I found the Aftermath trilogy a bit like Tolkien. The prose was a particular cadence that was impenetrable until your brain made the switchover, and then it just flowed along like a roller-coaster. When I finished the first one and there wasn't any more story, I felt like I had suddenly come to the edge of a cliff when I was expecting solid ground. So I waited until Empire's End was out, and read the next two in one go. Got to the end and still wanted there to be more story. At least, unlike LotR, once I'm done I'm not speaking in Middle-Earth dialect for the next week while my brain tries to return to normal... But I do want to see how it goes from where we left it after the Battle of Jakku, to the situation in Bloodline. How the First Order got set up, where Sloane is, where all the other Star Destroyers are, where their cental planet is, et cetera, et cetera.
--Jonah