I read one of her books quite a few years back because I loved the idea of a Clone trooper squad having their own personalities. This was back before Clone Wars. I didn't like the book.
That's fair. I liked the Republic Commando series, but a few felt there was quite a bit of Author Soapboxing about how the Jedi Order had lost their collective way, etc., etc., even as it deftly retcon-patched some of the pre-Prequel Trilogy bits (such as Callista Masana and her pre-Purge memories or Fenn Shysa from the vintage Marvel Comics Mandalore arc) and gave us an NCO's-eye view of the Clone Wars to complement the views we'd gotten on screen.
I do feel she was done a bit dirty by LFL, but licensed writing is regrettably prone to such things. It usually doesn't happen in close-to-real-time though. Hopefully she hasn't had to deal with shorted residuals as some other Legends EU writers have post-Disney-acquisition.
Anyway, I'm not here to beat on Filoni (though I bring up his Mandalore arc as a caution that we shouldn't assume he can do no wrong). That said, I do miss Kal Skirata, as much as he'd just like to be left alone out of history's way I think he'd be a good source of advice for the younger Kryze. (Shysa, of course, would be off to Tatooine to try to recruit the Son of Jango -- although given his chaotic rise in the fringe he might be a more controversial figure than before.)
