Force Awakens Star Wars Reviews Summary

Writing Style

Pros:

• "This novel of the screenplay was well done."
• "Best audiobook I have listened to in a while."
• "Alan Dean Foster is a masterful writer who has transformed many movies into novels."
• "Mr. Foster is at his best when it comes to adding and fleshing out movie scripts."
• "The writing is hopeful and energetic, something that Star Wars has done so well."
• "It's great his classic touch has returned to the universe with Ep VII."
• "Alan Dean Foster was the perfect choice for writing this book."

Cons:

• "The writing was a bit too technical; I would have loved at least a little prose."
• "The writing is turgid. Even the action sequences are devoid of excitement."
• "It’s hard to use anything in this book to support an argument when there’s so much that is flawed and wrong."
• "It fills in some extra detail but the quality of the writing and editing is pretty disappointing."
• "The only reason I bothered to read this was the faint hope that it would fill in some of the back story."
• "The author manages to use words I've never heard before that destroys the reading experience."
• "This book suffers greatly from an inappropriate use of difficult vocabulary words."

Adaptation & Detail

Pros:

• "If you enjoyed the movie, do yourself a favor and pick up this book."
• "This was a good read. I wish they had put some of the bonus content into the movie."
• "This is a pretty standard novelization of the movie, although it is not a word-for-word reprint of the movie."
• "In the book you really get to know the characters a lot better and see what makes them tick."
• "The internal reveries of the characters, combined with additional details missing from the final edit of the film really help flesh out the story."
• "This novelization stands with the best Star Wars literature from the last near-forty years."
• "This book does a good job of complimenting the movie AND filling in gaps that were left out of the movie."

Cons:

• "Boring, maybe a bit more verbose than the movie."
• "There's no emotional tone to the book at all, the characters are wooden, and the descriptive writing is lackluster at best."
• "Del Rey apparently has some booking binding quality control problems. The entire picture section in the book is bound upside down."
• "He switches between multiple character's internal dialog multiple times in a paragraph without noticeable breaks."
• "Most of the photos are stills taken from the trailers so they don't add much."
• "The novelization has much of the same excitement, but it lacks some of the sheer amazement of a big-screen experience."
• "The novelization managed to turn a blockbuster movie into a lifeless, limp mess."

Recommendation & Enjoyment

Pros:

• "I would recommend this book to anyone, especially star wars fans."
• "If you love Star Wars you will probably have this, I think the extra bits make it a worthwhile read and a bit more in depth character stuff is all good stuff."
• "It is absolutely worth the time to read."
• "I lived the movie and have seen it more than once. I definitely lived the book because it filled in the little holes."
• "I could re-read it several times, and probably will."
• "Love this movie and it was helpful reading the book to get more insight into the characters."
• "This is a really good book. I like the part when Rey and Finn 'steal' the Millennium Falcon."

Cons:

• "If you're thinking about it, don't bother."
• "I wasn't very thrilled by 'The Force Awakens'; the movie was extraordinarily sub-par compared to the saga's other installations."
• "I cannot suggest anyone to buy this book unless it's for collecting purposes or to have an example of how to not write a good story."
• "It’s hard to accept this book as canon when so much of it is wrong."
• "If you had any questions about why characters acted as they did in the film, you won't find answers in this book."
• "The book could have been interesting and exciting but it fell short."
• "The greed of Disney is very disappointing. I have stopped buying Star Wars Novels as Disneys' greed and short sightedness is very sad."