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sensorglitch's review against another edition
3.0
This book is definitely worth reading. It provides inner dialogue and thoughts to characters, and definitely puts a new perspective on the movie. It will never be mistaken for a classic, but I very much enjoyed it.
charlie_x's review against another edition
2.0
I loved the film. I really disliked this book. It was just so... boring.
I don't know how you manage to make such an exciting film boring but this guy did it. The writing is so monotonous I ended up skim reading just to get to my favourite scenes from the film to see the added insights. If I hadn't have watched the film before reading this book I probably would have disliked all the characters because they all became so dull.
2 stars purely because I found the few bits of character insight that we didn't see in the film interesting.
I don't know how you manage to make such an exciting film boring but this guy did it. The writing is so monotonous I ended up skim reading just to get to my favourite scenes from the film to see the added insights. If I hadn't have watched the film before reading this book I probably would have disliked all the characters because they all became so dull.
2 stars purely because I found the few bits of character insight that we didn't see in the film interesting.
becs_l's review against another edition
5.0
The book doesn't give you a massive amount of extra detail but enough to make it worth reading. For me, this book was a great reminder of how much I loved this movie, and gives me the opportunity to highlight all the important dialogue and scenes so that my theory-creating brain can go wild for Episode VIII !!!
ladysamxoxo's review against another edition
5.0
Yeah yeah, I know, big shock for me right? I mean, if you KNOW me that is. Because let’s face it: Star Wars is the shit, am I right? And The Force Awakens blew everyone out of the WATER! So the big question is: how does the novelization of the movie measure up? Because the movie HAS to be better right?
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merc_birb's review against another edition
1.0
DNF at Page 39. I don't think I've ever put a book down so early. I seriously COULD NOT force myself to read this purple-prose mess. It wasn't the content, I adored the movie and was really looking forward to reading insight into the characters I've grown fond of. But Mr. Foster's writing style is so flowery, so 19th century, that is was absolute torture to read. I didn't even realize it was possible to make a fight scene sound so boring or characters so utterly unrelatable, even going into it knowing what they SHOULD be like. My disappointment might have been so extreme because I saw the movie first, or maybe because I went into this book with such lofty expectations (like assuming the fights scenes would actually have action and not dull events the author can skip right over).
It's possible that this is just an example of how Mr. Foster writes, I've never read any of his other books. If so, I'll gladly continue to remain ignorant.
It's possible that this is just an example of how Mr. Foster writes, I've never read any of his other books. If so, I'll gladly continue to remain ignorant.
laceydbell's review against another edition
2.0
Love the story, but the writing is terrible. I will continue to let these stories be told in film rather than in book format.
ericmppaq's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
jonwesleyhuff's review against another edition
3.0
I don't read a lot of novelizations of movies. But I've been a BIT obsessed with The Force Awakens. This is a fun novel to read for the bits that didn't make it into the movie. A few things are clarified here and there because of it. The downside is that there's more dialogue than in the movie (not sure if this is Foster's embellishment or deleted dialogue from the script) and often that dialogue can be awkward or over explanatory. Also, Finn and Rey don't really have the charm on the page that they do in the movie. But this is minor stuff. Overall, it was a fun read.
nbhatta's review against another edition
4.0
Some nice additional detail that wasn't in the movies, certain things become more or less ambiguous.
hstapp's review against another edition
2.0
This book is told in the voice of the author, not in the voices of the characters. This makes it hard to really form any connection of the characters. Especially when the author drops in old-fashioned sci-fi commentary (AKA Dad Jokes) into peoples perspectives that that character wouldn't necessarily have. Most of this problem is either contained at the beginning of the book, or I just got used to it as I went along. I did actively notice one in the later section of the book, so I probably just started glossing over them.
Though I didn't enjoy Splinter of the Mind's Eye and the first Star Wars book is just basically the movie, I don't think that the voice is necessarily Foster's fault. He was probably given the script and strict guidelines to follow, so the author's voice might not be his. It could well be the script writer's voices.
I found the discrepancies between the book and movie interesting. I thought that they would try to keep the book exactly the same as the movie, so as to provide a clear canon, since they decanonized the Expanded Universe to unmuddy the waters.
Though I didn't enjoy Splinter of the Mind's Eye and the first Star Wars book is just basically the movie, I don't think that the voice is necessarily Foster's fault. He was probably given the script and strict guidelines to follow, so the author's voice might not be his. It could well be the script writer's voices.
I found the discrepancies between the book and movie interesting. I thought that they would try to keep the book exactly the same as the movie, so as to provide a clear canon, since they decanonized the Expanded Universe to unmuddy the waters.