watson_face's review
3.0
It is a chapter version of [b:Avengers: The Movie Storybook|13576680|Avengers The Movie Storybook|Scott Peterson|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nocover/60x80.png|19159427] with less pictures and more dialogue. I have a feeling it was written before the final draft of the Avengers movie since the events play out a bit differently. It’s a quick refresher of how the Avengers Initiative is born, chock full of all the jokes we know and love.
stellar_raven's review
2.0
This...was not at all what I thought it was going to be. I thought it was a junior novelization of the movie, but it wasn't. It was more an amalgamation of the stand alone movies leading up to The Avengers...with heavy emphasis on Iron Man/Iron Man 2 and Thor. Only the last 30 or so pages take place during The Avengers movie timeline, but even that's off**.
The problem with trying to tell the events of six movies in 167 pages is that you lose so much of what makes these movies great to begin with. Gone is the humor, the depth, and the great characterization. And while I appreciate the effort the author took in trying to put the events of the movies in sequence, it did make the story a little stilted at times as we jumped from one character to another and back again. None of our heroes (or their villain) got the page time they deserved, with poor Hawkeye really getting the shaft.
The 16 pages of color pictures was a nice bonus, though.
**While there were a few slight differences between events of the stand alone movies and what was told in this book, by the time the story moved to the events at the start of The Avengers, things were really off. It makes me wonder if the author based this story off an early version of the screenplay or something. I was actually going to list a few of them, but there's just so many.
The way the book ends is pretty abrupt too. The final scene takes place after
I just...I don't know quite what to make of this book.
The problem with trying to tell the events of six movies in 167 pages is that you lose so much of what makes these movies great to begin with. Gone is the humor, the depth, and the great characterization. And while I appreciate the effort the author took in trying to put the events of the movies in sequence, it did make the story a little stilted at times as we jumped from one character to another and back again. None of our heroes (or their villain) got the page time they deserved, with poor Hawkeye really getting the shaft.
The 16 pages of color pictures was a nice bonus, though.
**While there were a few slight differences between events of the stand alone movies and what was told in this book, by the time the story moved to the events at the start of The Avengers, things were really off. It makes me wonder if the author based this story off an early version of the screenplay or something. I was actually going to list a few of them, but there's just so many.
The way the book ends is pretty abrupt too. The final scene takes place after
Spoiler
Loki has been placed in the cell on the helicarrier. It's said that Coulson calls in to say that Hawkeye, Selvig and the Tesseract have all been found and with Loki in captivity, the effect of the brainwashing were wearing off.I just...I don't know quite what to make of this book.
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