Title: A letdown
Product review: It's hard to say exactly where this novelization goes wrong, as a feeling of 'wrongness' permeates the bulk of the novel. There are good parts that stand out, but only because the rest of the writing feels sub-standard.Ironically, part of this is due to what could arguably be one of the novel's pros. DeCandido obviously did his research, as the book is filled with an impressive ammount of references to the TV series. However, this also serves to intensify the problem that there's little inovation in the story. The characters feel two-dimensional, the narrative feels like a copy and paste effort of the movie. Granted, there are events that we don't see on the big screen, but there's a noticable lack of innovation. It was as if guidelines were applied from the start that couldn't be deviated from.The book can be read without seeing the movie and vice-versa. But given the similarity between the two, they don't really complement each other.
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