Title: Better than the first, but ...
Product review: As with the first book by Cover, part of the reason it's so good is that he's parroting the Graphic Novel by J. Michael Stracynski, practically word-for-word. The first third of the novel is additional material covering the nine years after the big events in the previous books, on the anniversary of The Surge, and the climactic battle that caused it. Frankly I feel that a book could have been dedicated to each year in between, fleshing out some of the characters (and perhaps focusing on some of the lesser known characters -- this is a HUGE ensemble starting at the beginning with 113 "specials"). Once we get to the 10th Anniversary, Cover starts parroting Stracynski's work again, and there is very little additional information, and again we might as well have just read the Graphic Novel.
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