The force awakens

STAR WARS SPOILERS

I enjoyed this book. It was not quite as good as the novelization for Episode III (Which was so much better than the actual film), but did an excellent job.

It followed the movie very closely and didn't extrapolate very deeply into the characters, however it does add some additional context scenes that we don't see in the movie. Most notably, we see some introduction scenes with Leia, and get more context and insight into the resistance, and details about the Hosnian system. We also get the story of how Poe gets off Jakku.

Additionally, the scenes don't play out 100% like they do in the movie, some are better some worse. The best of which provides much better information about my largest story issue within the movie, namely how R2D2 has the remaining map fragments needed to find Luke. It doesn't fix it completely, but goes a long way for fixing the plot issues surrounding that mcguffin.