I would only recommend this book to people who have already seen the movie. The book obviously does not capture the epicness of the movie.I am obsessed with Pacific Rim. Obsessed. It is not my kind of movie at all: action adventure with a predominantly male cast. Alas, I love it.The actual writing of this book was basic. I imagine it's hard to take a script and try to write a book around it, especially a story of this caliber. These kind of characters are better in the flesh than on the page.Nevertheless, the book gave me some better understanding of the characters and of the Jaeger program and its history. So, it was worth it. to start off, I absolutley loved the movie so it's not a lie when I say that I was a bit wary about purchasing this book. One of the main reason why I did buy the novelization was because I fell so completely in love with the story and the characters and just the pacific rim universe overall (so much so that I bought the graphic novel as well) my expectations for this book were blown out of the water. while it had it's questionable moments, there were just so many things that made the questionable stuff a bit more irrelevant. you get so much more background on the characters and different events that you are just briefed on in the movie. It's as simple as this: if you loved the movie there is a good chance you will love the book too.
Better than expected. I suppose I should see the film now.
—mellorine
Longer review to come. But, bottom line? Not enough Mako.
—cassapula
I loved the movie, and the book is even better.:-D
—grace
[Review Forthcoming]
—jelgirl
DNF.
—jazz
