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After the sorry excuse that was Terry Bisson's novelization of The Fifth Element, X-Men by Kristine Kahthryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith is a breath of fresh air. Rusch and Smith do what I want movie novelizations to do: expand on the film's story by letting us know more about the characters' backstories and what they're thinking, and adding extra scenes. The added chapters near the end involving a Secret Service agent are quite interesting, and was one of the novel's elements I remembered fondly from when I first bought the book in 2000. I subsequently gave my copy to a friend and although I don't regret it, I missed it terribly and so it is nice to finally own it again. Kudos to Mrs. Rusch and Mr. Smith for their excellent novelization of the first film since Tim Burton's Batman in 1989 to make movie audiences take comic book films seriously. This is how to do a tie-in novel!Read full review