I have officially read the best novelization of a movie in existence. Not only does it erase the continuity errors in the actual movie, it gives the reader insight to some of the characters you would't even think about or sympathize. Right in the second chapter we're thrown into a third person view of one of the major villains, read about the fighting forms that normal viewers of the movie would not even consider, and ALL the characters mentioned so far in two chapters got deepened more that a certain three movie prequels could ever hope to accomplish.
Revenge Of The Sith's novelization by Matthew Stover is a masterpiece. I have finished reading, and I am both blessed and not okay. I may have gotten misty-eyed. More than once. Actually, forget that, Immolation Scene (the Order 66 theme) was playing during Anakin and Obi-Wan's battle through my headphones and I actually cried. The last time I actually cried over a fictional character from good writing was Snape.
The cheesy lines scattered throughout the rest of the movie are gone. Kapoof. Vanished. Count Dooku just rose about fifty spots in my favorite Star Wars character list because of that lightsaber combat analyzation. Everyone gets extra lines that feel way more natural and are just so CLEVER, and they should've been in the movie, honestly (but they're not, because I Don't Like Sand [George Lucas can't write normal dialogue]). Grievous is as creepy and badass as he is in the 2003 Clone Wars Samurai Jack-style animation. A surprise, but a welcome one, considering the main complaint fans have about Grievous is that "wow he's weak in ROTS wtf".
Also, the "this is" bits for the characters in certain moments are absolutely golden. 10000/10 extremely fine writing. What I aspire to be.
