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This is a decent, but not awe-inspiring, contender for Canada Reads. It was readable and sufficiently interesting to keep my attention. I am sure that it will not win Canada Reads, but should make it past the first round.

By far, the most enjoyable book of the series. I had some difficulty trying to figure out if I liked the first book since it focused so much on the angsty teen crap. This one left all of that behind and zeroed in on going on weird adventures. I have no idea how Grossman thinks up this stuff. He has a fantastic imagination. I hope that there is some sort of follw-up to this, whether it is another book (or trilogy) or movie.

This is a well-written account of everything that happened behind the scenes at Marvel Comics. I had no idea that so many of the company's employees, including some legends, were treated so poorly. Although there is a huge cast, the book is always understandable. I am not a regular comic reader (unlike when I was a kid), but I still enjoyed the book.

Even better than the first! I really like the characters. In fact, I think that I enjoyed the book so much because the audiobook narrator did such a fantastic job. Thankfully, not many people at my local library listen to audiobooks, so I can usually get popular ones quite quickly.

I would have enjoyed the first book in the series more had I not figured out what the ending was going to be 20% in. The second book was even better. I'm really enjoying the series and can't wait to read book #3. I'm taking a bit of a break to read the Silkworm by J.K. Rowling (writing under alias Robert Galbraith), which seems to be a very similar style book (with a similar hero) in my mind.

5 stars for the book itself. 3 stars for the audiobook version. All of the voice actors (who are pretty much all big names) phoned it in and sounded as if they were just reading from a script. Yes, they were reading from a script, but actors are supposed to make the roles come to life. The lame acting in the audiobook version was extremely distracting, but the book itself was excellent.

I didn't care about any of the characters. There was not a single decent human being anywhere in the book. In fact, they were all so unlikable that I actually enjoyed when bad things happened to them. I don't think that this was the author's intention.

I've read worse books, though, so it gets three stars from me.

What a fascinating page out of spy history! I hope that the real story gets made into a movie at some point, not the garbage that was already very loosely made from this book.