Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron: The Junior Novel (Marvel's the Avengers: Age of Ultron) by Chris Wyatt

Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron: The Junior Novel (Marvel's the Avengers: Age of Ultron) Reviews

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  Suzzie

  Yeah…I’m one of those Marvel & DC fans that get way too into the characters and battles. I liked reliving Age of Ultron for a couple hours. Now I have to go to my Vudu and watch the movie again for more times than I care to admit online!
  
  My quick and simple overall: fun and quick read.
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  Ivy

  5 🌟
  
  The movie novelization was very good. Liked that the team was together again. Glad they were able to stop Hydra. Hope they will be able to stop Ultron. Wish that the novelization was for the whole movie. Looking forward to seeing the Avengers again.
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  Patty

  Source: Library
  
  At the time that I requested this from my library I didn't realize it was a "Junior Novel", I saw Avengers and I automatically requested it. However, this was really a disappointment.
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  Rick Silva

  The Kiddo's cousin loaned this to him. They're both fans of all things MCU, so he was excited to check it out. I read it aloud to him.
  
  Apparently, "Junior Novel" means "contains less than half of the story".
  
  This does do a nice job of fleshing out some details and giving some interesting insights into the film, but the writing on the action sequences felt flat, and there was a lot of tell-rather-than-show.
  
  The book ended in what felt like a very awkward spot in the movie plot, and the epilogue that was really just a summary of the next scene, which there wasn't room to include, didn't help matters.
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  Indah Threez Lestari

  62 - 2021
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  Dale

  Where is the other half of this book? (A review of the audiobook)
  
  Published by Marvel Press and Blackstone Audio on April 10 of 2015.
  Read by Tom Taylorson
  Duration: 1 hour, 34 minutes.
  Unabridged.
  
  This is my third audiobook of a junior novelization of a movie from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They adhere closely to the movies, have all been well-read, easy to listen to and, on the whole, quite enjoyable.
  
  But, this one is troubling because it only covers half of the movie. Literally, this audiobook is about half of the length of the other audiobooks as well. If you have seen the movie, it only goes to the fight scene in the ship that is being harvested for scrap metal and it alludes to the Iron Man/Hulk fight scene. That's it.
  
  Up to that point, it's an enjoyable audiobook. Reader Tom Taylorson does a very good job with the different voices of the Avengers, especially Thor. He also does an especially good job with the voice of Ultron - sometimes he sounds exactly like James Spader who voices him in the movie.
  
  The problem is that this is only half of the movie is in this audiobook.
  
  It probably stems from the fact that...
  
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  Kimberly R

  As Tony Stark said in that scene in Iron Man 3, when the rest of his suit was delayed in getting from Tennessee to Florida, "where's the rest?!?!"
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  John Michael Strubhart

  While I am more a fan of DC Comics, I must say that Marvel Studios has frequently outdone DC and Warner Brothers Studios with their respective franchises. Where Marvel does not shine is in movie novelizations. I enjoy movie novelizations because there are no issues with mumbling actors and ambiguous cinematography. This novel, written for youngsters, reads like a series of facebook posts. There are more exclamation points than I could count and the scene depictions are very dry. There is very little insight into the characters, their thoughts and their feelings. Basically, Mr. Wyatt wrote down what he saw on the screen and heard on the speakers. I do like the attractive layout and format of the book and the movie stills are a plus. However, personally, I would never recommend this book to a young reader - I don't care how bored he or she is with reading. I don't think it would encourage reading at all. The best thing I can say about this book is that the hardcover version is less expensive than the kindle version, it's pretty and would look nice on a bookshelf and I now know all the dialogue despite mumbling actors.
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  Simon

  Written in a much milder way than the visual portrayal of the film, though the dialogue was nearly exact. I enjoy Ultron's characterization, his ability to be sharp with wit and dry unamused humor while ammassing the means to be this global threat and only able to be defeated by the combined efforts of the Avengers and the Supernatural forces of other dimensions and worlds through the physicalization of Vision and Jarvis melding together.
  
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  Realityruinedmylife

  A book that I could complete in one sitting. I liked the book a lot. I haven't watched the movie yet but the scenes have played out correctly and precisely in my mind. Everything from the fight scenes to the party scene.
  The author definitely kept the story on point without any extra and probably useless information. It was short and should I say crisp?
  Enjoyed it a lot. I am still not sure if I should watch the movie or not?
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  Kian Moe

  GREAT, BOOK. I love how this book is so descriptive. I picked up on a lot of things that I didn't in the movie... In fact i just got another book of this type today!!! "Captain America: The Winter Soldier". I recommend this book to anyone with even a tiny interest in Marvel or DC or superheroes...READ THIS!!!
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  Sarah

  A very crap movie novel. Yes, it expanded on a few scenes and characters but honestly, it skipped over so much and to make it even worse, ended on a cliffhanger. It doesn't even cover the second half of the movie!
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  Christina

  This was okay. I felt it could have been better. As an adult of 24 I had trouble getting into it because it just felt slow. If it feels slow to me then how are kids and teens going to feel. It could have been better. It didn't have much emotion or feel to it and it did the movie no justice.
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  The Brothers

  Asher (11yo) read. "Really cool. I really want to watch the movie."
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  Chara's Craftsations

  2.5 It's only half of the story.
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  Roger Walker

  Doesnt end where the movie ends... These Marvel junior novels don't do justice to the novelizations genre...
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  Rayjan Koehler

  Haven't watched the movie or anything- so can't accurately compare it. However I find this to be a well written Junior Novel.
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  Alex Shrugged

  This is a book for young teens. The writing is competent. The story is quick. No modesty problems that I recall.
  
  I will not read this book again.
  
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  anna

  why do the marvel junior novels only have half of the movie-
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  aCupcakeBlonde

  WHY ARE THESE ONLY HALF THE STORY???
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  Bill Molchany

  A great addition to the Marvel series.
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  Jay DeMoir

  Disappointed.
  This didn’t even cover the whole film
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  A. Nixon

  This was an interesting read. Now, I've seen the movie so it was nice to recognize some of my favourite lines and moments of the movie as being in this book.
  
  I would have liked if the story covered more of the movie but I understand that it needed to be shortened so it wasn't intimitating to younger readers (there is a lot in the movie!). I think this could easily be "part 1" to have a second or longer book that covers the whole movie. That said, it sums it all up nicely and ends at a good point.
  
  I do love how the author referred to the characters as their codenames (and Maria Hill as "Hill") because that just makes so much more sense. And Black Widow is appropriately bad-ass! Lovely to see.
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  Holli

  I liked it okay, but it was really meh. It's an incomplete story, leaving the reader hanging. Novelizations of movies are supposed to be this very thing: the movie in novel form. With the beginning, middle, and end of the movie they are supposed to be from. I've read enough of them to know that's how they go. They might not necessarily follow the movie exactly, but they are complete. This book was a disappointment to the extreme.
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  Mya

  I loved this book! But...I didn't think it was much like the movie. The book skipped almost half of the movie witch I was upset about. It also skipped a lot of the action. It made me so sad when Hawkeye got shot! Then he got better, so I wash happy again. The book talks a lot about when the Avengers are fighting Pietro, Wanda, and Hydra. Not when they are fighting Ultron.
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  Sagan

  4yo was really disappointed it ends at the middle of the movie. There is no indication in the blurb it's only half a story.
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  Marty

  It was very good just didn't complete the whole story, it ends weirdly. But overall pretty well done.
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  Melissa

  I really don't understand why this book doesn't finish the story, but what I read was really good, really close to the movie. Too bad it's not complete.
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  Rosie

  The WORST junior novel I had come across and I've read a few of these over the years. Originally thought that they might write from Ultron's POV. But no. Terrible. Avoid. Donated my copy to charity.