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A review by sinamile
The Chronicles of Riddick by Alan Dean Foster
4.0
CW/TW: death, murder, blood, graphic violence, gore, genocide, intimate partner abuse, beheading/decapitation, imprisonment, ableist slurs, sexual harassment, attempted rape, mention of past rape, suicide
Can't tell you what was up with book one coz I ended up not being a fan of that nonsense (Noah Fence). But this one was so much better, mostly because it stuck closer to the movie while also giving us so much more backstory.
At the beginning I was heartbroken and was lowkey annoyed because the book was not at all going the way the movie went. Like I didn't know what was going on, didn't know who some of the characters were, and worse there was mention of a character that either died in the first book or was only supposed to show up in the next one and I was confusion!
But then the boom kept going and lo and behold, it got amazing, just like the movie. Alan Dean Foster stayed as close to the movie as possible and I appreciate that so much! My favourite scenes weren't cut or changed so much I couldn't recognise them and even the dialogue was saved here.
AND some of the awkward dialogue from the movie was made better here, was more hashed out and realistic. I really like what Alan Dean Foster did with this book, like that I could've watched the movie as I read and everything would've followed.
And ALSO some of the scenes were expanded on and given more backstory, which I really liked and appreciated. No real, Alan Dean Foster did an amazing job with novelizing the movie that he actually made me love it more. Like, The Chronicles of Riddick is probably my number 1 or number 2 (it changes depending on the mood, sometimes TCoR is number one, sometimes it's Riddick. So) favourite movie, and Alan Dean Foster just made me love it even more. I'm relieved.
I really enjoyed this, as well as the writing, so hallelujah to that!
Can't tell you what was up with book one coz I ended up not being a fan of that nonsense (Noah Fence). But this one was so much better, mostly because it stuck closer to the movie while also giving us so much more backstory.
At the beginning I was heartbroken and was lowkey annoyed because the book was not at all going the way the movie went. Like I didn't know what was going on, didn't know who some of the characters were, and worse there was mention of a character that either died in the first book or was only supposed to show up in the next one and I was confusion!
But then the boom kept going and lo and behold, it got amazing, just like the movie. Alan Dean Foster stayed as close to the movie as possible and I appreciate that so much! My favourite scenes weren't cut or changed so much I couldn't recognise them and even the dialogue was saved here.
AND some of the awkward dialogue from the movie was made better here, was more hashed out and realistic. I really like what Alan Dean Foster did with this book, like that I could've watched the movie as I read and everything would've followed.
And ALSO some of the scenes were expanded on and given more backstory, which I really liked and appreciated. No real, Alan Dean Foster did an amazing job with novelizing the movie that he actually made me love it more. Like, The Chronicles of Riddick is probably my number 1 or number 2 (it changes depending on the mood, sometimes TCoR is number one, sometimes it's Riddick. So) favourite movie, and Alan Dean Foster just made me love it even more. I'm relieved.
I really enjoyed this, as well as the writing, so hallelujah to that!