Transformers: Dark of the Moon Mass Market Paperback – 24 May 2011

I loved reading this book so much, it's written extremely well, is very descriptive and manages to invoke the necessary emotions (humour, sadness, fear etc)Highly recommended to any Transformers Fan

This novel is a great complement to watching the film, it fills in some of the plot holes and has some key scenes that were cut out of the movie. The twins are in it and it explains what happened to them. Highly recommended for any Transformer fan, a great read and well worth picking up.

Bought this as a present for my son's friend. His friend was lucky to receive it as my son really wanted it. The pop ups are good and it is an easy to read story.

Ok, this is the latest TF movie script adapted into a novel, the story, besides the good vs evil , bah, bah, bah, the 1960s space race was a cover up for an alien space ship crash landing on the moon, onboard is the Autobot legend, Sentinal prime, AKA Optimus prime and Megatron's mentor from the days before the war when they were brothers (see IDW comics prequals for more details)!Anyway the story covers what should be the film with a few differnces I suspect, there is two main plot lines, the first one follows Sam and his new girlfriend Carly with two small TFs called Wheelie and Brains, Mekia, dumped Sam because she had her life put endanger once to offen (TFM07 & ROTF for more details in regards to the threats she's faced)(Wheelie is the small blue remote control pickup truck from ROTF, AKA the one who tried to have some strange form of sex with Mekia's leg, while Brains is a whole new robot but not very talkative unlike his partner, Wheelie). The other plot thread follows the Autobots and the US Army secert divison known only as NEST, as the story unfolds, the Autobots find a piece of tech in Chernobyl, (conspiracy throey?) while on a mission and from there, they go to the moon to see what is there exactly and find Sentinal prime, evenly bring him back to earth and reviving him with the Matrix of leadership and bringing some pillars that create the mass transmist system known as space birdge (G1 homage in name only).Over all a chunk of the story is a bit of a rerun of a G1 muitipart story with a lot differences and throw ins from other eps, there is mutable refernces not only to the show but the comics as well, mainly the Dreamwave comics first mini series. The so called Villan of the film, Shockwave, isn't really the main villan, just the one used for adverts but the story does take a intersting twist, you'll have to read the book or watch the movie to find out what the twist is!I'm not keen on Sam's story in this book, a lot of it fills as if it was writen to pad out the story more and try and keep the human element in the film, but really, the story is meant to be about the robots known to us as Transformers fighting their war here on earth after it escalated across the galaxy, there is a point in the story where all hope seems lost for humans, but I'm not going into detail about that you'll have to read the book to find out what that point is.Final thoughts:If your a major TF fan, then get this book, if your not a major fan or just a fan of the movies, I leave it to you to deside if you want to get it or not, the story does grip and it feels a lot better than the current TF show, Transformers prime, that's rather poor quailty (I won't go into detail on that and its my view on it, no one else's), it feels a bit better than ROTF, that film was a mess because it wasn't delayed during the writers strike, but it did come out with some good quotes that are ordinal and not just repeats of quotes from G1 movie 1986. This film, so, far there hasn't really been any memoriable quotes, at least in the book, but the film is a whole different ball game. Generally, I found this book to be quite gripping and I do recomended reading it at least once!

I bought this for my 5 year old and it's perfect for his age group. He can't read it himself, but loves the pop-ups of the various characters.

Marginally this is probably a better adaption of the film than the novelisations of its two predecessors. Although, perhaps, a bit slow at times in some of the earlier sections, this is a more energetic and enthused retelling that, for the most part, captures the onscreen atmosphere.The emphasis is still more on humans than the actual Transformers (more so than the films) and Sam is very much the main character in this novelisation, outweighing his screen time. A lot of the book comes from his perspective. However, he is portrayed as a lot less irritating than in the film and the participation of his parents is more subdued. Most of the human performances are toned down and less silly.There is also at least some effort at explaining the absence of Mikaela which wasn’t really touched upon onscreen and, basically, ignored.The main plus for this novelisation though is that it devotes some time to showing events from the point of view of the Transformers. It is done in a strange sort of way where the text gets bracketed or made italic when things come from their perspective. Even so, it does sort of work and provides some much-needed characterisation for some of those less focussed upon onscreen (I didn’t even realise that Wheeljack was in the film). This is of particular benefit to Soundwave and Shockwave, two of the best Transformers, who received very little attention onscreen.However, although I applaud the effort to provide various Transformers with some stronger characterisation this does result in a terrible error in one instance. Admittedly there has been a slight trend in later Transformers material, such as some of the IDW comic strips or the toy line linked ‘Prime Wars Trilogy’, to put an almost anti-hero spin on Megatron. But, even so, there is no way Megatron would speak or act as he does in the closing stages of this novel. It is utterly out of character despite him teaming up with Optimus to take out Sentinel. Megatron is successful as a villain because he is the ‘big bad’ evil incarnate with no redeeming or sympathetic features. That is why he is typically surrounded by more intricate villains such as Shockwave, Soundwave or Starscream, making that original Decepticon hierarchy so memorable. Besides, this is not a conversation that actually happened in the film and in no way fits in with the characterisation of Megatron across the film franchise either.

Frankly I bought this when I read Peter David one of my favourite writers did it and while I enjoyed his take on the story more then the films it's still not exactly gold. Sam still comes off as whiny but thankfully less so then the movie. Optimus and Lennox each get some point of view chapters which I enjoyed much more then Sam's and we also see shades in Sentinel of the wise and kind mentor Optimus speaks of which I welcomed but after that it's pretty much the same as the movie.Also after the first chapter it takes a few to take us to the modern day with the Autobots which seem to drag for a bit. The author also made a few small changes from the movie which I greatly enjoyed but he's still weighed down by alot from the actual film.