Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

Yup, I'm gonna go with Frenzy, because him getting beheaded amuses me.   

As for this?   It's a bit better than the previous offering, so one star for bringing the sexy of Cybertronians, one star for improving, one star for competent writing in that sentences were strung together properly.   

However, everything amusing comes from the script.   This novelization doesn't really add anything, especially not as far as character motivation or getting into their head.   In addition, one of the lines about Bee not lubricating on Simmons - immature, and I'm embarrassed to admit it amuses me when reading it - and doesn't really add extra scenes worth noticing since novelizations tend to be written from earlier versions of the script.   

Still, Barricade chasing Bee?

That scene was there, and it's one of my favorites.   I always imagine it ends differently, but the scene as written - or seen - always is enough to please me greatly.   

Even with the increased competency, and the scenes I love being done okay-ish, this really could be improved.  Everything I felt?   I felt because I'd seen the movie, I think.   There was little here to evoke that Foster added himself, and Jazz's death in particular was a let-down, as it was far too quick, and too unemotional, to evoke, well, anything.   

Another scene that was completely botched was the fight scene at the end.  I know it's convoluted in the movie, but it's at least as twice as confusing in the book.   It's all over the place, and skips from one place to another, with no breaks or anything - it just jumps from one scene/head to another.   

I'll read the next two, and Dark of the Moon is, thankfully, done by Peter David, but I'm not incredibly happy with this novelization.