I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.
This is supposedly the ultimate guide to the Revenge of the Fallen universe. Which is ridiculous. Two pages for the whole civil war, one page on Sam, and one on the other human allies? Not to mention other than the two page layout on the civil war, this is a character guide. I was expecting much, much more given the title!
However, it is a decent character guide. Other than a couple embarrassing errors - a word missing from a sentence, a complete and utter lack of understanding of what happened when Bee landed on Earth - it's pretty decent. It gives us a good sense of who's who, and their technical abilities, and personalities. The one other gripe I had was how powerful Optimus Prime is - strength level 10 - while the Fallen is 5+. Seeing as the descriptions of his abilities make him seem more powerful than Optimus Prime, that seems unlikely.
Still, this is mostly pictures, with little tidbits and details about the characters and who they are, where they came from, and what they're like as well as their abilities, on and off the battlefield. The pictures are nice enough that I'm thinking about getting a banged up, used copy for a couple dollars since I took this out of the library.