I'm rating this a 4 out of 5 as it does a good job of capturing the plot lines of the film and clarified a few points for me that I missed while watching it. A few times there was the sense that perhaps the novelization was based on a early script rather than the finished film as some touches were missing. I'm not talking about anything major, I mean little things like the scene with the orphan boy drawing bat symbols with chalk that was in the trailer and in the final film but is not mentioned in the novelization. It was interesting to read in writer Greg Cox's afterward that he was away from home in Burbank during the writing which makes you picture him securely locked in a room from which the script cannot be removed in order to protect plot security.