If it’s not in the movie, it’s not in the goddamn movie.

I don’t get the point of this. The novel and movie stand on their own merits, plain and simple. Bad movie do not get excused by prose after the fact.

Folks, I’m gonna say something, and it’s this: IMO this book is pretty bad. I would only recommend it to a dedicated completionist who simply can’t bear to leave any stone unturned, or maybe to people who will simply always prefer books to movies.

HERE is a nice and legal link to some of it.

And here is my take from a post in the dying days of kbin.social. I have read more of it than I had then (probably about a quarter to a third of it), and if the trudge of the plot is often workmanlike enough, I stand by what I said for the passages that are trotted out as something special, but they are not. If anything, they’re the worst parts of it. It’s a work-for-hire adaption of a script that is the worst part of a mediocre movie, one that commits most of the same watchability sins as AOTC. Stover didn’t have much to work with, and maybe sensing that, he overplayed his hand stylistically.

The Darth Plagueis novel also added a ton of context to The Phantom Menace for me. It’s a long history of Palpatine and Plagueis that goes all the way up to the Battle of Naboo, so it really feels like you can see clearly Plagueis’ influence on Palpatine and his scheming. If I remember correctly, Luceno even does a couple of the scenes from the movie, with way more detail. I rewatched it after finishing the book and got a lot more out of it.

I haven’t read the novelization’s of those movies since they came out but I remember feeling the same way about the novelization of Attack of the Clones, it added so much more depth and feeling to Anikin’s feeling towards the loss of his mother and his budding relationship with Padme.