I give some credit to Mike here. He tried to introduce a new character to take Venom over. However, he failed to give us a character we can like.

Venom isn't a easy character to nail. When he's the main character it's even harder. So far only Rick's run on Agent Venom really worked for me. So this story is about Lee, who gets to try on the venom suit. Instead of a internal struggle with who takes over who it's a physical one half the time with Lee able to hold off Venom with ease. It's pretty stupid as Spider-man, a extremely super powered superhero had trouble doing this. Even more so it just becomes a flat story about betrayal and who's going to cross who.

Good: The idea of it is cool. I also liked that since Venom had been a hero so long he doesn't want to do bad anymore.

Bad: The dialog ranges from okay to bad. The fight scenes are extremely underwhelming. Lee is a boring one dimensional character. The storyline itself is poor and cliche as could be good.

Overall venom isn't worth much of your time. It's not the worst book I read but it's pretty uninspiring. I can't give it over a 2.