2.75
adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Not bad for movie novelizations, but both stories make some strange amendments and omissions, particularly to the dialogue. I know this is really just nit-picky, but a lot of the lines are said by different characters than in the movies, and some iconic lines are changed for no discernible reason (i.e. Venkman's "we came, we saw, we kicked its ass!" line). Additionally, the first novelization was weirdly anti-Egon and made him out to be this awkward, asexual creature as if he doesn't literally canonically sleep with slime in the name of science in Ghostbusters II. Winston is, as usual, sidelined, although seemingly even more than in the films. One thing I really liked, though, is how the novelization of the second movie expanded more on the Ray-Vigo possession subplot. Good, clean, Ghost-busting fun.