** spoiler alert ** 
 It's the novelisation of a popular movie, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens is exactly what it says on the tin. If you're looking for additional lore or expansive insight into the new parts of the galaxy that Abrams included for the watchers of Star Wars VII, you will be left putting down this book disappointed - it keeps rigidly to the events of the movie (for the most part), with even the dialogue parroting most of what the actors involved say themselves. 
 I did find some of the additional information interesting, such as how Poe managed to survive and subsequently leave Jakku and the handful of new lines shared between Han and Leia, but it was overall a boring scene-by-scene summary only brightened by occasional colourful prose. This was only a strong book because of the story-telling of the movie, and therefore I don't feel it earned a strong score in its own right as a novel.