Rating: 
Summary: Quite Possibly The Greatest Book Of All Time!
Review: Rarely does such genius appear in such an unlikely venue! Writer DeCandido (with assistant Nieto) has managed to produce a book that shatters the super hero novel paradigm. This riveting mix of police action, science fiction, heroic fantasy and political thriller straddles its parent genres and comes close to creating its own. I only hope that DeCandido (and assistant Nieto) doesn't allow his own achievement to intimidate him. It's hard to imagine how he must feel, seated before a word processor and working on his next project, when his mind is filled with the challenge of equalling this masterpiece.Note that I said "equalling." He can never beat it, nor can anyone else. I don't believe that more skilled use of the English language is even possible.
Rating:
Summary: perfect
Review: the best spiderman book since the spiderman trilogy/x-men-spiderman trilogy.
Rating: 
Summary: Venom's Wrath: A Joke of Venom
Review: The story line was excellent but the way Venom was depicted was horrible. It portrayed Venom as a slow-minded fool who wasn't even human. Technically thats true since he's bonded with the alien but in all the other novels Venom is a very intelligent very dangerous being. What was with the author calling him the creature throughout the story, he's always referred to as Venom or the symbiote. He also spends most of his time being blasted to near incapacitation, which has never happened before, he's always gotten pounded on but it never really fazed him. He has written as too much of a wimp instead of being a fast, intelligent, dangerous, nut-case.
Rating: 
Summary: good, but the title is misleading
Review: This book should not be called "Venom's Wrath." Venom does appear, and he is angry, but the focus of the story is elsewhere. People expecting explosive fights between Spidey and Venom will be very disappointed. Unfortunately, the cover art and the back-cover blurb both focus on Venom, and wax enthusiastic about his violent tendencies and his role in the book, while DeCandido and Nieto present a police procedural that happens to involve superheroes. Imagine, for a second, that you're a police officer in the Marvel Universe. How would you feel about costumed superheroes? Especially one whose face you never see, whose voice is muffled, and who almost never stands and walks like a normal human being. One who interrupts crimes, leaving people webbed up with no evidence and no witnesses, then vanishes and lets you deal with the resulting mountains of paperwork. DeCandido and Nieto have asked those questions, and written a book about them. On Wednesday morning, three people are kidnapped: Joe Robertson, editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle; Frank Esteban, a police captain; and Ann Weying, Venom's ex-wife. There appears to be paranormal involvement, and Venom will almost certainly cause damage trying to find Ann. The police and Spidey work together, trying to crack the case, which soon involves the FBI and a group of Puerto Rican separatists who have turned to terrorism. It's nice to see that while Spidey has amazing luck with supervillains, he needs the help of the police for more realistic crimes; it's also refreshing to see Spidey from other points of view. It's very easy for readers to forget that most people in the Marvel Universe know nothing about him, since we know about Peter Parker, his job troubles, his family, and so on. To sum up, this is a good police story, and a good Spidey story. It is NOT a Venom story. If you read superhero comics for fights and explosions, this is not the book for you. On the other hand, if you like some thought put into your superheroes, along with a healthy appreciation of how silly it is for people to run around town in long underwear, you could do a lot worse than "Venom's Wrath." (I'm taking away a star for four reasons. First, there are a lot of police officers, and they can be hard to keep straight. Second, Venom's characterization is slightly off. Third, MJ isn't quite herself; she plays the policeman's faithful wife, though she does make a good point to Peter in the epilogue. And fourth, the cover and blurb attract people who will probably be disappointed by a lack of action, and drive away people who might like this as a police story and meditation on identity.)
Rating:
Summary: good, but the title is misleading
Review: This book should not be called "Venom's Wrath." Venom does appear, and he is angry, but the focus of the story is elsewhere. People expecting explosive fights between Spidey and Venom will be very disappointed. Unfortunately, the cover art and the back-cover blurb both focus on Venom, and wax enthusiastic about his violent tendencies and his role in the book, while DeCandido and Nieto present a police procedural that happens to involve superheroes. Imagine, for a second, that you're a police officer in the Marvel Universe. How would you feel about costumed superheroes? Especially one whose face you never see, whose voice is muffled, and who almost never stands and walks like a normal human being. One who interrupts crimes, leaving people webbed up with no evidence and no witnesses, then vanishes and lets you deal with the resulting mountains of paperwork. DeCandido and Nieto have asked those questions, and written a book about them. On Wednesday morning, three people are kidnapped: Joe Robertson, editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle; Frank Esteban, a police captain; and Ann Weying, Venom's ex-wife. There appears to be paranormal involvement, and Venom will almost certainly cause damage trying to find Ann. The police and Spidey work together, trying to crack the case, which soon involves the FBI and a group of Puerto Rican separatists who have turned to terrorism. It's nice to see that while Spidey has amazing luck with supervillains, he needs the help of the police for more realistic crimes; it's also refreshing to see Spidey from other points of view. It's very easy for readers to forget that most people in the Marvel Universe know nothing about him, since we know about Peter Parker, his job troubles, his family, and so on. To sum up, this is a good police story, and a good Spidey story. It is NOT a Venom story. If you read superhero comics for fights and explosions, this is not the book for you. On the other hand, if you like some thought put into your superheroes, along with a healthy appreciation of how silly it is for people to run around town in long underwear, you could do a lot worse than "Venom's Wrath." (I'm taking away a star for four reasons. First, there are a lot of police officers, and they can be hard to keep straight. Second, Venom's characterization is slightly off. Third, MJ isn't quite herself; she plays the policeman's faithful wife, though she does make a good point to Peter in the epilogue. And fourth, the cover and blurb attract people who will probably be disappointed by a lack of action, and drive away people who might like this as a police story and meditation on identity.)
Rating:
Summary: good, but the title is misleading
Review: This book should not be called "Venom's Wrath." Venom does appear, and he is angry, but the focus of the story is elsewhere. People expecting explosive fights between Spidey and Venom will be very disappointed. Unfortunately, the cover art and the back-cover blurb both focus on Venom, and wax enthusiastic about his violent tendencies and his role in the book, while DeCandido and Nieto present a police procedural that happens to involve superheroes. Imagine, for a second, that you're a police officer in the Marvel Universe. How would you feel about costumed superheroes? Especially one whose face you never see, whose voice is muffled, and who almost never stands and walks like a normal human being. One who interrupts crimes, leaving people webbed up with no evidence and no witnesses, then vanishes and lets you deal with the resulting mountains of paperwork. DeCandido and Nieto have asked those questions, and written a book about them. On Wednesday morning, three people are kidnapped: Joe Robertson, editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle; Frank Esteban, a police captain; and Ann Weying, Venom's ex-wife. There appears to be paranormal involvement, and Venom will almost certainly cause damage trying to find Ann. The police and Spidey work together, trying to crack the case, which soon involves the FBI and a group of Puerto Rican separatists who have turned to terrorism. It's nice to see that while Spidey has amazing luck with supervillains, he needs the help of the police for more realistic crimes; it's also refreshing to see Spidey from other points of view. It's very easy for readers to forget that most people in the Marvel Universe know nothing about him, since we know about Peter Parker, his job troubles, his family, and so on. To sum up, this is a good police story, and a good Spidey story. It is NOT a Venom story. If you read superhero comics for fights and explosions, this is not the book for you. On the other hand, if you like some thought put into your superheroes, along with a healthy appreciation of how silly it is for people to run around town in long underwear, you could do a lot worse than "Venom's Wrath." (I'm taking away a star for four reasons. First, there are a lot of police officers, and they can be hard to keep straight. Second, Venom's characterization is slightly off. Third, MJ isn't quite herself; she plays the policeman's faithful wife, though she does make a good point to Peter in the epilogue. And fourth, the cover and blurb attract people who will probably be disappointed by a lack of action, and drive away people who might like this as a police story and meditation on identity.)
Rating:
Summary: It was scary
Review: this book was scary and fu
Rating:
Summary: It was scary
Review: This book was scary and fun
Rating:
Summary: A Great Spiderman Story
Review: This is a good Spiderman story. It reads like a Crime Novel, which is it's strength. It very nice in showing how the police view Superheros in New York, and the story shows dramatic views of Spiderman and how he helps save Venom's ExWife
Rating:
Summary: Easily my favorite of the Marvel novels
Review: This reads more than anything else like a police novel, although the writers don't skimp on a well-characterized Spidey. DeCandido and Nieto slowly build and unravel the mystery of why the three people have been kidnapped, and in the meantime give us a great cast of cops interacting with Spider-Man. It reminded me a lot of the kind of story I really enjoyed on NYPD Blue, with Spidey thrown in. This was my favorite of the Marvel novels I've read.
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