First of all, I just love it when a Media Tie In novel for one of the Sc Fi series references another Science fiction program and basically intimates that their world (the world in the book) can totally happen, but, oh no, the other science fiction world is all fiction and couldn't possibly be real. It always cracks me up in only the best way.

In this the second Eureka tie in books, the Eureka crew are digging into a dead man's brain to find what his last thoughts were before he died in a car crash. Of course, it's Eureka, so it doesn't quite go as everyone thinks it will.

In some ways it was better than the first book (Substitution Method) and in some ways it was worse. There still wasn't enough Allison and Jack interaction, but what there was was much more like in the show. Actually the author got most of the characterization of the characters from the show done much better than in Substitution Method.

On the other hand I thought the plot was a bit thin, and then there were the little things like the fact that MIT's still in Cambridge and not in Boston, or that Kim was Henry's wife when I'm pretty sure she never was (at least in regards to when this book was written/published/was supposed to have taken place in the series).

So, on the whole I didn't like this Eureka novel as much as Substitution Method, but it wasn't a bad novel, just an average one. ( )