I quite liked this entertaining novella. I suspect I'm really getting played...that I'm going to end up paying more for a novel in $2 increments than I'd ever spend as a single purchase, but I guess I'm in for the ride now. I haven't read the graphic novel yet, so I thought it would be fun to get a glimpse of Derrick Storm, and it was. The character names are straight out of "How to Write a Comic Book"...Derrick Storm, Clara Strike, April Showers, Jedediah Jones...but it just adds to the cheesy good fun. The story is complete while still leaving a conspiracy theory open for follow up. You got glimpses of Storm's past without lingering on it. The inner dialogue parts may have felt a little too long/repetitive/something at times, but not to the point of being annoying. Really, you couldn't ask for more in a novella.