A lot of people have said that "Revenge of the Sith" is the best of the Star Wars prequels, and I would agree. I generally don't go in for movie adaptations, though, so it took me awhile to get around to reading the "Sith" novel -- but I'm glad that I did. It came about like this: I was in the local Wal-Mart, getting a new set of tires and an oil change for the Honda, and I wanted something to read. I picked up "Revenge of the Sith" and started reading it in the waiting area, and by the time my work was done, I was a third of the way through it and had to buy it to finish it. I got hooked really fast.
Matthew Stover's writing style takes some getting used to, but he does a wonderful job of capturing the action of the movie. Characters are fleshed out masterfully, including an entire fight scene told from the point of view of Count Dooku. It was nice to understand that Obi-Wan and Ankakin are true intergalactic heroes, known and loved by all, facing down an aristocratic and arrogant Sith Lord. Lightsaber fighting forms are also discussed at great detail, giving more information about how the Jedi train and learn the art of wielding their weapons.
The best part of the "Sith" novel, though, was reading Anakin's fall. In the movie, it seemed to me to be a bit unconvincing that Anakin would fall so far so quickly, but the book allows for a better sense of how much time passed and how manipulative Palpatine/Darth Sidious really was. Anakin's love for Padme and his overwhelming fear of losing her like he lost his mother is given much more detail than was possible in the film, and by the time our Jedi hero bows down and becomes one of the Sith, I was totally convinced of his reasons for doing so.
The joy of print is that it allows a reader to walk around inside the heads of the characters instead of watching them act on a screen, and Stover has proven himself a master at that. I watched the film, read the novel, and then watched the film again and found that I enjoyed the movie much more knowing the things that the characters were thinking during certain scenes. The novel makes a wonderful supplement to a very good film, and I reccommend it highly for anyone who saw "Revenge of the Sith." Star Wars novels are a very hit (Timothy Zahn's work) and miss (Keven Anderson's work) proposition, and so it was nice to read such a well-done version of a well-done film.
I'm sure the paperback will be out shortly (if not already), but I only paid about $17 for the hardback version at Wal-Mart, so it's a relatively cheap read. Enjoy, and may the force be with you!
Cheers.