Is the A New Hope novelization any good, or just not-bad-for-a-novelization? I haven't read a lot of novelizations, but I think it's a hard genre to write well; things that work well on screen don't work well in print sometimes, but you can't adapt them much.

I do remember, years ago, really enjoying the novelization of the first X-Men movie, which featured a lot of Rogue, who copies other mutants' powers by touching them. The author had to portray Rogue's internal experience, and wrote her as seeing the world differently depending on which power she was currently matching, like when she was copying fire powers she saw the world like an infrared camera, etc. He talked a lot about how disorienting the synaesthesia was and how she struggled to figure out how to use new powers and even what everyday items she was looking at each time she copied a new power. I don't know if this is a comic-canonical version of Rogue's internal experiences, but I liked it and it fit well into her general angsty theme of struggling with her abilities.