Resident Evil: Extinction

I find these novels far better than the films, which are too much of mindless-action-hack 'n' slash-run around-dime a dozen --style for my taste. They leave the characters somewhat bland and some charaters just disappear, such as Angela Ashford, and don't cover even Jill Valentine's first encounter with the infected, which IMO is one of the key elements in the RE universe (newspaper clippings on a wall don't quite cut it). Also, I don't like Alice in the films at all. In the novels, however, she is given some decent backstory and far more soul (in lack of a better word) than in any of the films (I still find the telekinesis/psionic projection thing ridiculous though). The same goes for most of the other characters. Unlike in the films, they don't just randomly vanish, and actually do something other than appear for no reason or say a couple of irrelevant lines. I also like how the writer tied up the gap between Raccoon City's destruction and the start of the global outbreak --and the T-virus to wrinkle cream -thing was frickin' hilarious :D The perfect example of how corporations take advantage of people's stupidity... all about the money! ;)