I ask because the Phantom Menace book is tearing up the charts. And my opinion of novelizations is that they suck. I wouldn't bother to read one unless I was being paid serious money. But really these sorts of books are for kids who can't get enough of the Star Wars universe. Yes, or almost any of Cormac McCArthy's early novels.
Style redeems all, as does artistic vision.
America, after all, is built on violence. In fact, I'd recommend The Butcher's Boy to the person who was asking about the latest Hannibal Lecter. It's a novel about a professional assassin hunted by both the federal government and the mafia for whom he used to work. The latest in this trend is the book by Ralph Ellison. And they did the same thing with Ernest Hemmingway.