I saw this book for like $2 on a book store clearance table, so grabbed it.
Then later I realized this author also wrote the absolute worst Star Wars novels I'd ever read, so I put the book aside for a long time. For many months it languished at the very bottom of my "To Read" pile.
But then some used books I ordered used from amazon were slow to arrive, and I hit the bottom of my "To Read" pile... so I picked it up. God forbid I don't have anything to read while on the crapper.
It actually wasn't too bad. I say that as someone who knows nothing about Superman outside of the movies, besides "Superman Doomsday" where he gets killed... I bought that animated movie.
The book back-stories General Zod, Jor-El, and how we got to the point where the movies started and the Krypton council was telling Jor-El he couldn't leave the planet.... or however that was in the movies. Been a decade since I've seen them. Was most interesting to see Zod was basically a sympathetic character at first, not much different from Jor-El. His small flaws just ballooned into big flaws, partially because of a government that was really stupid.
And apparently the author took a lot of conflicting back-story from the various comics, and meshed them together so everything makes sense.
VERY light reading... it almost reads like "And then this happened, and then that happened." But, for what it is, it isn't terrible if you are curious about the events leading up to a little baby being put on a space ship and sent to Kansas. Or was it Nebraska? I don't remember.