User blog comment:Morgan Legouffe Jerome/Novel/@comment-70.181.210.38-20140615181634

SPOILER ALERT!

The novel is vastly different from the tv show not only in that it takes place 300 years after leaving earth, but also in that the characters portrayed in the book and their back stories differ from those in the tv show.

While Clarke, Bellamy, Octavia and Wells do exist in both novel and tv canon, they show extremely different personalities. Some of my tv-favorites flat out don't exist in the novel, like Finn, Raven, Monty or Jasper. Then there are characters in the novel that don't exist in the tv-show (thank goodness) who stayed behind on the Ark. Their names are Glass (yes, a girl named Glass) and Luke (a boy who used to be Glass's boyfriend but ended up with another chick before the prison doors even fully slammed shut behind Glass once she was put in confinement).

Overall you won't miss anything by not reading the book. It's around 300 pages of mushy love story between Clarke and Wells (yes, the guy who died 3 or 4 episodes in), and Bellamy and Clarke (yes, the inevitable) and Octavia and Wells (really? seriously?) and the aforementioned Glass and Luke. It's a snorefest were nothing really happens and when something finally DOES happen, you've turned the last page.