Crisis Aftermath: The Battle for Bludhaven Book

I should have paid attention to the reviews on Crisis Aftermath: Battle for Bludhaven and saved my money. As much as it is consistently focused on the control of a Bludhaven, the novel is a busy mess. It presents too many characters to keep up with and offers too much action for one to read and digest in one sitting. Even worse is that the superheroes, the Teen Titans, seem to be more of a lure for readers to be interested in the story; within the first chapter, the group appears on two pages only. The other characters -- who possess cheesy names like Lady Liberty and Father Time -- are from at least two other groups who come to Bludhaven in the name of the U.S. government or in the pursuit of power. Their verbal sparring is even cheesier, being nothing but a distraction from the main story.