Books like X-Men: Second Coming Revelations

I borrowed X-Men: Second Coming Revelations from the library thinking it was the follow up of X-Men: Second Coming Revelations and it would shed more life on Hope's story-arc, but reading it, it felt more like watching deleted scenes on a DVD/Blu-ray disc. For some reason deleted scenes feel like a good idea to watch, but afterwards, all I can think is, "Oh okay...That's why they cut that from the show..."There are four stories in the book that are perhaps loosely related to what is going on in the X-Men Universe. We catch a glimpse of what life was like for Cable and Hope as they escape from the Nimrods. I actually really liked it. It lacked a little depth, but it was a good story nonetheless.The second story is about the woman who created the Mutant cure. I don't want to really spoil it, but it's a really convoluted story about inter-dimensional space travel and alternate dimensions and mutant holocaust, etc. I won't give the rest away. It's super interesting, but a lot of it doesn't make any sense. I feel like it had some serious potential, but it had so many plot holes in the beginning, all you can think of was, "What is going on???" All in all it was okay and lowered my rating of the book.The third story is really interesting. It's a follow up of what happened to Illyana aka Magik aka Colossus's sister. Previously in X-Men: Second Coming Illyana was taken by these mysterious demons and stolen into Limbo. I don't understand at all how or why she was stolen into Limbo. The whole plot doesn't make much sense, but it is neat to find out what happens to her at least. I always liked Illyana. I find Piotr's relationship with his sister to be pretty incredible. It's also neat that Gambit makes an appearance. Where the heck was he in all of Second Coming, but I don't really like how he was portrayed. It's all hard to wrap my head around, but I liked seeing the New Mutants, it was kind of refreshing. It was my first time reading a comic with Anole, who is one of the few gay mutants, but the book makes no reference to it. (Not that it has to. It really isn't about that, but I do kind of look forward to reading some sort of story-arc that features more on Anole's life story.)The last story is the worst. Ugh! X-Factor...I don't understand the point. Banshee was cool. The book doesn't mention it, but looking it up, she is Banshee's daughter, who once went by Siryn. For some reason I just really like her. She has a very cool attitude, and it seems she's gone through a lot in life. I respect that. Not to mention her accent is just plain awesome. I know you it's a book, and I can't hear it, but when I read her dialogue, I listen to her voice in my head, and I just love it. :) Maybe I'm weird. Hehe.All in all, not a favorite of mine. I'm a big X-Men fan, but this one is a bit lacking in certain areas. For starters, it is not cohesive, which I can't stand. Secondly, the X-Factor part was just pointless. Why does it exist? Thirdly, I hate the whole inter-dimension space-time bits added to comic books. It's oftentimes confusing and contrived. It means to be deep and Matrix-like, but it oftentimes just feels tedious.Would I recommend this book? No. It's not very good. I'd say only read it if you were bored. Luckily it's short and can be tackled in an hour or so. I probably spent as much time writing this review. Haha!