Books like Star Trek: Nero

This continues from Star Trek Countdown and serves as another prequel to the 2009 movie. On its own I didn't like this quite as much as Countdown but it was still worth it to learn more about Nero and the events that lead up to the movie. This one focuses on what happened to Nero after he went through the black hole and what he did for 25 years right up to where the movie starts off.Both of these books together provide a legitimate explanation of exactly why Nero blames the Federation and Spock in particular for the destruction of his home planet, while the movie makes it seem like he blames them just because they were unable to rescue them. You will also learn how a simple miner like Nero turned into a psychopath, how he obtained such a badass ship and (perhaps most importantly) how he acquired the red matter and what it was originally supposed to be used for.While this is not required reading to watch the movie I felt like it added some interesting elements and made the movie even more enjoyable when I re-watched it afterwards. For instance (view spoiler)[the scene in the beginning where Nero and Ayel just look at each other and Ayel knows what to say, we now know they were communicating telepathically. (Or maybe that was already obvious to most people?) (hide spoiler)]