I liked the book for the following: more background on Hagen, Neri, Kay, Luca, and Sonny as the Don.

However, I felt that there was too much background on characters I found to be insignificant: Johnny, Lucy, and Johnny's singing friend (his name escapes me). Also, Puzo tended to be verbose at times.

Overall, a good read. I like how Hagen explains to Kay why things were done at the book's end, which is obviously different than the end of GF1.