... this book is as good as the Games Magazine's picture puzzle book with good quality paper and detailed, interesting picture solutions. The one drawback is that each puzzle is given a title that is a clue to the solution picture... I personally prefer to be surprised by the solution, but the clues often give away the result... not as big of a deal as saying it outright, but annoying nonetheless... the puzzles are good enough though for me to overlook that one drawback =)

This book is really not a variation of Sudoku at all, which I already knew when I purchased it. They are actually my favorite and most addictive type of puzzle, known as Paint by Number or Pic-a-Pix by the maker, Conceptis.
The puzzles offered in this book use logic to fill in a grid such that it makes a picture. As an artist-type and a logic addict, these are perfect for me. Personally, I would rather have a picture to show for my logic efforts rather than just a filled in number grid like Sudoku.
The puzzles in this book were too easy for me. However, if you are trying this HIGHLY ADDICTIVE (way more so than Sudoku) puzzle for the first time this is a nice book. If you really want to get into these puzzles, visit www.conceptispuzzles.com, they have some real doozies! They also offer all sorts of Sudoku variants, so if Sudoku is what you really want they will satisfy that too. They have many sample puzzles, and new free weekly puzzles.
Give this book a try, you'll love it and lose a lot of sleep!