Where any books ever published?

Mass Effect Deception is a mess of a story and ignores much of the games and previous novels lore. I would recommend reading the others though.

The novels (I only read the first three, not the fourth and final one which is terrible by all accounts) have good stories and characters, though the actual writing is middling. I still really enjoyed them, while keeping the editor part of my brain on a leash. A lot of stuff is clunky, then there are codexy info dumps that interrupt things even more.

In a way that makes sense because when you're writing a video game you only are writing story and dialogue, really; you might have concepts for how things will look and move, but ultimately those are handled by other teams.

I've read a fair few of the comics and on the whole those seem to be higher quality.

Thanks for the reply I'll check if Amazon got them.  I despise giving Jeff Bezos more of my money but I bought 5 Dragon Age books in a bundle for a low price from there.  Plus the one to two day shipping!  

To me, that's reason enough to not want to read, though I did, but only after I'd played the entire trilogy. I'd love it if we could just cut him out of the books and the game. He's probably the lamest character in the entire series. The dude walks around with a sword even though an omni-blade can stop it. He is nearly beaten by a dying Thane. He needs a freaking gunship to protect him while recharging his shields. That makes him a weak character but they pretend he's a badass. The best scene with Kai Leng is when Shepard breaks his sword and shoves an omni-blade into his chest. I can't believe TIM thought he was a worthwhile adversary for Shepard. Or the writers, for that matter.

Mass Effect Retrospective 46: Kai Leng

Sorry to get off your point but I hate that guy so much. I don't hate him because he's the bad guy. I hate him because he was incredibly, badly written. I'd personally recommend avoiding anything with him in it. Unfortunately, he's in ME3.