Star Trek: movie adaptation

As an adaptation this book is very good. Reading it was like watching the movie again. The art is pretty good too. But I have a huge problem with all this Star Trek reboot. I understand that this is a different time line from TOS's time line so things are different. But for example the idea of Kirk being promoted from Cadet straight to Captain is ridiculous. Also seeing a very emotional Spock having relationship with Uhura is very weird.