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This is probably the most complex graphic novel I’ve read so far plot wise, and I do want to read the next one so that’s a good sign, but as someone who isn’t a HUGE comic book fan I think some of the critiques aren’t hugely new… but it’s definitely interesting.

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reflective

2.0

I really didn’t get this. I kept reading hoping it would make sense later. The intention is clear but the execution is so flat and jumbled.

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adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

3.5

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5.0

This is an amazing comic. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

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3.0

I thought this would be centered on the balance between the desire to be normal and the obligation to be super, but instead it's an ex-superhero who revealed her identity on national television and left for college, sure that being a hero isn't right and that something else is needed. The story is choppy and sometimes difficult to tell what's in the present and what's in the past. Alison Green is troubled by the way heroes only matter as the opposition to villains, how apathetic civilians are when supers are around, how little difference there is between a villain and a hero. I loved her moral complexity, but at times thought her idea that helping people is wrong because it distracts from social change was a bit misguided. Social change isn't going to keep people from needing kidneys, even if the person making the sacrifice deserves a better life. Interesting characters and lots of food for thought, but hard to get into at first.

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1.0

Received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Let's just say this book was horrendous. I will just write a few sentences about the book, because a good or bad isn't going to work, since I can't really think of anything positive.

Throughout the book I was experiencing lots of WTF and WTH. I at times had no clue what happened. I mean, our main girl just walks in the middle of the street, gets thrown by bus and the bus stop sign just bend through. That was the first time I had no clue what had happened. Sure I read the description, but come on I was expecting at least a bit of background before getting thrown in the world of stopping with superheroism. So I was like: OMG that girl just got killed by a bus!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then find out she was unharmed, not even a scratch, just a poor bend bus stop sign. I was utterly confused and wanted to close the book then.

But I continued bravely, and I kind of wish I just dropped the book and wrote a review about the book then.

I will rant about the story and how confusing and at times boring it was in a bit. First up, the art and the text bubbles. Because, I am sure it might look good in bookformat, but it just doesn't work out in pdf/epub/cbr. At times I just couldn't read the text, at other times I had to squint and hurt my head reading stuff. The art is a bit fuzzy too, like someone erased some stuff, edited something in and erased some more. This might be that they converted it crappy, but I am deducting points for this. I need to be able to read a book, and also need to like the art. In graphic novels these are two of the biggest things I look at.

Now we have several plotlines and I think it would just be good to have stayed with one. We have Mega Girl + her trying to actually do something without her superpowers, we have the whole Feral part, we have her boyfriend who is/was actually a bad villain part, we got several other things happening and sorry, just stick with one plot. Especially in your first book. Don't throw it all at me, especially without much of a backstory. For most, I didn't feel anything for the characters. I was just confused, and I didn't really see why it was so much trouble to stop with superhero stuff.

And then that Feral stuff and how that escalated (again, because seriously this is not the first time). *sighs*

Mega Girl, or Allison, I just found her pathetic. I didn't like her. At times she would all be like: Sorry, Sorry, sorry for whatever the fuck I did, and then come back with lines that she wants to kill everyone, that she fantasizes about killing people... all the effing time? Wait what? Sorry, but every time she would do this, and also all the sorry crap I only started disliking her more and more, up to the point that I just didn't want to continue.

I will be honest, at around 100 of the 223 pages of my epub/pdf, I just want to quit, I wanted to stop reading this, and I continued, continued to see if maybe, just maybe it would get better. Sadly it didn't. Every time I would look at the page number, and see I only read a few pages instead of the big number I was expecting. I really had to drag/force myself through it.

I would say my favourite chapter would be the last one, that one FINALLY explains about Allison and her superpowers and how she got them and such. FINALLY.

And then it suddenly just stops. Yeah, if you want to read more about Allison, just pop over to our website. Um, no. Nice and anti-climatic to end a book like that. Definitely minus-points.

All in all, I wouldn't recommend this book.

Review first posted at http://twirlingbookprincess.com/

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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