A review by pagesofpins
Strong Female Protagonist. Book One by Brennan Lee Mulligan

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.