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A review by vaddia99
Hawkeye: Bishop Takes King by Ashley Poston
0.25
I'd like to thank this book for reminding me why I don't read young adult novels.
Unfortunately, this book starts with a low rating because it is victim to the extremely clunky, short, and choppy writing of a good half of young adult novels I've read have. Which is fault of the genre not of the writer. As for the content of this book; It's obviously based on Kelly Thompson's West Coast Avengers (2018), and her Hawkeye run. I did not manger to finish either of these runs because I hated them so much. Kelly Thompson's Kate takes what really made Matt Fraction's Hawkeye sparkle, bastardized it and stripped it of all it's depth. Her run contribute to, if not caused, to the major character assassination of SEVERAL characters (Quentin Quire, Noh-Varr, Kate Bishop and sadly America was a little on the way anyway). The Kate in this is "hot girl from a CW show" and "Best Archer" not the deeply complex martial artist that Allan Heinberg originally created. (Which I can't blame Poston or Thompson too much for since Kieron Gillien did a good amount to start that character assassination.) So, taking both an unfavored genre and the one dimensional interpretation of one of my favorite characters into account, this book had to crawl out of hell to get any stars. A feat which it did not accomplish.
A good amount of the content annoyed me in this book but I will be fully clear and say I do not know if it is the doing of Thompson or Poston. Kelly Thompson stripped Kate of her character and made her a pathetic and #relatable #girlboss #girlfailure, a complete CW caricature of a cool girl instead of the complex character she was in Fraction's Hawkeye and Hiensberg's original Young Avengers run. This book takes that caricature and runs with it, including all of the niche hits and plotlines from both Thompson series. All of which have me sitting mildly agape questioning why in what world would any of this happen and why wasn't it viewed as cliche as hell when it was published.
Aside from that I was frustrated by
-The fact that this is a Kate Bishop book completely revolve around a love interest because that's just a cliche I personally hate.
-Lucky. I don't understand why the dog go SO MUCH screentime. He was borderline the main character and she kept putting him in dangerous situations. AND ITS NOT. EVEN. HER. DOG.
- "Noh-Varr is too emotionally available" ??? Noh-Varr... The alien cockroach who has a revolving door of relationships because he doesn't understand human emotions or intimacy? That Noh-Varr? Okay.
- Kate mentions seeing her friends die in front of her but doesn't dare utter Jonas or Cassie's names.
- This is yet another Modern Kate/Young Avengers novel that forgets anyone but Billy, Teddy and America exist.
- Fisk complaining about Kate talking too much as if he hasn't experienced that with every single marksman he knows (Bullseye and Clint also do not shut up).
-Fisk just really being a random insert of a villain that has nothing whatsoever to do with the plot.
-Did Riordan pay you to write this?? Why the hell did you talk about Percy Jackson more than 3 times in this book.
- Random Ms. Marvel insert. (only mad about this because no Young Avengers existed in this book but a random hero like 6 years younger than Kate is there).
- Calling Kate a teen? Kate has been canonically over 21 since like 2012 why is she a teen here. Beyond that, way gross to have her plot completely center on how sexy she finds the minor antagonist if she is a teen.
- Don't say "spicy book" in a novel. I'm getting a migraine.
I think that's about it.
Unfortunately, this book starts with a low rating because it is victim to the extremely clunky, short, and choppy writing of a good half of young adult novels I've read have. Which is fault of the genre not of the writer. As for the content of this book; It's obviously based on Kelly Thompson's West Coast Avengers (2018), and her Hawkeye run. I did not manger to finish either of these runs because I hated them so much. Kelly Thompson's Kate takes what really made Matt Fraction's Hawkeye sparkle, bastardized it and stripped it of all it's depth. Her run contribute to, if not caused, to the major character assassination of SEVERAL characters (Quentin Quire, Noh-Varr, Kate Bishop and sadly America was a little on the way anyway). The Kate in this is "hot girl from a CW show" and "Best Archer" not the deeply complex martial artist that Allan Heinberg originally created. (Which I can't blame Poston or Thompson too much for since Kieron Gillien did a good amount to start that character assassination.) So, taking both an unfavored genre and the one dimensional interpretation of one of my favorite characters into account, this book had to crawl out of hell to get any stars. A feat which it did not accomplish.
A good amount of the content annoyed me in this book but I will be fully clear and say I do not know if it is the doing of Thompson or Poston. Kelly Thompson stripped Kate of her character and made her a pathetic and #relatable #girlboss #girlfailure, a complete CW caricature of a cool girl instead of the complex character she was in Fraction's Hawkeye and Hiensberg's original Young Avengers run. This book takes that caricature and runs with it, including all of the niche hits and plotlines from both Thompson series. All of which have me sitting mildly agape questioning why in what world would any of this happen and why wasn't it viewed as cliche as hell when it was published.
Aside from that I was frustrated by
-The fact that this is a Kate Bishop book completely revolve around a love interest because that's just a cliche I personally hate.
-Lucky. I don't understand why the dog go SO MUCH screentime. He was borderline the main character and she kept putting him in dangerous situations. AND ITS NOT. EVEN. HER. DOG.
- "Noh-Varr is too emotionally available" ??? Noh-Varr... The alien cockroach who has a revolving door of relationships because he doesn't understand human emotions or intimacy? That Noh-Varr? Okay.
- Kate mentions seeing her friends die in front of her but doesn't dare utter Jonas or Cassie's names.
- This is yet another Modern Kate/Young Avengers novel that forgets anyone but Billy, Teddy and America exist.
- Fisk complaining about Kate talking too much as if he hasn't experienced that with every single marksman he knows (Bullseye and Clint also do not shut up).
-Fisk just really being a random insert of a villain that has nothing whatsoever to do with the plot.
-Did Riordan pay you to write this?? Why the hell did you talk about Percy Jackson more than 3 times in this book.
- Random Ms. Marvel insert. (only mad about this because no Young Avengers existed in this book but a random hero like 6 years younger than Kate is there).
- Calling Kate a teen? Kate has been canonically over 21 since like 2012 why is she a teen here. Beyond that, way gross to have her plot completely center on how sexy she finds the minor antagonist if she is a teen.
- Don't say "spicy book" in a novel. I'm getting a migraine.
I think that's about it.