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A review by tiffani_reads
Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy
5.0
4.5 stars
Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a superhero nut. I love all things marvel and DC. So, when I was given a chance to review and early copy of this book, I jumped on it. This book revolves around our main character Faith and her origin story as to how she got her powers. As far as origin stories go this one has be craftily adapted so it will appeal to a wider audience among young adult readers.
Faith is a very unique superhero in the fact that she is both struggling with her sexual identity and she is also, in her own words, fat. Throughout this book you get to see Faith try to understand her feelings for both Dakota and Johnny, and how those conflicting feelings affect her relationships with her friends. She struggles with how her eventual relationship with Dakota changes her relationship with her friends, and how she pulls away from them when they needed her most. This is so accurate to the actual struggles of teenagers and I'm glad this novel included it.
This story is so uniquely complex and multi-layered that it is hard to put it all down in a cohesive review, because so much happens in a very short amount of time/pages. One thing that I really was awed by though is that partway through this novel, it is revealed that Faith's Grandma Lou is suffering from dementia. This is not something you see discussed often enough in young adult fiction. I have had family members go through this and I feel like how it was portrayed in this book is very accurate and well done.
I honestly could gush and gush about how much I really enjoyed this book, but you might be wondering, if I liked it so much why the 4.5 rating. To be honest, I wanted more backstory about how Faith actually got her powers. Not much is explained about her "activation" or how she was deemed "normal" but then gained the power of flight. You only get sporadic bits and pieces of information in flashbacks, and I wanted something a bit more cohesive. Maybe in book 2, if there is a book two, we will get a bit more information.
Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a superhero nut. I love all things marvel and DC. So, when I was given a chance to review and early copy of this book, I jumped on it. This book revolves around our main character Faith and her origin story as to how she got her powers. As far as origin stories go this one has be craftily adapted so it will appeal to a wider audience among young adult readers.
Faith is a very unique superhero in the fact that she is both struggling with her sexual identity and she is also, in her own words, fat. Throughout this book you get to see Faith try to understand her feelings for both Dakota and Johnny, and how those conflicting feelings affect her relationships with her friends. She struggles with how her eventual relationship with Dakota changes her relationship with her friends, and how she pulls away from them when they needed her most. This is so accurate to the actual struggles of teenagers and I'm glad this novel included it.
This story is so uniquely complex and multi-layered that it is hard to put it all down in a cohesive review, because so much happens in a very short amount of time/pages. One thing that I really was awed by though is that partway through this novel, it is revealed that Faith's Grandma Lou is suffering from dementia. This is not something you see discussed often enough in young adult fiction. I have had family members go through this and I feel like how it was portrayed in this book is very accurate and well done.
I honestly could gush and gush about how much I really enjoyed this book, but you might be wondering, if I liked it so much why the 4.5 rating. To be honest, I wanted more backstory about how Faith actually got her powers. Not much is explained about her "activation" or how she was deemed "normal" but then gained the power of flight. You only get sporadic bits and pieces of information in flashbacks, and I wanted something a bit more cohesive. Maybe in book 2, if there is a book two, we will get a bit more information.