A review by shanhaddock
The Death of Captain America by Larry Hama
5.0
This was an excellent book.
One of the things that stood out to me the most about this story and the way it was written was how well it contrasted thingsThe heart of this story was so internal that I think prose was the perfect format for it.
The way it was written was wonderful too, though I found one viewpoint being in first and all the others in third a bit jarring. I usually detest works in present tense, but in this novel it added to the feeling of immediacy. And the descriptions were wonderful; I have a rather non-visual imagination, yet I could picture what places looked like clearly.
There also were some amusingly phrased bits. One of my favorites was: “She had to make do with screeching the same expletive at me over and over. I offered to teach her some more imaginative invective, but that just increased the volume.”
My only real complaints are about pacing. Early on too much time was spent filling the reader in on every possibly relevant bit of information about the Marvel universe, and the ending felt a bit rushed, like there weren’t enough pages to really complete the story properly.
Still though, wonderful book.
One of the things that stood out to me the most about this story and the way it was written was how well it contrasted things
Spoiler
. . . like the difference between Senator Wright and Captain America’s version of patriotism, the differences between Bucky as the Winter Soldier and Bucky as Bucky and Bucky as Captain America, and Sharon under her own control and Sharon under Doctor Faustus’ control. I’ve not read the comics/graphic novel this was based on, but I doubt they did nearly as good a job.The way it was written was wonderful too, though I found one viewpoint being in first and all the others in third a bit jarring. I usually detest works in present tense, but in this novel it added to the feeling of immediacy. And the descriptions were wonderful; I have a rather non-visual imagination, yet I could picture what places looked like clearly.
There also were some amusingly phrased bits. One of my favorites was: “She had to make do with screeching the same expletive at me over and over. I offered to teach her some more imaginative invective, but that just increased the volume.”
My only real complaints are about pacing. Early on too much time was spent filling the reader in on every possibly relevant bit of information about the Marvel universe, and the ending felt a bit rushed, like there weren’t enough pages to really complete the story properly.
Still though, wonderful book.