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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 08:32![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zachariahI finished Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman. My thoughts behind the cut.
"When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all."
I picked this up after seeing the cover randomly while waiting for my girlfriend to sloooowly pick out her own books (<3!). The blurb was catchy, and my other book was Twilight so I thought I might need a palate cleanser.
Overall, I think it is fantastic. It alternates chapters between Doctor Impossible and Fatale, superhumans on the opposite of the law who have more in common than they first realize. It was an origin story that I wish he'd gone into a little more detail on, but there's enough happening that it can be forgiven. The pacing is good, I was able to finish the book in about two and a half days, which is good for me. The dialogue is appropriately comicky, you can't help but think "No, come on, you're smarter than that!".
It did feel a little tragic, which it was probably supposed to. Villains never win; when they do, it's not a comic book story, it's an apocalypse story, or a horror story. This was definitely classic comic book, in wall-of-text form. I wasn't sure what would happen to Dr. Impossible, but chapters of being in his head made me empathize with him; I didn't want him to get beat up again. The final fight was good, though. The ultimate winner came out of left field (i.e. not CoreFire) but in a good way - who suspects the clumsy girlfriend?
I knew long before the reveal that CoreFire had been beaten by the Pharaoh. I did not catch right away that Lily was Erica.
My only real nitpick is that Blackwolf tells Fatale that Dr. Impossible supposedly created CoreFire, but when Dr. Impossible hacks the Champions' computers, none of the guesses on his identity are even close. Come on, that's a rumor the cleverest Champion didn't follow up on? Especially with such a high degree of supers coming out of Peterson?
Question - is the Hammer of Ra supposed to be Sean the High King's hammer? I think maybe a little more time could have been spent solidifying any connection between Elphin and Regina.
Overall, A-. Would read again.
"When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all."
I picked this up after seeing the cover randomly while waiting for my girlfriend to sloooowly pick out her own books (<3!). The blurb was catchy, and my other book was Twilight so I thought I might need a palate cleanser.
Overall, I think it is fantastic. It alternates chapters between Doctor Impossible and Fatale, superhumans on the opposite of the law who have more in common than they first realize. It was an origin story that I wish he'd gone into a little more detail on, but there's enough happening that it can be forgiven. The pacing is good, I was able to finish the book in about two and a half days, which is good for me. The dialogue is appropriately comicky, you can't help but think "No, come on, you're smarter than that!".
It did feel a little tragic, which it was probably supposed to. Villains never win; when they do, it's not a comic book story, it's an apocalypse story, or a horror story. This was definitely classic comic book, in wall-of-text form. I wasn't sure what would happen to Dr. Impossible, but chapters of being in his head made me empathize with him; I didn't want him to get beat up again. The final fight was good, though. The ultimate winner came out of left field (i.e. not CoreFire) but in a good way - who suspects the clumsy girlfriend?
I knew long before the reveal that CoreFire had been beaten by the Pharaoh. I did not catch right away that Lily was Erica.
My only real nitpick is that Blackwolf tells Fatale that Dr. Impossible supposedly created CoreFire, but when Dr. Impossible hacks the Champions' computers, none of the guesses on his identity are even close. Come on, that's a rumor the cleverest Champion didn't follow up on? Especially with such a high degree of supers coming out of Peterson?
Question - is the Hammer of Ra supposed to be Sean the High King's hammer? I think maybe a little more time could have been spent solidifying any connection between Elphin and Regina.
Overall, A-. Would read again.
