Review: Wearing the Cape: A Superhero Story

Wearing the Cape: A Superhero Story by Marion G. Harmon
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book is about a 18 year old girl discovering she has powers after a terrorist attack. 10 years before her "breakthrough" the whole world went basically blank for 3 seconds(like that show "Flashforward" but only through the eyes of that character who didn't see anything) and randomly selected people started discovering they got superpowers from adrenaline based incidents. The powers, like most stories, reflected their character. The powers were formed in a way that would protect them best through their own experiences.

Astra(The main character) isn't so hot on superpowers or the culture since her best friend at the age of 15 killed herself trying to spark her own by jumping off a ledge after reading it in a magazine. Astra does however grow into becoming a superhero after being asked to train and be the sidekick of her childhood crush.

...The story builds from there.

This book is fun and mostly light hearted becoming PG 13 at most with some dark elements added in later to a characters background. The only part that I really HATED, and was partly justified later, (MAJOR SPOILERS) is the sudden romantic scenes with her and her trainer (Atlas). They only known each other for a couple of months and after one scene of flirting they are planning to get married. Then the writer spends a really long chapter on them being off in a cabin making food and holding each other...and it almost ruined the whole book for me. It was obvious what was going to happen by the end of the book but the author, in my opinion, did a really good job of making things make sense and wrapping everything up. It ended on a note I really enjoyed...That chapter of them at the cabin was just terribly painful to get through though.

Other things I enjoyed:
- the main villain was well done throughout the story
- the friend she meets is great
- and personally I liked how short the chapters were. It was easy to pick up and read a chapter without having to invest a lot of time getting through it.

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