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trike's review
3.0
The set-up for this story is that a supervillain blew up San Francisco, leading to the outlawing of all metanormal humans. So the supers who don't leave or get deported are hunted down and killed by cops specifically assigned for that job. Not an original premise, but this story is so kinetic and relentless that it doesn't matter. This is not great literature -- it's a modern superhero pulp book that a geek like me considers a beach read. If there's a moral to the story at all, it's that fanaticism is bad. Also, not revelatory, but the conflicted heroine at the heart of the book is equal parts crazy and bad-ass, which keeps it interesting. I'm not sure this is meant to be examined deeply; it's more like a Mike Hammer book with super-mutants.
bitterindigo's review against another edition
2.0
Interesting premise, light on follow-through. Could have been a provocative parallel between discriminating on meta-normals based on the actions of a few and other discriminations, but it wasn't explored deeply. A quick Sunday-afternoon read after finishing Moby Dick.
wyvernfriend's review
3.0
Soledad "Bullet" O'Roark is a super-power hunter, taking some of them down with a gun of her own invention. She's a cop with issues and has problems with relationships and her world is such that she keeps trying to connect with someone but no-one likes her life for long enough to stick around and try to make her open up and other members of the team die too often for it to be reasonable for her to date one.
It's an interesting read but somehow it's not quite as interesting as it could be. I didn't really connect with the characters or the situations they were getting into.
It's an interesting read but somehow it's not quite as interesting as it could be. I didn't really connect with the characters or the situations they were getting into.
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