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the23rdjoker's review against another edition
5.0
I haven't read this book for many years, but my rating for it is thusly based on my 12 year-old self's impression of the book when he read an uncorrected proof copy that a librarian lent him way back in the day. And so it goes:
THIS BOOK IS SO AWESOME ZOMG LOL!
(Okay, I didn't actually talk like that when I was that age. But you get the idea.)
I loved this book when I read it. It gripped me from the very start, and I sped through it most swiftly, desperate to know how it would end.
It had super heroes, relatable teenage characters, villains, action scenes - everything a 12 year-old boy could ask for.
I remember more than anything else that I found the character with the power of super-speed to be the most awesome, which was mostly down to the way the book described his distorted perception of the world whenever he slipped into super-speed mode. It was awesome...and by the end of the book, his character gained a new significance that I could have never predicted at the beginning.
Like I said before, I haven't read this book since then, and I also never kept up with the series after that, so I don't know if it ever lived up to the promise of the first book, or if it pulled a "Maximum Ride" and went downhill horribly after that.
But I remember this book terribly fondly, which is why I now give it the highest rating that I can possibly give it - FIVE STARS!
=))
THIS BOOK IS SO AWESOME ZOMG LOL!
(Okay, I didn't actually talk like that when I was that age. But you get the idea.)
I loved this book when I read it. It gripped me from the very start, and I sped through it most swiftly, desperate to know how it would end.
It had super heroes, relatable teenage characters, villains, action scenes - everything a 12 year-old boy could ask for.
I remember more than anything else that I found the character with the power of super-speed to be the most awesome, which was mostly down to the way the book described his distorted perception of the world whenever he slipped into super-speed mode. It was awesome...and by the end of the book, his character gained a new significance that I could have never predicted at the beginning.
Like I said before, I haven't read this book since then, and I also never kept up with the series after that, so I don't know if it ever lived up to the promise of the first book, or if it pulled a "Maximum Ride" and went downhill horribly after that.
But I remember this book terribly fondly, which is why I now give it the highest rating that I can possibly give it - FIVE STARS!
=))
fueledbyrobert's review
3.0
Read this a couple years ago, just finished reading it again. Didn't enjoy it as much as when I was younger but it was still pretty entertaining
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