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A review by justinekorson
Heroine Worship by Sarah Kuhn
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
I didn't write a review for the first novel but I'm going to talk about both of them here.
In the first story, Heroine Complex, I really loved Evie and how funny she was. The demon portal and all the funny/weird situations they all found themselves in were great! I also really felt for her because Aveda/Annie was not a good friend and genuinely did not seem like a good person (though I did understand her more toward the end of the story). In the first one, H.C, Evie was also pretty heavily badmouthed in all the media transcripts for Maisy's blog posts and it made me really dislike her (Maisy not Evie) and the other citizens of San Francisco who were giving Evie such a hard time when they didn't even know the full story themselves. So when the same thing started happening in this story, Heroine Worship, I was... pretty upset. Only, this time around, all the hate was focused on Aveda/Annie.
Like I mentioned, I did not particularly care for Aveda/Annie in the first novel but since this second one, H.W, is from her perspective, I could really see how hard she was trying to be a better friend/version of herself. Now suddenly Aveda was being completely trashed in the media, and being blamed for things by her friends and I didn't like it at all. It felt like Evie and Aveda's rolls had simply been reversed and I didn't like how it felt that Aveda and Evie were being pitted against each other?? Like I should like one of them more than the other because both women are actually really great, funny, and so caring and loyal. All of their mishaps in both of their books stemmed from them being so fiercely loyal to the other person to the point that they're way too codependent and they're working on it!
So while I still really enjoyed Aveda, Evie and Co. and really enjoyed the plot, I didn't like how the feelings I had from the first novel were essentially rehased.
In the first story, Heroine Complex, I really loved Evie and how funny she was. The demon portal and all the funny/weird situations they all found themselves in were great! I also really felt for her because Aveda/Annie was not a good friend and genuinely did not seem like a good person (though I did understand her more toward the end of the story). In the first one, H.C, Evie was also pretty heavily badmouthed in all the media transcripts for Maisy's blog posts and it made me really dislike her (Maisy not Evie) and the other citizens of San Francisco who were giving Evie such a hard time when they didn't even know the full story themselves. So when the same thing started happening in this story, Heroine Worship, I was... pretty upset. Only, this time around, all the hate was focused on Aveda/Annie.
Like I mentioned, I did not particularly care for Aveda/Annie in the first novel but since this second one, H.W, is from her perspective, I could really see how hard she was trying to be a better friend/version of herself. Now suddenly Aveda was being completely trashed in the media, and being blamed for things by her friends and I didn't like it at all. It felt like Evie and Aveda's rolls had simply been reversed and I didn't like how it felt that Aveda and Evie were being pitted against each other?? Like I should like one of them more than the other because both women are actually really great, funny, and so caring and loyal. All of their mishaps in both of their books stemmed from them being so fiercely loyal to the other person to the point that they're way too codependent and they're working on it!
So while I still really enjoyed Aveda, Evie and Co. and really enjoyed the plot, I didn't like how the feelings I had from the first novel were essentially rehased.