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A review by alexis58
Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots by Seanan McGuire
4.0
I wavered between giving this book four or five stars. In the end, I settled on four because, no matter how much I enjoyed reading it, there were some technical issues that pulled me out of the story.
For one, a very large world was created inside the book with many different concepts. A few concepts didn’t really to seem to have a place in the story or drew away from it in some way, such as the “Seasons” characters and storyline
For another, there were times when the writing seemed a little cliché or heavy-handed. When the characters weren’t fleshed out enough to make their actions seem realistic enough.
And that was it. That was the end of all complaints that I had with this book. It was fantastic. It was funnier than I would like to admit. If there were moments when it was cheesy, it was cheesy in the best possible way. It picked at the superhero genre’s most obvious and not so obvious flaws, but it also celebrated the instances where the superhero genre excels. It takes down the superhero’s hero and replaces it with a down-to-earth human who just coincidentally has loads.
It was a satire at its finest.
For one, a very large world was created inside the book with many different concepts. A few concepts didn’t really to seem to have a place in the story or drew away from it in some way, such as the “Seasons” characters and storyline
For another, there were times when the writing seemed a little cliché or heavy-handed. When the characters weren’t fleshed out enough to make their actions seem realistic enough.
And that was it. That was the end of all complaints that I had with this book. It was fantastic. It was funnier than I would like to admit. If there were moments when it was cheesy, it was cheesy in the best possible way. It picked at the superhero genre’s most obvious and not so obvious flaws, but it also celebrated the instances where the superhero genre excels. It takes down the superhero’s hero and replaces it with a down-to-earth human who just coincidentally has loads.
It was a satire at its finest.