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A review by iam
No More Heroes by Michelle Kan
2.0
I wanted to like this a lot more than I did.
No More Heroes has a lot of potential and a great premise, but the execution didn’t quite do it for me.
The writing style was good in itself, easy to read and understandable, but it dragged at times and felt repetetive in some places. What bothered me the most was the way it kept the characters very distant – they all seemed amazing and I wanted to know more about them, but they felt like strangers until the very end, as if I just got brief glimpses into their lives. Maybe that was intentional, but I simply prefer to feel a lot closer to a book’s protagonists.
It also felt like as soon as one character aquired some information, suddenly it was universally known, or I couldn’t trace back the source of the information in the first place, which left me a bit confused.
The motive and actions of the villains were rather weak in my opinion. What was very cool though was the different superpowers the characters had – they were refreshing and not the same 10 typical things that most superhero stories use again and again.
The plot was focused on a very small scale of one City (or rather THE City, there was never a name, as well as the few cities around it) – it made sense since the main characters are all rather locally focused on their own problems, but I would have liked to see more of the grand scheme of things in this world. There were hints to more grand scale happenings at the end of the book.
Overall very action-packed and fast-paced with a diverse cast and lots of potential, but also a lot of room for improvement.
No More Heroes has a lot of potential and a great premise, but the execution didn’t quite do it for me.
The writing style was good in itself, easy to read and understandable, but it dragged at times and felt repetetive in some places. What bothered me the most was the way it kept the characters very distant – they all seemed amazing and I wanted to know more about them, but they felt like strangers until the very end, as if I just got brief glimpses into their lives. Maybe that was intentional, but I simply prefer to feel a lot closer to a book’s protagonists.
It also felt like as soon as one character aquired some information, suddenly it was universally known, or I couldn’t trace back the source of the information in the first place, which left me a bit confused.
The motive and actions of the villains were rather weak in my opinion. What was very cool though was the different superpowers the characters had – they were refreshing and not the same 10 typical things that most superhero stories use again and again.
The plot was focused on a very small scale of one City (or rather THE City, there was never a name, as well as the few cities around it) – it made sense since the main characters are all rather locally focused on their own problems, but I would have liked to see more of the grand scheme of things in this world. There were hints to more grand scale happenings at the end of the book.
Overall very action-packed and fast-paced with a diverse cast and lots of potential, but also a lot of room for improvement.