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Verity Fortune aka The Seeker escapes from a torturous mental asylum to find her life in ruins and her family of super=heroes set to appease the city's greatest super-villain rather than fight him.
Verity soon hooks up with the only other super-hero currently fighting the good fight, but she's far from well. She keeps having seriously disruptive flashbacks to the events that put her in the asylum, and her memory of them is patchy at best. Meanwhile her family is actively hostile towards her while pulling a political agenda that would see the city try to appease Razorfire and his villainous Gallery.
There are pros and cons here. Pros would definitely be the idea of an unreliable narrator as a superhero. Verity is seriously messed up, and by the mid-point of this book, you're left wondering if she was in the asylum for very good reasons. (Her treatment there is never explained though, one of the more egregious of this book's dangling plot threads). Another pro is the ongoing dialogue around the rights of people to act as super-heroes while causing collateral property damage and injury or death.
The cons include a level of difficulty in the story that isn't matched by the level of skill of the writer. The unreliable narrator thing is great. Having that narrator have the emotional stability of a toddler on red cordial is not. Yes, she's been traumatized, both with the death of her father and the circumstances around that, and then by a torturous stint on an asylum, but there is no subtlety here at all. She's either competent or falling apart. Also the villain Razorfire makes very little sense at all and there's no hint of his end-game.
Finally, a warning and another con, this is not a complete book. The story is not even slightly resolved here and if you want any form of closure to the Fortunes and Razorfire in Sapphire City you'll need to read at least the next book (and the blurb doesn't sound promising about closure).
Verity soon hooks up with the only other super-hero currently fighting the good fight, but she's far from well. She keeps having seriously disruptive flashbacks to the events that put her in the asylum, and her memory of them is patchy at best. Meanwhile her family is actively hostile towards her while pulling a political agenda that would see the city try to appease Razorfire and his villainous Gallery.
There are pros and cons here. Pros would definitely be the idea of an unreliable narrator as a superhero. Verity is seriously messed up, and by the mid-point of this book, you're left wondering if she was in the asylum for very good reasons. (Her treatment there is never explained though, one of the more egregious of this book's dangling plot threads). Another pro is the ongoing dialogue around the rights of people to act as super-heroes while causing collateral property damage and injury or death.
The cons include a level of difficulty in the story that isn't matched by the level of skill of the writer. The unreliable narrator thing is great. Having that narrator have the emotional stability of a toddler on red cordial is not. Yes, she's been traumatized, both with the death of her father and the circumstances around that, and then by a torturous stint on an asylum, but there is no subtlety here at all. She's either competent or falling apart. Also the villain Razorfire makes very little sense at all and there's no hint of his end-game.
Finally, a warning and another con, this is not a complete book. The story is not even slightly resolved here and if you want any form of closure to the Fortunes and Razorfire in Sapphire City you'll need to read at least the next book (and the blurb doesn't sound promising about closure).