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leahhateshardbacks 's review for:
Mostly Hero
by Anna Burns
A reread that never fails. First off, I love Anna Burns' writing style. It comes right off the page; I can almost hear it as if someone is narrating. This is only 130 pages long and is just a good old romp. Essentially, this is a short satirical story about superheroes, supervillains, femme fatales, and poor saps, but living their everyday lives and the relationships and history between them. It tears the genre apart and both exaggerates and contradicts its expectations. In Mostly Hero, the reader has all the knowledge, which makes for some hilarious misunderstandings between and underestimations of characters and events. It feels Shakespearean in that way. It's short, it's funny, it's brilliantly written - completely faultless.