A review by lily1304
Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy

  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.0

I'll admit I got into the plot once the stakes were raised - and without the stakes of a mystery drug and a string of kidnappings, the old teen-superhero tropes would be too boring. As it is, they're a little tired. Teen narrator accidentally gets caught up in a romantic relationship and/or superhero stuff and ditches her normal friends because she doesn't know how to tell them she has superpowers.

A couple characters show some particularly creepy behavior that Faith totally falls for, and it turns out they are, indeed, doing creepy stuff. But at the end of the story, Faith is like super ready to forgive them and make excuses for them? And it's kind of unnerving. How she's like "these people that literally trafficked and abused me? well, not everything is black and white" yikes.

Also something kind of petty that bothered me:
Faith is trying to be a superhero in a collapsing building, and she literally tries to save dogs before people that she knows are also trapped. Uh... Girl?
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