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Blaze (or Love in the Time of Supervillains)
by Laurie Boyle Crompton
I really wanted to love this book. As a geek girl myself, I was ready for Blaze to be my YA anthem, the book I desperately wished to have had in middle & high school. But alas, this was not this book. I found the main character Blaze hard to relate to; it's almost as if her geekiness was used as a replacement for actual character, a defining 'quirk' that made her manic-pixie-dream-girl-esque. I didn't want her to worry about others' opinions; I wanted her to be as badass as her role model, Jean Grey, and actually do something. Quentin started off as pure obnoxious (think redditor, men's right's activist, pretentious fanboy that thinks all girls have cooties -- oh wait) and transformed into bland and stereotypical.
I think what mostly I couldn't stomach was that off-brand geekiness - it didn't feel quite authentic. It felt staged. It felt like the geekiness was used as a substitute for substance.I went in hoping for a Community, and instead I just got another Big Bang Theory.
I think what mostly I couldn't stomach was that off-brand geekiness - it didn't feel quite authentic. It felt staged. It felt like the geekiness was used as a substitute for substance.I went in hoping for a Community, and instead I just got another Big Bang Theory.