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Heroine's Journey
by Sarah Kuhn
The final book in this arc of the San Francisco set Heroine series is narrated in first person by exuberantly foulmouthed Bea Tanaka, younger sister to Evie, who with Aveda Jupiter are local superheroes fighting to free The City from its demon portal problem.
Bea has been bouncing from one pursuit to another, her relationships lasting even less time. It doesn’t help that her deadbeat dad turns up after years away, just in time to upset everyone. Now Bea is convinced that her life will be perfect if she becomes a superheroine with Evie and Aveda, and is furious when they point out that she seems to follow every new shiny idea without ever settling to one.
On the other hand, she is smart, determined, and her ability to vaguely influence thoughts does come in handy, especially after some creepy gigantic demon things suddenly start stomping threateningly at a local beach park. Bea is admitted as a superheroine trainee at the same time as her powers begin to ramp up exponentially . . . and she gets a hint that Evie’s and her mother, dead since Bea was twelve, might actually be caught in some demon dimension, and is trying to reach her!
I loved Bea’s voice, but what I really enjoyed were her awesome friends, beginning with her bestie Sam, with whom she has been competing academically since they were kids. Sam is super good-looking, and also bounces from one relationship to another, which is one of the reasons their friendship is so strong.
But what happens when the old competition develops a spark of you-know-what? Bea’s other bestie, Leah, calls it like it is, highly entertained when Bea stops her ears and claims no way.
Interspersed between these high octane scenes of relationship discovery are intense scenes dealing with the fallout of abandonment. Meanwhile the stakes keep rising, weird stuff keeps happening until the usual hilarious and yet tense climax, bringing this first arc to a close.
I liked this book best of the three. The emotional tension line was as involving as the magical one, and I found Bea’s voice the most fun of the three books. At the end readers are promised more from these delightful characters in a series that is diversity friendly, featuring Asian superheroines.
Copy provided by NetGalley
Bea has been bouncing from one pursuit to another, her relationships lasting even less time. It doesn’t help that her deadbeat dad turns up after years away, just in time to upset everyone. Now Bea is convinced that her life will be perfect if she becomes a superheroine with Evie and Aveda, and is furious when they point out that she seems to follow every new shiny idea without ever settling to one.
On the other hand, she is smart, determined, and her ability to vaguely influence thoughts does come in handy, especially after some creepy gigantic demon things suddenly start stomping threateningly at a local beach park. Bea is admitted as a superheroine trainee at the same time as her powers begin to ramp up exponentially . . . and she gets a hint that Evie’s and her mother, dead since Bea was twelve, might actually be caught in some demon dimension, and is trying to reach her!
I loved Bea’s voice, but what I really enjoyed were her awesome friends, beginning with her bestie Sam, with whom she has been competing academically since they were kids. Sam is super good-looking, and also bounces from one relationship to another, which is one of the reasons their friendship is so strong.
But what happens when the old competition develops a spark of you-know-what? Bea’s other bestie, Leah, calls it like it is, highly entertained when Bea stops her ears and claims no way.
Interspersed between these high octane scenes of relationship discovery are intense scenes dealing with the fallout of abandonment. Meanwhile the stakes keep rising, weird stuff keeps happening until the usual hilarious and yet tense climax, bringing this first arc to a close.
I liked this book best of the three. The emotional tension line was as involving as the magical one, and I found Bea’s voice the most fun of the three books. At the end readers are promised more from these delightful characters in a series that is diversity friendly, featuring Asian superheroines.
Copy provided by NetGalley