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nina_chan01 's review for:
Wonder Woman at Super Hero High
by Lisa Yee
While I accept that I am way, way older than the intended readers, there is a limit to how ridiculous a book can get. This is like a picture book or a throwaway idea for a children's cash grab written out in long form. I've seen the cartoon and the simplistic characterization and dialogue works in that medium, but it left me cold in a book.
Wonder Woman goes from the highly trained and educated princess of the Amazons to a weird and superficial caricature of a quirky high-school girl. She grows over the course of the story, which is actually decently written, but it at times feels like a write-by-numbers version of an after-school special that just happens to have famous Superheroes playing the roles.
I will, however, give props to the author for how many DC Comics characters she manages to incorporate into the story. Even if most of them are so out of character as to be unrecognizable.
In the end, this is just not for me. I was hoping that my deep love for all things DC would get me through it, but I think that it's actually a large part of why I disliked it so much. Go figure.
Wonder Woman goes from the highly trained and educated princess of the Amazons to a weird and superficial caricature of a quirky high-school girl. She grows over the course of the story, which is actually decently written, but it at times feels like a write-by-numbers version of an after-school special that just happens to have famous Superheroes playing the roles.
I will, however, give props to the author for how many DC Comics characters she manages to incorporate into the story. Even if most of them are so out of character as to be unrecognizable.
In the end, this is just not for me. I was hoping that my deep love for all things DC would get me through it, but I think that it's actually a large part of why I disliked it so much. Go figure.