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Catwoman: Soulstealer
by Sarah J. Maas
I have a lot of mixed feelings about this, so I'm going to try to sort them out.
The good - I liked that Selina was driven by her love for her sister, the other viewpoint was a person of color (Lucius Fox's son), there are physical and mental illnesses portrayed, this touched on the Gotham City Sirens and the relationship between Harley and Ivy.
But overall, I felt like this was way too messy for me to enjoy. I kept rereading most of the second half because I felt like I was constantly lost when so much got introduced. I liked the beginning, but as the book went on more and more characters and plotlines were introduced to the point that the narrative was just a mess.
If this is going to be a book about the romance between Selina and Luke, fine. If it's going to be about Selina trying to save her sister, fine. But when it became crime + a possible romance + not a possible romance + a plot revealed last minute, it was too much for me. This fell into a lot of tropes and dissuaded me from reading any more of SJM's work (not that I intended to before this).
I think what I've found with this series is that while I like reading YA featuring DC characters, I'm very critical of the output. We'll see how the last book goes later this year.
The good - I liked that Selina was driven by her love for her sister, the other viewpoint was a person of color (Lucius Fox's son), there are physical and mental illnesses portrayed, this touched on the Gotham City Sirens and the relationship between Harley and Ivy.
But overall, I felt like this was way too messy for me to enjoy. I kept rereading most of the second half because I felt like I was constantly lost when so much got introduced. I liked the beginning, but as the book went on more and more characters and plotlines were introduced to the point that the narrative was just a mess.
If this is going to be a book about the romance between Selina and Luke, fine. If it's going to be about Selina trying to save her sister, fine. But when it became crime + a possible romance + not a possible romance + a plot revealed last minute, it was too much for me. This fell into a lot of tropes and dissuaded me from reading any more of SJM's work (not that I intended to before this).
I think what I've found with this series is that while I like reading YA featuring DC characters, I'm very critical of the output. We'll see how the last book goes later this year.