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A review by unrulyheart
Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
2.0
DNF @ 184 pages.
This was such a cool concept, but ultimately the execution made me put it down. I've been reading it off and on for about three weeks now, and I still barely made it halfway. It bums me out to DNF it, but I need to just give up at this point.
Things I liked:
1. The absurd amount of superheroes and villains
2. Henchmen teMP AGENCY ASDFSDFGFDFG
3. The Millenial office life mixing with heroes and villains
4. How normal the world felt, even with the daily occurrence of hero nonsense
Things I didn't like:
1. The characters were all incredibly surface-level. Halfway through the book, and I hardly knew Anna outside of her work.
2. The relationships were not super believable. Anna's friendship with June-- we never got to see them actually being friends?? They would fall out and then make up but we never got see why they actually enjoyed each others' company??
3. It was all tell, no show. With the exception of the Electric Eel's demonstration, every bit of action and interest in the book was relayed through narration after the fact. Instead of seeing Anna be kidnapped, we get a two paragraph summary of it after she wakes up in a cell. Instead of seeing her get rescued, we read about how she pieces it together after the fact. There were hardly any proper scenes and I was bored.
4. I couldn't get invested into any aspect of the story because of all the above points.
This was such a cool concept, but ultimately the execution made me put it down. I've been reading it off and on for about three weeks now, and I still barely made it halfway. It bums me out to DNF it, but I need to just give up at this point.
Things I liked:
1. The absurd amount of superheroes and villains
2. Henchmen teMP AGENCY ASDFSDFGFDFG
3. The Millenial office life mixing with heroes and villains
4. How normal the world felt, even with the daily occurrence of hero nonsense
Things I didn't like:
1. The characters were all incredibly surface-level. Halfway through the book, and I hardly knew Anna outside of her work.
2. The relationships were not super believable. Anna's friendship with June-- we never got to see them actually being friends?? They would fall out and then make up but we never got see why they actually enjoyed each others' company??
3. It was all tell, no show. With the exception of the Electric Eel's demonstration, every bit of action and interest in the book was relayed through narration after the fact. Instead of seeing Anna be kidnapped, we get a two paragraph summary of it after she wakes up in a cell. Instead of seeing her get rescued, we read about how she pieces it together after the fact. There were hardly any proper scenes and I was bored.
4. I couldn't get invested into any aspect of the story because of all the above points.