claire678 's review for:

Catwoman: Soulstealer by Sarah J. Maas

1.75

relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Sorry for being a hater of the basic premise but I don’t like retcons… I want the plot of cat woman from batman forever 

They keep saying “Gotham City” I could have sworn it was just “Gotham” ?

The way Maas mentions the race/ethnicity of each character as part of their introduction is incredibly awkward… I get that she doesn’t want people assuming all the characters are white but there must be a better way than things like “’hello’ said the Asian girl.” Also I do not think you could tell a person who was wearing a tactical bodysuit was ethnically Russian just from looking at their face and it’s kind of an uncomfortable thing to bring into the story. Did not like that.

None of the jokes are quite funny. None of the badass lines are really badass. 

Vegan poison ivy hell yeah

A lot of the wording is weird/bad. I don’t any seventeen-year-old says “hence”. She does a Caps For Emphasis thing at one point and omg this is not Tumblr.com this is a published book stoppppp. The phrase “sketched a bow” to describe someone doing a mock-formal bow is INCREDIBLY weird and awkward yet Maas uses it THREE TIMES.

Strange loose attempts to critique vigilantism and the usa justice system while ultimately endorsing both. For example Luke explains that he doesn’t kill people because he’s “against vigilantism” then he breaks someone’s nose immediately. Luke talks about how cops are racist but is constantly collaborating with them. The way they kept talking about the sanctity of the usa military was annoying. Batwing collecting wildly personal information about random civilians without their knowledge or consent but that’s basically par for the course.

The reveals towards the end were good I guess but needed to be foreshadowed wayyyyyy more.