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Originally Posted by fjtorres
I rather liked the second volume.
We get to see more of other Metas, how the bands work, and the way the government deals with the situation.
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Noted.
I am always rather interested in how the government reacts --
Wearing the Cape goes into this
a lot.
(Vigilantes are a government's worst nightmare... in the real world this would usually become a three-way war.
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The writing is clean YA prose, no wordsmithing gimmicks, and he plays off most of the standard secret Identity tropes, with a twist or two. For example, it is the protagonist who frets about somebody else being a secret meta. It a generally fun frothy diversion...
...and a good example of the kind of good indie material no tradpub would bother with; it's no GLADIATOR or SUPER FOLKS, it simply takes standard tropes and plays with them. Not likely to sell a million, redefine the genre or anything like that. But it is better than a lot of the stories in the mainstream comics in 2015 (a pretty bad year, admittedly) for less than a typical floppy.
Not a bad buy if you're into the genre.
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I should definitely clarify, that I don't regret paying money for it.
I read it when there was only one book.
As I said, it wasn't bad -- it just didn't grab me, and there were no sequels yet. Maybe you could call it "comfortable indie midlist".
I think this may have been shortly after reading
Wearing the Cape Book 1, which I may have mentioned
I
really liked; possibly, it just didn't do well in comparison (which is an unfair judgment).
There are definitely worse members of the genre -- I've read some of them, and wouldn't contaminate this thread by mentioning them!
This? I think it was decently written, which is of course the first standard to look at.
And I liked the storyline enough that I will most likely finish it. I like (eventually) finishing a series that I started, assuming it meets a certain basic level of enjoyment. But, it wasn't one of the books that go on my "authors to pre-order" list...
I am also open to the possibility that a) I was biased when I read it, or b) it will grow on me; therefore I may still revise my ranking.
If I thought it wasn't worth looking at, I wouldn't have mentioned it at all.
