Review: A fun little read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 24, 2014
I'm a fan of David Wellington, though I would say most of his work isn't terribly deep, it can have some very surprising insights.  Rivals has some of this too, if you look hard enough and it's worth a read. I had no problem getting through this book and there were no big sticking points.  I did find a fair bit of the motivations and reactions of characters to be glossed over, but I think most of this was deliberate.  I believe in this book besides being fun, it was exploring some of the notions of what it is to be a hero and so on.  You had a point of view from both the hero and villain and how they thought, why and what.  Neither character was overly realistic or unreastic, in fact I thought it was a perfect mix.  You could of dwelled on the depression of someone dying or how people might react to super heros, but the book glossed over that, I think on purpose.  There was a lot of emotion, including guilt, but it was more framed on how it affected their mindset going forward.There is a lot more this book could have done.  It could of easily been hundreds of pages longer if it spent more time on the start and giving more detail to motivations and characters reactions, but then it might of overstayed it's welcome.I would recomment reading this book for a fun and easy read to just about anyone.