Review: Overly Technical Night
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 10, 2014
In this short installment, we pick up with superhero Astra as a nuclear missile is launched, threatening to radiate the entire planet.  Astra and a small group of superheroes are launched like rockets into space to take down the missile.While I adored the first book of the Wearing the Cape series, this short installment really doesn’t add that much to the series in terms of character development or even overall storyline.  This felt like writer indulgence to give Astra a chance to claim in future books that she saved the world and added a quick kiss by a fellow hero to give her a possible romance in future books.  This one felt like almost like a rewrite of the torpedo run at the end of the first Star Wars movie (complete with references like naming each of the superheroes doing the run with names like “Omega Five” and Astra was even itching to say “May the Force be with you” at one point).  The series just seems like it’s getting too bogged down in the action, technical, and gadgetry rather than actually bothering to do any character development (or even bothering to describe/differentiate to the audience the other superheros on board other than to tag them with names).