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Skip this book unless you were looking for expensive bird-cage lining material.
Does this thing have a less than 1 star rating? Aw, it doesn't. I actually have to give this a star.
You know, if you want to watch some teenagers NOT save the day with actual humor and style, you could save yourself some time and have a Teen Titans Go marathon. Just saying.
About a tenth of the way through, I started joking with my husband about making a drinking game about each continuity error and paradox the author made. I'm currently a quarter through, and if I drank, I'd be dead of alcohol poisoning. I can't stop *laughing* as I read. Dig this s***, guys:
Amazing badass angel-kid (let's call her Mary Sue!) "fights with everyone" because she "has no friends and is miserable. Also she doesn't want to conform." What's she spend the rest of the book with? HER FRIENDS. And what does she do? Oh c'mon, guess! SHE CONFORMS. Stand up for herself? Nope. Mostly, she's a roving fashion reporter.
Oh, and did we mention those superpowers? She basically has every one, ever. We're making a half-assed bingo game here every time she pops up some new ability, with or without the aid of a trinket. So far we have about 16 powers worked up between us. Most of them involve her ability to name the designer of her friends' shoes.
Or could we discuss the magical bracelet that shows up at about 1/4 of the way through but wasn't there back when she was, oh, say, saving humans from harm? Did she just forget she had it on? Or was it a last second idea without any development?
My eight year old literally dictated (parts) of a novel better than this.
I'm going back to reading just as soon as I visit the loo. I've laughed so hard I really need to pee.
Also, I might just finish this book up WITH the drinking game. It might help to be blotto with these stereotypical characters and this wooden plot.
January 2015 · Kindle Store · verified purchase