Wearing the Cape

Paperback, 308 pages

Published July 10, 2011 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

ISBN:
9781463539658

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4 stars (1 review)

1 edition

Very good, but a tragic ending (event spoilers, but no names)

4 stars

To start with, this book has a serious tragic ending, one that normally would make me just give up on the series. However, the rest of the book was good enough that I did keep reading.

I quite liked the main character, Hope Corrigan aka Astra. The story is told in first person from her point of view, and she's a generally positive person. She makes rookie mistakes, but her team, her family, and her friends all support her and encourage her. At the start her parents are understandably worried about her becoming a superhero since it's a dangerous profession, but admit that they raised her to take responsibility, and in this case that does mean doing whatever she can to help.

And she's not the only one making mistakes and improving -- her team does it too as they're called on to deal with types of events they've never …