The Authority: Human on the Inside HC
Dec. 17th, 2006 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catalyst2Having never read any other The Authority, I can only comment on this one. I thought it was good although there was the occasional bit that seemed wedged in for the sake of it.
This certainly drops you right into the middle of a world and makes no effort to get you up to speed. Sink or swim, baby! That said, it was well enough written that I got the general picture fairly quickly and worked the rest out as I went along. I like flawed heroes and this certainly supplied that in great big pulsing clots of it (where the hell did that phrase just spring from?) - but did everyone have to be *so* flawed and be so frakking whiny about it? Sheesh, superheroes not only have super strength and super speed, apparently they also have super whine!
Story was OK and very ... um ... human, I suppose - quite appropriately, given the title. Everyone was coming from a very human perspective - no noble cause or grand themes here, just jealousy and fear and despair and other very "human" motivations. I have to say the the "despair = absence of fear" comment was very similar to Ken's speech in BtVS S301 Anne!
The bad: the team's naivete as accepting the new member (Danny Chan, AKA super-tough karate action guy - you have to work on the moniker, man!) was just out of place, weak, even. The torturing of Swift seemed unnecessary, I think, just a strained fit into the rest of the story. Mind you, it may fit into backstory or be setting up a future arc so ....
The really bad: the solving of the despair by a hug? A hug? A HUG? Words fail me.
The really good: this book was seriously pretty, lines, colours, everything was really good.
The other bad (that I forgot about above and failed to mention): no extras, nada, zip, zilch, not even an introduction or covers or anything. This is a Hardcover - come on!
Overall, I liked this and will be seeking out more - but only if I can get them for free (like this one from the library) until I can be more sure of story quality.
This certainly drops you right into the middle of a world and makes no effort to get you up to speed. Sink or swim, baby! That said, it was well enough written that I got the general picture fairly quickly and worked the rest out as I went along. I like flawed heroes and this certainly supplied that in great big pulsing clots of it (where the hell did that phrase just spring from?) - but did everyone have to be *so* flawed and be so frakking whiny about it? Sheesh, superheroes not only have super strength and super speed, apparently they also have super whine!
Story was OK and very ... um ... human, I suppose - quite appropriately, given the title. Everyone was coming from a very human perspective - no noble cause or grand themes here, just jealousy and fear and despair and other very "human" motivations. I have to say the the "despair = absence of fear" comment was very similar to Ken's speech in BtVS S301 Anne!
The bad: the team's naivete as accepting the new member (Danny Chan, AKA super-tough karate action guy - you have to work on the moniker, man!) was just out of place, weak, even. The torturing of Swift seemed unnecessary, I think, just a strained fit into the rest of the story. Mind you, it may fit into backstory or be setting up a future arc so ....
The really bad: the solving of the despair by a hug? A hug? A HUG? Words fail me.
The really good: this book was seriously pretty, lines, colours, everything was really good.
The other bad (that I forgot about above and failed to mention): no extras, nada, zip, zilch, not even an introduction or covers or anything. This is a Hardcover - come on!
Overall, I liked this and will be seeking out more - but only if I can get them for free (like this one from the library) until I can be more sure of story quality.
