
Wearing the Cape
Wearing the Cape Series, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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K.F. Lim
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By:
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Marion G. Harmon
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Who wants to be a superhero?
Hope did, but she grew out of it. Which made her superhuman breakthrough in the Ashland Bombing, just before starting her freshman year at the University of Chicago, more than a little ironic. And now she has some decisions to make.
Given the code-name "Astra" and invited to join the Sentinels, Chicago's premier super-team, will she take up the cape and mask and become a career superhero? Or will she get a handle on her new powers (superstrength has some serious drawbacks) and then get on with her life plan?
In a world where superheroes join unions and have agents, and the strongest and most photogenic ones become literal supercelebrities, the temptation to become a cape is strong. But the price can be high - especially if you're "outed" and lose the shield of your secret identity.
Becoming a sidekick puts the decision off for awhile, but Hope's life is further complicated when The Teatime Anarchist, the supervillain responsible for the Ashland Bombing, takes an interest in her. Apparently as Astra, Hope is supposed to save the world. Or at least a significant part of it.
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This audiobook is a companion to an excellent book. I understand that narrator is an author and quite a good one. But, she reads with extreme dictation which sounds very stilted.
That said. This book, aside from Drew Hayes’ Superpowereds series and Villain’s Code series is one of the most intelligently written Superhero series out there. You would do well to read or listen to them. Trust me, you will love how well-rounded their universes are. If you are tired of “The Message” being pushed by Marvel and DC, give these series a try!
A bit of a jarring narration, a fantastic book!!
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A superhero story for girls
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Nice to revisit the story.
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Warning: unfortunately the further down the series it goes the more radical left it goes the cast become a diversity checklist more muh representation and less interesting story etc.
This one is great
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this series is so good
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Narrative was Well done and Emotive for the most part but a deeper male voice dose not mean a quieter male voice. Many time I would crank the volume just to hear the male characters.
I wanted to give a 5
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It was more interesting to me to guess at the author's political inclinations than pay attention to the story. I don't know for sure, but I feel like the author is a political conservative trying to appear liberal. Any attempts at appearing to be more progressive or diverse seemed to feel wrong.
This is the story of a Catholic upper middle class white girl, daughter of two loving parents, who becomes one of the most powerful superheroes in existence.
The President of the United States is a woman and a Native American - and a Republican.
Every world power that isn't America has fractured into multiple warring states. The world is held together by America's military might, as they intervened around the world to keep the peace out of the goodness of their hearts, creating the Pax Americana.
At one point the American superheroes interact with a muslim superhero - who is a jihadist bent on killing white American Christians, naturally.
The heroine is tempted, but refuses to give up her virginity before marriage. Keeping that is sacred, of course. We wouldn't want to disappoint God.
Now of course other people could have a different perspective. It's nice to see a story where the powerful superhero is a woman, right? And sure, christianity (specifically catholicism) are a major part of the book, but the priest is so open minded he's interested in adding a statue of a Chinese deity to the church. There are a few other momenets as well - so isn't the author trying to create a diverse, progressive world?
Well, all I can say is how it felt to me.
Average superhero story
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Good Story
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I like super hero stories. I’ve been reading them since my mother gave me my first comic books the summer before I entered fourth grade. Before that I’d watched the original Spiderman cartoon and the Super Friends on television. Many thousands of comics, a whole bunch of movies and television shows, and maybe two-to-three hundred super hero novels later I feel like I’m an expert on the genre. So it isn’t lightly that I say that Harmon’s Wearing the Cape is easily one of the three or four best superhero series out there.
It’s a series for people who take their supers seriously. Like all the other superhero novels out there, Wearing the Cape still demands a certain level of suspended disbelief, but there is a gritty realism in the way this world is envisioned that goes well beyond standard super hero fare—especially that coming out of the genre leaders at Marvel and DC comics. Yet all of that gritty realism doesn’t get in the way of genuine super heroics and the fun that comes from reading about them.
Hope Corrigan is an eighteen year old woman about to start her first year in college when a terrorist bomber drops an overpass on her and a bunch of other people driving on the highway. By a fluke of luck, she’s not immediately killed by the falling concrete, but she’s worried about all the other people around her and her need to help them generates a superhero breakthrough in her that launches her into her career as a superhero called Astra.
Chicago, where the series is based, is home to America’s premier superhero team, The Sentinels, and to Atlas, the world’s first superhero. They have a lot of experience training new supers and the Sentinels, like all super teams, has a legal status working with the local authorities to A) help them control supervillains and B) work as emergency response personnel during natural and man-made disasters. (You know, like a terrorist dropping an overpass onto the highway below.)
Astra’s training gives us the opportunity to painlessly discover how the superheroes function in society. No, that’s not fair, it’s not just painless it’s downright exciting. Superheroes are celebrities with fans, magazines, and clubs devoted to them. There are also movies, television shows and merchandising. They need insurance to cover the civil suits that happen when they’re called in to take down supervillains. There are government agencies that work with them and keep an eye on them. And all of this truly critical world building seamlessly flows from the text while Hope/Astra deals with the completely believable stresses of an incredibly difficult job. And that’s just the day to day problems of a superhero—the equivalent of Spiderman stopping a bank robbery on his way to the Daily Bugle. The actual mega-villain activity is worthy of the best story arcs Marvel and DC have ever put on paper.
To close I’d like to say a few words about the audio version of this novel which I just had the pleasure of listening to. I’ve read the kindle version two or three times, but the audio brings a whole new level of enjoyment to the story. You see, even though you know Hope’s just eighteen, you can forget that at times while reading, but not with a capable narrator like K. F. Lim. She gets the young Hope’s voice perfectly and the giggles and tongue-tied stutters and a dozen other little narrative effects really drive home that this is a teenager we’re reading about. It brings Harmon’s story to life even more effectively than he did.
Up, Up, and Away!
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Excellent addition to the genre
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