Paperback, 283 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2016 by Duet Books.
Welcome to Andover… where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without superpowers and is merely looking to beef-up her college applications when she stumbles upon the perfect (paid!) internship—only it turns out to be for the town’s most heinous supervillain. On the upside, she gets to work with her longtime secret crush, Abby, who Jess thinks may have a secret of her own. Then there’s the budding attraction to her fellow intern, the mysterious “M,” who never seems to be in the same place as Abby. But what starts as a fun way to spite her superhero parents takes a sudden and dangerous turn when she uncovers a plot larger than heroes and villains altogether.
Story's an easy five here - a lovely story. The writing is third person present tense, which is my absolute least favorite style other than epistolary. Takes as given a lot of stuff that normally gets painted as pretty ugly, and creates a world where I'd actually be comfy living other than the background story-line of villainy.
Terrible. Couldn’t even make it halfway through. The idea was great - the execution was beyond terrible. The writing was stilted and unrealistic, every character was a token something (it didn’t feel like representation, it was forced and written badly).
Just ... bad writing. Bad character development.
I’m very glad I got this from the library and didn’t have to pay for it. I couldn’t recommend this to anyone, not even kids.
I really wanted to love this one. Everyone loves this one. An Asian-American girl from a family of superheroes dealing with not having powers and having a crush on a girl from school. But there was no completed story in this book. It is the first of a planned trilogy but if you are going to do that, please have a full story in each book within a larger story that unites the three. In this book nothing is resolved. There were a lot of tired superhero tropes too. The most annoying was not realizing that you are talking to a person you know because they are wearing a costume. It could have been funny if it wasn't drug out so long.
