Girl Power edition by PT Dilloway Literature Fiction eBooks
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When a supervillain's weapon turns Earth's greatest male heroes into its greatest heroines, they enter a whole new world. Can Apex Girl, Velocity Gal, the Mermaid, and Midnight Spectre come together in time to save the world?
Girl Power edition by PT Dilloway Literature Fiction eBooks
What if DC's mega-heroes, Superman, The Flash, Aquaman and Batman were turned into women?Quite honestly, I'd never really considered the question, but after reading this, I think I like them all better this way. Girl Power is not a DC property, but the author made it clear that these are the archetypes that he's tackling in this short novel.
This really has the feel of a sliver-age story, where our good guys are good, and our bad guys are bad. And on a team mission early in the story, our four stars are irreversibly turned into women.
Then they have to figure out how to adjust.
I like it a great deal because this is a mash-up I've not seen before. Not that I'm an expert of superhero fiction, but it has that silver-age feel I mentioned before, mixed with the more literary story arc of people not being comfortable in their own skin.
What do you do when you come home to your wife and child and have to tell them you're a woman? Or if you're gay lover no longer has any interest in you because you're no longer a man.
Or, in the case of Starla, seeing sexism at every turn that your powerless to stop no matter how mighty you are.
And in the case of my favorite storyline, Midnight, our powerless hero that relies on wits, gadgets, and hard work, not only is he turned into a female, but a teenager at that. One that has to go back to high school and deal with teenage hormones.
I enjoyed this to no end. Yes, there is also the more traditional hero's story arc too, but that isn't where the brilliance lies, it's in the characters learning how to be good people first, not just heroes.
I'd also note that I found the line level writing to quite good as well, this was a VERY easy to read story. Easily able to be knocked off in an afternoon if you're willing to just sit and enjoy yourself.
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Girl Power edition by PT Dilloway Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
The ONLY reason I didn't give this book a 5 Stars is the author's style uses a persistent present tense that sometimes makes the story feel like a play by post role-playing game that can be a bit off-putting. Extremely good story otherwise.
This is just so bad. Patronizing and cringe worthy. Avoid.
excellent read. humorous. holds your attention. great characterization.
The book was interesting, funny and it kept my attention the whole time. Would have liked it if they were back to men again.
Girl Power is the newest "what if all the superheroes got turned into girls" story. While the author handled it well, there was nothing special about it. Same old storylines that have appeared in every version of this story type. Not a bad read, just nothing super.
I went in expecting silliness, nothing deep, maybe something fun or - possibly, if I was really lucky - something interesting or well done about gender differences or dealing with the way the world perceives you versus who you really are...
Instead... well... jeeze... just... Holy crap this is bad. I expected little to nothing, and I was still disappointed.
To be completely fair - the writing technically isn't bad, it's clear, flows and has few errors - good editing went into this and the author can put together a sentence.
Which is almost a shame because everything else about this is painful. The characters are unbelievably unreal, every choice made in the book makes no sense, everything is forced, the story itself is very weak (which I could honestly accept in a superhero novel if it developed a fun character or did anything else well... but nothing else works either here.)
I get it, it's not supposed to win awards... and it's a superhero book, I laughed but I'm not going to really nitpick when the author says gravity changes when you're in water, or that you can make an EMP device out of firecrackers and copper wire and magnets - but it doesn't even deliver at the "laughable super hero book" level. The few fight scenes were just... weak. The crammed in forced nonsensical sex scenes were weak. The vague and *really* cliched dialogue is weak. The conversations between every single character and every single person they talk to consist of either "evil badguy is totally evil" or "loser guy likes 'girl' and 'she' decides to sleep with him for no real reason." Usually within about three lines of talking. Motivation is absent. Reason is absent. Logic is absent. Emotions are absent. The characters just don't make sense (and are an insult to the originals if you care) and so... well, the story not being there on top of all of that does show through.
So, the worlds greatest heroes (superman, batman, aquaman and the flash - with different names but otherwise just cookie cutter copies) are turned into women... and what do these heroes do now that they have breasts?
They apparently lose their minds. I'm not a feminist or anything, at all, but even I found this portrayal of women pretty insulting.
According to this author - being a woman basically means
1. You cry constantly. Seriously, *every* conversation they have, they cry.
2. You abandon your family or loved ones... and sleep with lots of random people you just met. The married character decides to just have someone tell his wife and child - who he is constantly terribly missing and loves immensely (supposedly) - that he's dead. Rather than go home as a woman. Let that idea sink in for a minute. Do you have a family? Would you abandon them and tell them you were dead if you were hit by a magic ray that changed your gender? Then he/she proceeds to hook up with random people in a bar. Why? Because... um... well... the author thinks that's how marriage and parenthood work? Like, if an alien ray switched your gender tomorrow... you should just die? Your wife would stop caring about you? Or would rather you were dead? I don't know. It doesn't make any sense.
3. You give up all control of your life and your previous identity and just ... give up pretty much.
Batman gives up all control of his life. Seriously. BATMAN is like "I have boobs now and not as much upper body strength... so... yeah, I'll give up my fortune, let Alfred order me around like a kid now *and give up all control of my life*." and Alfred will look at the adult man he's raised and spent his life with, who he respects more than anyone on the planet, one of the strongest, smartest, most impressive people who exist - and because he looks younger and has boobs now... Alfred will force that grown adult man to go to high school again and treat him like a kid. What? Yep. Batman is forced to go to school again for no reason. Because Batman needs high school. Right. (And for the record... if the author had done *anything* with the situation - I might have been willing to go with it - I mean - Batman going to highschool? That *could* be awesome or funny... but it isn't. Nothing happens. A geek falls in love (in 3 lines of dialogue) with Batman and Batman is like... sure, come to my house and we'll work out together... because... because... yeah I don't know.)
There is just so much dumb in this book. And not in the fun way. This could have been super fun tongue in cheek. Or something interesting and insightful. Or heck, I would have taken shallow and full of action and romance. I love light books - this did not have to be that good for me to enjoy it, I enjoy fun silliness - I mean, I love super hero fic books... But... this is not any of those things. This is a very bland and, honestly, *dumb* book. If you want a book about heroes - go elsewhere, there aren't any in here. If you want a book about gender - go way far away from this. If you want a book about humans or one that makes sense - keep looking. If you want fun, or awesomeness, or comic book stuff or .. .yeah, not here.
This book puts forth the idea of being turned into a woman...and then just makes everyone (everyone!) look bad. You can try to put that into a message or something (make it about gender or whatever) - but I think the author just doesn't write people very well. That's the best case scenario really. If this is a collection of beliefs about women or something then it goes from bad to insulting. There's really nothing more than that here. It hurts.
Grats to the editor though? Only found a couple off words and the writing flows. It's a reasonably professional presentation of the book... just the content itself hurt.
The 4 heroes turned into girls are all rather obvious copies of Superman, Batman, The Flash and Aquaman as far as powers go. They are even somewhat similar in history in a couple of cases. This was the one thing that immediately jumped out at me.
But that would not have destroyed the story if it wasn't for the way the story unfolded. The villain and mystery were overly simple. There were a couple of moments when it was as if P.T. Dilloway got out a clue-by-four and just started bashing me with it. The conflicts were too simplified and obvious.
The writing was good, which redeemed part of the story, and the plot twist of having all 4 heroes turned into girls definitely was a risk, but the lack of clever or deep plotting brought the story down. This is a low 3 star in my opinion.
What if DC's mega-heroes, Superman, The Flash, Aquaman and Batman were turned into women?
Quite honestly, I'd never really considered the question, but after reading this, I think I like them all better this way. Girl Power is not a DC property, but the author made it clear that these are the archetypes that he's tackling in this short novel.
This really has the feel of a sliver-age story, where our good guys are good, and our bad guys are bad. And on a team mission early in the story, our four stars are irreversibly turned into women.
Then they have to figure out how to adjust.
I like it a great deal because this is a mash-up I've not seen before. Not that I'm an expert of superhero fiction, but it has that silver-age feel I mentioned before, mixed with the more literary story arc of people not being comfortable in their own skin.
What do you do when you come home to your wife and child and have to tell them you're a woman? Or if you're gay lover no longer has any interest in you because you're no longer a man.
Or, in the case of Starla, seeing sexism at every turn that your powerless to stop no matter how mighty you are.
And in the case of my favorite storyline, Midnight, our powerless hero that relies on wits, gadgets, and hard work, not only is he turned into a female, but a teenager at that. One that has to go back to high school and deal with teenage hormones.
I enjoyed this to no end. Yes, there is also the more traditional hero's story arc too, but that isn't where the brilliance lies, it's in the characters learning how to be good people first, not just heroes.
I'd also note that I found the line level writing to quite good as well, this was a VERY easy to read story. Easily able to be knocked off in an afternoon if you're willing to just sit and enjoy yourself.
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