/lit/ - Literature

Anyone else read this?

It's like reading an shounen anime, complete with terrible one-liners, but I dig that shit so I was all over it.

The basic premise is boy becomes super-powered killed through dark and edgy means, world reacts in shock and horror. Unfortunately it didn't fully commit to that line - it really gets into it well toward the mid-point but pulls back from there instead of going even further beyond. For what it's worth though, while it was doing it, it did it well.

The actual plot took a while to get going but was fairly interesting. The political intrigue and worldbuilding were enjoyable. It was a bit front-loaded and so that took a bit of getting through. The prologue adds nothing, as prologues often do, although there's a callback to it at the end which is cool.

The bronze age African aesthetic was interesting... but not meaningful.

Prose is workmanlike.

Overall a 7.9 out of 10 on the genre fiction scale in my opinion. Utterly predictable, but ultimately enjoyable. Characters are not complex enough to warrant a higher rating. Themes insufficiently explored/absent. Plot was good and I liked the edge.

did anybody read this?