I expected something more similar to "The Boys" than "Avengers" or "X-Men", so for a while I felt a bit disappointed. However, once I accepted this book for what it is, I enjoyed it considerably, and I don't need to watch hundreds of movies or read thousands of comics to understand what's going on.

The main word to describe this book is "entertaining": it's action-packed and there are multiple characters, so you'll always find one plot that interests you. Despite (some of) them being "villains", most are likable and good people. And some powers are super original and well-thought! I really liked the world that the author has created for these books.

The writing is simple and easy to follow. It's basically like watching a TV show but inside a book. However, I think the book could have benefited from a word cut because there's a lot of over-explaining, especially in the second half. This gets really bad (and takes me out of the story) when apart from showing AND telling, the author makes the characters (unnecessarily) say out loud the conclusions they have reached, how are they feeling or something else that the reader already had understood from the previous sentences. It feels like when villains explain their evil plans in kids movies. I don't need this book to be 100% adult but I would like the author to expect something more from the reader.

With 200 pages less, I would have finished this book feeling more excited to read the next ones, but I'm gonna read them anyway. The diminished excitement will only make me wait a bit more to do that 🙂