The Regional Office is Under Attack!

Gonzales explodes the narrative and reassembles the shards into a time jumping story that switches from the expletive laden thoughts of a female operative to the dry conjecture of a research paper. It's a pop culture laden romp through the last days of a superhero initiative with nods to Die Hard, Minority Report, Karate Kid with a healthy dose of the X-Men, Morning Glories or the Umbrella Academy.

Given Gonzales' literary history it gets the literary fiction label with a side of genre instead of being placed firmly in YA where it could comfortably sit - less the grisly and funny interlude focused on the office drones that splits the book. And while I loved the action beats throughout I thought Daniel O'Malley's The Rook was the better version of this book.