Wearing the Cape: A Superhero Story

An average read with somewhat interesting characters. Hope is a young woman who is a “breakthrough” - someone who receives their powers after “the event” that gave most other people theirs. She is recruited to join the top superhero team in the state, The Sentinals, as a sidekick while she decides what she wants to do with her powers.

The pacing of the story was pretty good. There was lots of action and we learned a lot about the world that Hope found herself in. However I felt like there was a bit much telling and not enough showing, and we didn't really see enough of what Hope was feeling about her situation in my opinion. Hope seemed pretty generic. I found several other characters more interesting and wished the story was focusing on them instead!

Some of Hope's relationships felt rushed, especially the romantic one. I understand that certain events were supposed to help Hope make her decision in the end, but I would have liked to see the relationship stretched out over a couple of books, to have seen some growth from the characters before the talk of marriage came up.

I did feel at times that the religious side of Hope was forced upon me as a reader. Hope's symbol was similar to the Star of Bethlehem, her conversations with her priest, her catholic ideals etc I felt like some of it wasn't really necessary to the story. But that said, it was minimal and the story was good regardless.

All in all I felt Wearing the Cape was a great start to a series.

I'm a comic book geek and I enjoy super-hero novels. Wearing the Cape was the origin story of Astra, a Super Girl type hero and follows her from getting her powers to saving the world. I like the book and gave it three stars because I didn't really connect with the character of Astra. There are many other heroes in Wearing the Cape that I would have rather read about.