Björn recenserade Turbulence av Samit Basu
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2 stjärnor
Will it all end, as eighty years of superhero fiction suggest, in a meaningless, explosive slugfest?
Yes. Yes it will.
I like the idea of this book; a non-US-centric take on the superhero myth, challenging the way the world is set up to work, etc. And for the first couple of chapters, I hold out hope that it'll be a fun mashup of, say, Heroes and The Satanic Verses. In the end, though, despite a few hints at interesting ideas, I find myself bored with it by the halfway mark. The characters are flat and fickle, Basu's prose reads like an excited fan's retelling of any action-laden MCU movie, and the only thing that makes me finish the book is that I'd forgotten to bring another one.
Will it all end, as eighty years of superhero fiction suggest, in a meaningless, explosive slugfest?
Yes. Yes it will.
I like the idea of this book; a non-US-centric take on the superhero myth, challenging the way the world is set up to work, etc. And for the first couple of chapters, I hold out hope that it'll be a fun mashup of, say, Heroes and The Satanic Verses. In the end, though, despite a few hints at interesting ideas, I find myself bored with it by the halfway mark. The characters are flat and fickle, Basu's prose reads like an excited fan's retelling of any action-laden MCU movie, and the only thing that makes me finish the book is that I'd forgotten to bring another one.