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This is a soft sci-fi but definitely more a contemporary read. I could not get into this at all. Probably because I like my sci-fi hard and contemporaries rarely.
3.5 starsA really fun take on superhero stories. Perfect action-filled, summer reading with just enough character development and twists to not make it boring Watch me discuss this book in my May wrap up: https://youtu.be/ouTm4bZ6TQw
An incredibly fun story with delightfully flawed superheroes, exciting action, and satisfying character growth—not to mention moments that’ll make you laugh out loud. I have all my fingers crossed I’ll get to see this on screen someday!
We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen A comic book in a novel format. Fantasy. A man with the ability to erase memories. A woman that can fly (kind of) and has super strength and catches criminals. Neither one of them know who they really are. They meet in an anonymous support meeting and become friends. I expected something extraordinary. What I got was comic book characters including the evil genius doing crazy experiments along with a moral lesson. The characters by definition were a bit flat to me...
Cheesy, to the point of nauseating, this was the book that had every cartoon comic stereotype dramatised to the point of yikes.When two people meet at a memory loss meeting, they discover eerily similar flashbacks of a fragmented past. What follows is a race against time to uncover the system turning people extraordinary. Sounds cool right?Wrong!! Could not be more wrong!!!This started so strong but then really veered left so quick. Bland, boring and stereotypically cheesy it became plainly obvi...
2.5 starsI loved the premise, and Chen always has such an honest and genuine tone in his books, but in the end I just didn't care for this.I much preferred A Beginning at the End, which demonstrates some similarly positive and affirming ideas in a better executed story.
EVERYWHERE WE GOWE CAN HAVE ALL THAT WE EVER WANTSWINGING LIKE ALIKNOCKING OUT BODIESSTANDING ON TOP LIKE A CHAMPIONKEEP YOUR SILVER, GIVE ME THAT GOLDYOU'LL REMEMBER WHEN I SAYWE CAN BE HEROESEVERYWHERE WE GOKEEPING US DOWN IS IMPOSSIBLECAUSE WE'RE UNSTOPPABLEsorry that's the first thing that pops into my head when I see this title I'll probably delete this
Would you still be the same person if you could blank state yourself? Chen explores this idea in his fast-paced superhero adventure. The story revolves around an unexpected friendship between villainous Jamie Sorenson (aka Mind Robber) and vigilante Zoe Wang (aka Throwing Star). After meeting at Memory Loss & Dementia Support Group, they discover they lost memory around the same time, two years ago. Zoe wants to learn about her past, Jamie wants to rob enough money to fly away to the Caribbean w...
3:5 would make a fun TV show and kept me turning pages. Quite different than the other Chen books I’ve read and this has humor fit for a comic book super hero a la the first Batman TV series. The other novels had more depth of character and plot but this was good for what it is.
If you are looking for a simple science fiction read with great platonic relationships, you came to the right place! Jamie and Zoe both have no recollection of their past. The only thing that's certain is that they have superpowers! Jamie can read minds and has been using his ability to rob banks, while Zoe has been using her speed and strength to fight the criminals in her city. Forced to attend a support group, an event occurs when they find out each held on to the same secret. Left with no on...
Real Rating: 3.5* of five, rounded up because there's no way I don't want to read his next book!I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA EDELWEISS+. THANK YOU.My Review: First, read this:“I’ll figure something out” probably wound up being the last sentence said by a lot of people in difficult scenarios.–and–“If you're the one everyone relies on, if you take on people's burdens, sometimes there's just not that much left of you.”There. That's the emotional core of this read, as I see it anyway; how...
Working on a blog tour post tonight for this hero-tastic book! Will put link to the post here once I’m finished! :)___________________________Check out my Blog Tour Post for this ARC here:http://vicariouslyvoraciously.com/rev...___________________________ I began reading this ready for your average super hero story but that is not what I got. I got a story about your average humans who just happen to wake up with no recollection of who they were prior to opening their eyes, but with extraordinar...
3.75 out of 5 stars.If I had to put this book in the Alignment Chart I would undoubtedly put this under the 'Chaotic Good' category. But of course that is just my personal opinion about the book.
*4.5 round to 5* A book about flawed heroes, being friends, representation...and PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS. Seriously, we need more of these. I know so many other reviews have stated this, but by god so am I because we so desperately need more books without romance. I could go on a RANT about this - about how platonic relationships should be valued just like romantic ones, about how mainstream media (including literature) doesn't include these enough...but I'll stop myself. This book, despite the o...
We Could Be Heroes (2021) is not your typical superhero story, which I think is why I enjoyed it so much! The good versus evil binary often found in these stories is mostly absent here, with our two "heroes" (Zoe and Jamie) trying to recover mysterious holes in their memories first and foremost. Saving the day is far from both of their minds as they try to navigate their respective day-to-day lives. Not to mention our "villain" is a scientist out to cure world hunger. Our two misfit main charact...
1/26/21: happy book birthday!! (aka release date)GIVE ME MORE PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS IN LITERATURE. thank you.This book was such a wholesome story under complicated circumstances and I was so attached to the main characters T_T — overall thoughts: 4.5 — “Extraordinary comes in many forms. You never realized that, and that pushed her to find it elsewhere.” I loved that this wasn’t a romance, which might be a deal breaker for some people but it was so refreshing to read about the platonic relati...
Two misfits whose memories are erased turning into reluctant heroes: a mind robber and greatest fae combining their powers for greater good but their main motivation is discovering who they really are! Well: I personally enjoyed the diversity and LGBT representation of the story with its relatable MCs Zoe and Jamie who team up to find their mysterious origins. They’re not born to be heroes but now they are forced to adapt in their changing lives but forming a proper future life depends on where
We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen was one of those books that I liked but other than that it wasn't anything too special, in my honest opinion. I really wanted to like it so much more than I did but the story in general just left me wanting more, unfortunately. It was good enough to read once but that's where it stopped for me.The book featured a hero and villain who have superhuman powers. Zoe a.k.a the Throwing Star, who has super speed, super strenght, can fly and who kicks criminals' ass and s...
The reason I enjoy Mike Chen’s books so much is because I seem to get really attached to his characters. And We Could Be Heroes was no exception.I immediately was drawn to Jamie, a bank robber who awoke 2 years ago with no memories of his life before, but who discovered he was able to read other’s memories and erase whatever memories he chose. During his bank robberies, he would gently erase all memories of himself and the bank robberies.Zoe was a little harder to warm to. She also woke up 2 yea...
I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen is an enthralling and diverse superhero sci-fi novel. I was hooked right from the beginning and it was very easy to speed right through it. I'm really glad I took a chance on this because I've been pretty impressed by his two previous novels and I really appreciated his style when it comes to the superhero genre. His world-building skills are as always top-notch and I also found myself quite investe...