This book caught up with Faith as she was trying to resume some semblance of normalcy after the crazy start to her senior year we saw in Faith Taking Flight. She was coming to terms with the crazy turn things took with Dakota. Dealing with Grandma and her failing mind. And planning the remaining part of her senior year and life after high school with best friends Ches and Matt, but for the genesis story of superheroes things can never be quite that clean cut. A string of arsons and the surprisin...

Trigger & Content Warnings StrangulationPhysical assaultFireLoss of autonomy (mind control)

Faith: Greater Heights (Faith Herbert Origin Story #2) by Julie Murphy MY RATING: 3.5/5 starsThis is the first title I've read by Julie Murphy but I have seen the movie adaptation of her book, Dumplin’. This book is the second and final book in the Faith Herbert series. I've read that there is a standalone movie set to be released about the Faith Herbert character. I had not read the first book of the series before reading this one but I don't think you need to read the first in order to read th...

This book reminds me of my disdain for books set in high school. I’m probably going to sound like a total boomer but it is what it is. Honestly, the beginning wasn’t too bad. I was invested in the return of Dakota and Colleen and how everything connected. But this book ended up being more frustrating and corny than I would have liked. Characters - A lot of people have been saying that Faith is less likable in this book and I can see why but I disagree. She is a shitty friend to Matt and aches bu...

Thank you to both the publisher, Harper Collins, and NetGalley for the opportunity to review an advanced copy of Faith: Greater Heights. I read the first book, Faith: Taking Flight, about this time last year and quite enjoyed it. This sequel does a fantastic job picking back up, where it reminds you of all the characters and plot points you need to follow without wasting any of the action on recapping everything. I was drawn right back in to Faith's world and was excited to see where she would g...

Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins Children's Books for the opportunity to review an ARC of this title.Faith: Greater Heights by Julie Murphy is the sequel to Faith: Taking Flight. This book is the continuation of Faith's story. She's learned to embrace her power to fly and is attempting to get back living her "regular life" and dealing with the challenges that come with that. However, things quickly take a turn as Faith's grandmother decides to move into an assisted living facility, the n...

Thank you to HarperCollins and NetGalley for providing me a digital ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.I bought Faith: Taking Flight last year on something of a whim, not knowing what to expect from a novel adapted from a comic series, and written by Julie Murphy at that (my understanding, though I hadn't read them yet, was that her other books were pretty different from that one). It turned out to be a pretty fun and engaging read, which is why I was excited to see this title com...

* Thanks to NetGalley for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review! *Going into this book, I did not realize it was a sequel! I requested it solely because I liked the cover and recognized the author. So when I began to read it I was a little confused. But using context clues I was able to power through the book and enjoyed reading it quite a bit. My favorite part of this book was definitely the characters. Faith is a lovely protagonist. She has flaws and makes mistakes but ultimately

Faith Herbert is ready to end her senior year as normally as possible- or as normal as can be expected for a teenager who can fly and is compelled to help keep her community safe. Even this semblance of "normal" is disrupted though when her grandmother decides that her episodes of dementia have made it necessary to move into a facility where she can have around-the-clock care. Faith is not ready for this change, but will have to tackle it along with all the other challenges that keep cropping up...

I liked this sequel to Faith: Taking Flight. I love what Julie Murphy does with faith as a fat and queer character! This was a little slow in parts and sometimes felt like not all the information was needed, and more action would have been better. I'm excited to see where Faith goes next!

3.5 starsI have to admit to not being at all familiar with the character of Faith Herbert before reading Faith: Taking Flight. I'm sure having some insight into the character prior to reading this two-part origin story would be useful. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed learning about Faith and her friends while reading the first book. I'm always happy to see a young person embracing their body as it is, and the world just needs more female superheroes. While the first Faith book was action-packed

I do not understand all the negative reviews. This is a book for high schoolers set in a high school. Not sure why people were expecting something else from a superhero YA. The story arc leading up to and through prom felt tropey in a comforting way, not an overdone way. And it didn't end with everything nice and tidy but still satisfying enough for me to cope while waiting for book three (hopefully)!

First off, Goodreads & NetGalley need to stop advertising this series as a graphic novel...it's not...lol. Secondly, thanks to NetGalley & HarperCollins Children's Books for the early copy in exchange for an honest review. Sadly, DNF at 15%.Faith: Greater Heights is a sequel that continues to follow Faith's super-adventures after the first book. Faith has the ability to fly, but in this book, she has to pick up the pieces of the last adventure while juggling her much-changed home life. I tried r...

I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS.I'm excited to see what adventures Faith goes on this time around :)The cover is beautiful!If you see this Mrs. Julie, Your one of my favorite authors, I've read all your books and loved them all!Love you queen. <3

I was rather hard pressed to rate this. It's not technically a badly written but there are so many irksome things to it that it's lucky I didn't rate it lower. I know Murphy is writing around an established comic book series (that I somehow missed in spite of it being out at a time I very actively haunted comic book stores) but so much of this felt open ended and unsatisfying but that wasn't my biggest issue.What bothered me most is Faith is frankly a crappy friend, there I said it. She was sort...

This does a great job of picking up where Faith: Taking Flight left off. It's the second semester of Faith's senior year. She's still coping with what her ex, Dakota, did to her in the last book while also dealing with her Grandma Lou's dementia. (Yeah, it's a lot for a teenager, especially while also recently gaining the power to fly.) Meanwhile, pyrokinetic Colleen has returned to school and seems all kinds of shady. Of course, there's still the larger mystery out there about the drug, A+,...

An exact secondary novel for this series. Just okay, but I didn't overly love or hate it. I was thankful for all the subtle refreshers to help me recall moments that didn't last in my memory from the first book. Guess that's a sobering realization that Taking Flight also didn't leave a lasting impression other than the freak out the first few chapters gave me.

This was such a great read! Really enjoyed Faith's continuing story, and she does deal with a lot of life changes! Though I am sad, because it seems like the comics that this duology is a prequal series to, goes in a different direction for Faith. Bah!

Faith: Greater Heights is the second novel in Julie Murphy's Faith Herbert Origin Story series. If you don't know who Faith is, I would strongly recommend going and checking out the graphic novel series (by Valiant) surrounding the character. That being said, you don't need to be up to date in her story to appreciate these novels – they're origin stories, after all. They're designed to be approachable and fun. So this would be the perfect starting point for new readers! To be super clear - Faith...