Ever The Hero

Kit Baldwin is a self-admitted mess inside her own head so the tale she shares might seem to be a bit of a messy read too but it is worth your time. From the outset Kit demonstrates that she's a true hero by doing the right thing to help others despite being "just a regular non-Empowered person" while some Empowered folks do nothing because her city is behind on their payments for protection. From that opening begins an adventure of discovery and growth for Kit that isn't an easy path but I'm glad to have taken it with her.

This was interesting but a bit of a mess. The set-up and the ideas are fascinating, but there are too many times when the author's focus doesn't tell the story. A major development between two characters at the start gets glided over and we end up getting told a lot about the importance of their relationship, but it never feels like we've been shown it. Some parts when the narrative jumps around are part of a literary device and the stream-of-consciousness nature of the storytelling, but others feel like the author not checking on themselves. There are quite a few parts in this that feel like they really needed a good editing and proofreading before publication. The heart of the story and the key ideas are good, but the execution doesn't deliver on that promise.