Wearing the Cape- Wearing the Cape
Marion G Harmon
- 10 juli 2011
- 9781463539658
Samenvatting:
WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO?Hope did, but she grew out of it. Which made her superhuman breakthrough in the Ashland Bombing, just before starting her freshman year at the University of Chicago, more than a little ironic.And now she has some decisions to make. Given the code-name "Astra" and invited to join the Sentinels, Chicagos premier super-team, will she take up the cape and mask and become a career superhero? Or will she get a handle on her new powers (super-strength has some serious drawbacks) and then get on with her life-plan?In a world where superheroes join unions and have agents, and the strongest and most photogenic ones become literal supercelebrities, the temptation to become a cape is strong. But the price can be highespecially if youre outed and lose the shield of your secret identity.Becoming a sidekick puts the decision off for awhile, but Hopes life is further complicated when The Teatime Anarchist, the supervillain responsible for the Ashland Bombing, takes an interest in her. Apparently as Astra, Hope is supposed to save the world. Or at least a significant part of it.------------------------Wearing the Cape is a 300-page superhero novel for anyone who ever loved comic-book heroes, and wonders how they might behave in the real world.