The Silver Ninja

author: Wilmar Luna

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.23

book published: 2012

rating: 2

read at: 2013/06/11

date added: 2013/06/11

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A wife stumbles on her scientist husband's secret project and unwittingly becomes a superhero, of sorts. When the suit becomes part of her skin, she finds herself doing unimaginable things that are both good and bad. The suit gives her power, but corrupts her personality in unexpected ways. She becomes a paid assassin for hire, and then she must choose what she really wants to be and what is really worth fighting for.



I don't know if the author's intent was to write in an overblown comic book style, but the flowery language and overuse of simile made it tough for me to finish. Yet, finish it, I did. I'm just glad there wasn't a overabundance of alliteration (like Stan Lee used in classic Marvel comics).



By the end, I found the main character to be tough to like. She seemed to go from self-obsessed to an emotional wreck. Some of that was caused by the suit, but some of it wasn't. It feels like most of the conversations in the book should have been full of exclamation points, and it seems like characters that supposedly have good relationships are constantly on the verge of hair-trigger arguing and tantrums. For an independent book, it's got a really great cover. Your mileage may vary.





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