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Velveteen Vs. The Multiverse (2013)

by Seanan McGuire(Favorite Author)

4.53 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

ISFiC Press

series

Velveteen vs.

review 1: The sequel to Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots, Seanan's stories are... well, they're Seanan's stories. Full of young women who can do anything. It's entertaining, but had the same problem as the first book in the series. Because she wrote these as independent short stories on her blog whenever someone donated enough money they don't read like they've been edited well. The plot and characters are fascinating, but the pacing is off, and there are a lot of weird tangents and assumptions that make it clear she's playing to an audience rather than working on writing the story as cohesively as possible. I also had to stop for a month and facepalm repeatedly to get over the constant thread of "Santa Claus is real and every culture has an old man winter spirit who is Good ... moreand Kind and Rewards Good Children" because it got on my nerves. That said, as all Seanan Mcguire books are, it was a fun romp, with enough tearjerker angst to give it a bit of a bite.
review 2: Incredibly warm, thoughtful, moving, and funny novel / story cycle about a bunch of silly super heroes--along with its predecessor, this is easily one of my favorite books. I read both of them aloud to my wife, and we laughed, speculated about the plot, and teared up together in complete agreement about how good they were. I have had only a mildly positive reaction to other work by the same author (Newsflesh / InCryptid), but in view of how amazing this was, I am definitely going to try out her other series. less

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