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Going Through the Change Paperback – April 23, 2015
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- Print length250 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCuriosity Quills Press
- Publication dateApril 23, 2015
- Dimensions5.98 x 0.57 x 9.02 inches
- ISBN-101620078414
- ISBN-13978-1620078419
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- Publisher : Curiosity Quills Press (April 23, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 250 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1620078414
- ISBN-13 : 978-1620078419
- Item Weight : 13.1 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.98 x 0.57 x 9.02 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #7,078,627 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #7,546 in Women's Adventure Fiction (Books)
- #15,210 in Superhero Science Fiction
- #94,656 in Contemporary Women Fiction
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Samantha Bryant believes in love, magic, and unexplainable connections between people. Her favorite things are lonely beaches, untamed cliff tops, sunlight through the leaves of trees, summer rains, and children's laughter. She lives in North Carolina, grew up in Kentucky, and left her heart in Alaska. She is fierce at heart, though she doesn't look it.
She reads poetry and comic books, sometimes on the same day because she contains multitudes.
She writes blogs, poems, essays, and novels. Mostly she writes about things that scare or worry her because writing is a great work to work things out. Someday, she hopes to make her living solely as a writer. In the meantime, she also teaches middle school Spanish, which, admittedly, is an odd choice for money-earning, especially in North Carolina.
When she's not writing or teaching, Samantha enjoys time with her family, watching old movies, baking, reading, and going places. Her favorite gift is tickets (to just about anything).
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The premise is good. Four women going through menopause who change into supernatural beings because of a certain woman's products. There's a lot of fun to be had here. It's not your typical superhero fare. One woman becomes a villain and the other three become the heroes and the race is on to catch the evil product making villain who made them this way. Granted this isn't the most amazing plot ever, but it works for the story. The action scenes were fun to read and the settings where easy to picture in my mind, even the characters were clearly defined. This book was just awesome…. in the second half. That was the problem I hit 55% or so on my reader before it got this amazing, and was completely bored to tears with the dragging plot development slow-paced blah.
The writer writes well, the introduction to all characters clearly mapped who they were out very well individualy and in context with the people in their seperate story lines. And this was done in good time. But after that the check list is like, background stories--check, villains and heroes clearly identified-check, character personalty types identified-check, story moving forward-no. Pages and pages of figuring out stuff none of the characters where designed to be stupid enough not to figure out.
For example how do you live your life the same everyday, change one thing in this case a tea, start flying and never quite literaly until the third act question why you are floating. People don't just wake up flying in the real world, something must have changed in your routien. I don't think she ever took a step back to analise the situation and even after the person who made the special tea took interest in her situation and offered to help the lightbulb still did not go off. I just couldn't believe she'd be that unaware of herself. Also, how do you go from a short petit woman to an over six foot man, know exactly how it happened and not once try to rectify it. Just 'okay I'm a man now', after over forty years of life. If I woke up a woman yes I would go straight to my doctor to find out what the hell happened and we need to take some test lock me in a lab and lets get me back to normal imediately. I couldn't go along for that ride either. Two points in the book that dragged on for me and especially if you know you used to be a woman and you know why you're not anymore and this new friend flies and is clearly distraught about it, sharing would be the best to let her know she is not alone, and furthermore the tea busniess she is woefully unaware of wouldv'e been solved a good 20 or more pages faster.
The same for the best friend who becomes bullet proof. Turning into a monster and you become your friends lab rat, your friend is a genius and yet you are still turning into a monster and it never occurs to you she is not trying to fix you. The only person with the good sense to know what was going on was the woman with fire, she went straight to the source and willingly went forward. The irony of that is that she ended up being the villain and just as completly psycho as our main villain.
Basically once I knew who and what the characters where about the story just went on forever as if no one was concerened at all with the fact they were changing. Getting sick is one thing, but sex changes, species changes and super power gettings, that's stuff you try to sort out imediately in hopes you can either fix it or know for sure you can't and how to get on with it. These characters seemed to just float on endlessly through stuff that if i skipped from after all the intorductions to the catalyst in the middle, which i shall call the 'tea' incident, i would've probably gave this book an eleven out of ten.
Lastly the premise that only these women changed because of menopause is shakey, why didn't it affect all other menopausal women taking the products? I guess I was expecting something deeper. And the crew failed to come together with a cleary defiend leader. Bands of superheroes tend to have their roles clearly defined in a group. Thats what the first book is for. I know what their powers are, their motivations, their personalities, but their roles in the group and how that makes them work together, the book never quite got there, not even at the end. They were still kind of looking at one person for a plan, but i never got the impression they expected one from all the arguments they kept having. It was just she was used to making plans so by defualt they stared at her. If anything, the intern should be the woman in charge, she had her act together and a sans superpower leader might be what they need to get it together.
So hate aside, this book somehow managed to go from zero to fun and awesome. Boredom to high action, whoa this writer can write. It was fun light reading and easy to follow and way interesting once the whole 'tea' incident happened. I honestly couldn't stop reading. The rythm pacing, hell everything about the whole second half of this book was almost too good to be true, like i wasn't reading the same book. Usually after a few chapters if i don't like it, i stop reading, but I read on and I'm actually glad I did this time. Pleasantly surprised, and if this second half is an indication of what this author can do I am on board for the next installment of this series, i didn't think it would be a series but I'm not complaining.
Still? The idea of menopausal women gaining super powers is inherently funny. I mean, why NOT harness those annoying hot flashes, and turn them into fireballs a gal can throw around? And why suffer from bloating and belching when a saggy old broad can finally put all that gas to good use by using it to defy gravity? I mean, just think of all the money and aggravation a gal could save if she were able to fly wherever she wanted without having to be strapped into an airplane in front of a kicking loud-mouthed kid... or having to wait in those interminable airport lines? And itchy skin? What the heck; why not just be done with it and develop bullet-proof scales and plates? You never can tell when that might come in handy. The fourth member of our menopausal quartet has a slightly different change. She no longer has to ask her husband for help opening a pickle jar. Or for help reaching something on the top shelf... or moving heavy furniture. See, the change makes her much taller, beefier, and endows her with super strength, a deeper voice and LOTS of facial hair. It has also endowed her with a... penis.
See? Lots of untapped potential there for laughs.
However, even though the book disappointed me for its lack of humor, it was still a somewhat enjoyable read. It was definitely DIFFERENT. One downside for me that it's a (gasp!) cliffhanger. I hate cliffhangers, because they don't provide a satisfactory ending. They're just jumping boards to coerce readers into buying and reading the next book in the series. Series, I can handle. Cliffhangers are just plain annoying and manipulative.
That being said, I will more than likely read the second book in this series. I'm hopeful that there will be more humor in it. If not, I'm still willing to give it a chance. I mean, how often do you get to read about old gal superheroes?
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I liked the cast of characters, apart from Helen and the crazy scientist. The situations are a little bizarre, though fun.
The only downfall is that it is occasionally confusing when it swaps between characters, but that may not worry everyone. A good book still.



