Civil War (Book)

Title: Civil War

Author: Stuart Moore

Series/Trilogy: No

Pages: 352

 

Synopsis 

 

SPIDER-MAN

IRON MAN

CAPTAIN AMERICA

THE FANTASTIC FOUR

THE EPIC STORY THAT BLOWS THE MARVEL UNIVERSE APART!

Iron Man and Captain America: two core members of the Avengers, the world's greatest super hero team. When a tragic battle blows a hole in the city of Stamford, killing hundreds of people, the U.S. government demands that all superheroes unmask and register their powers. To Tony Stark - Iron Man - it's a regrettable but necessary step. To Captain America, it's an unbearable assault on civil liberties.

SO BEGINS THE CIVIL WAR

Personal Opinion

I´m starting to get into this world of comics xD when I heard that this movie is coming out this year I wanted to read the comic immediately, but I found a little surprise, there was a book! that caught my attention and I decided to give an opportunity to this book. But, speaking about the movie, there is a detail, apparently in the movie the reason of the dispute won´t be the same reason of the comic, and I don´t know but I think that it would be better if they would respect the original line of the comic.

I was saying that it caught my attention to see the comic turned into a book, I thought that it would be a great idea reading the book and reading the comic at the same time, and it was a great experience. There are some things that are different between the book and the comic but there are just little things, a dialogue said but a different character, for example, among others. In that aspect, I think that Stuart Moore made a good job with this book.

The story, for those who don´t know, begins with this big incident caused by Nitro, a villian who has the ability to explode, that incident left more than 900 deaths, and this is one of the ultimate cause for the gobernment to take measures to control super humans, that is the Superhuman Registration Act, which obliges everyone who wants to use powers in public to registrate and reveal their secret identity. There are some who support this because they believe that it is the best course of action, like Iron Man, but there are others who think that it is a violation to the civil liberties, like Captain America. These characters are going to lead both sides of this war.

The book is very fluent and it´s easy to read, there are many action parts, characters who switch side, friends against friends, etc. it is a good option to have a good time reading.

Which side was I? Team Cap, of course, because he is one of my favorite superheroes of marvel universe, and because even though I wasn´t entirely disagree with the intentions  of Iron Man, that got out of his control, and also Iron Man it´s not one of my favorite characters.

About the ending, I thought that I knew what was going to happen because I had heard some things, but it was different, and I liked it but it was a little disappointing for me. I can say that I´m more interested in this comic world now!  

I don´t know what else I can say,  I liked the book, it wasn´t something amazing either, but it made me have a great time reading, it made me laugh in some parts, particularly the scene when Peter Parker (Spiderman) is talking with his aunt May, that was so funny!. I liked more the comic than the book, because it is more visual than the book, but both made me have a good time.

And although I said that in the movie the cause of the war is going to be different (something related to Captain America best friend, Buck) I´m really excited to watch it.

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Are you excited to watch the movie? have you read the comic or the book? Iron Man or Captain America? Let me know in the comments below ;)

January Wrap Up

On January I could read just 7 books, but I think I enjoyed all the 7 books. You can check the review of each book if you click on the image.

You can also check my favorite quotes of each of these books here.

Have you read one of these books? Let me know in the comments below, I will be glad to read your comments :)

Glass Sword (Red Queen #2)

Title: Glass  Sword
Author: Victoria Aveyard
Series/Trilogy: Yes
Pages: 448

Synopsis

 

Mare Barrow’s blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control.

The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince—the friend—who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind.

Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors.

But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat.

Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever?

Personal Opinion 

Before starting with my thoughts about Glass Sword, I´d like to speak a little about my thoughts of the first book. Red Queen was a book that everybody was talking about, and all the people loved it, it was not long before I could read the book and I really loved it, I loved it too much that I couldn´t wait to read the second book; it is true that the story seems to be a mix of different books, but it didn´t bothered me and just enjoyed the book. Many people say that the book is very predictable, and yes, perhaps it is, but when I was reading Red Queen, I wasn´t expecting that ending! I was totally shocked, and that was the reason that Red Queen left high expectations on me, and Glass Sword didn´t meet them.

Now, speaking about the second book, it takes place at the point where Red Queen left us, we can see Mare running away from Maven, knowing that her brother Shade is alive and that she will have to go looking for people like her, people she must to find and protect before Maven find them.

I liked one thing on this book, and that is, since the beginning we have action, and we have action throughout the book, but, still, I felt very slow the first pages, I couldn´t keep reading, I had to read other books before I could finish this one, because I didn´t feel progress and it annoyed me, that was maybe one of the causes to the score I gave to the book, besides, it didn´t help that I read The Young Elites in the middle of Glass Sword, because I loved TYE and I couldn´t stop thinking and comparing Glass Sword with TYE, but once I did it, I  enjoyed more the story. The best of the book was the last 100 pages, because many things happen.

I dislike a little both Mare and Cal in this book, Mare is very much affected by Maven´s betrayal that it is almost impossible to her to trust on someone, even on her family. I also noticed in this book that  Mare is more selfish, like she doesn´t care people who die because she just want to achieve her goa and I didn´t like that, but in the end, the final decision made by Mare makes me expect more from her. It is clear that Cal is silver, and the last thing he wants to do is to ally with reds or trust on them, but still he´s helping in all that he can, training the people they are recruiting; I could say that I liked more Cal than Mare on this book, but there were some parts where I couldn´t stand him. I liked more Farley on this book, I didn´t care Kilorn and at some point I almost hated him. Shade is one of the new characters that I liked, is the kind of brother you´d like to have.

There was another thing I didn´t like and I felt it was unnecessary, we had a love triangle on Red Queen, and the author tried to involve another character on this, I won´t say anything but I think it could be better if the author would have done this since the first book.

As I said, the last 100 pages were the ones that made me want to keep reading, many things happen, I was amazed and I didn´t know where the things were going. That ending, I won´t say that I wasn´t shocked, but I think I was more shocked with Red Queen´s ending. In these last pages something happens and I was very happy about that, I liked it xD I wasn´t expecting it!

For those who were asking about the meaning of the title, it is not a weapon or a strange object, it is a metaphore.

Am I planning to read the third book? Yes, absolutely, but I don´t know what to expect, because althought I liked this book, I didn´t love it as I loved Red Queen.

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