And unfortunately, in culmination with recent news stories out of Alabama regarding certain Senate candidates, this story mirrors life in a way that has made my stomach turn. Mai, who is tasked with finding who murdered her uncle and making the decision between handing the killer over to either the police of her family, hates the man she is tasked to seek justice for. This could have been two 200-page novels, which could fully flesh out relationships, but instead, the novel makes you want more of it, simply so you can follow what is going on. It’s jarring to switch from the grit of the superhero world to the sweetness of romance that goes on for many more pages than the original set up. But while this story has romance and murder, the setup of a superhero world on earth, action, and adventure, there isn’t enough time to get to absorb any of it. I am for telling a story in the least amount of words for the most amount of impact. Does she turn the killer over to her family or the Enforcers? That is the crux of this novel. The trick is that the victim is her uncle, a Senator and who has previously made her life miserable. When Absolution kills a fellow “Meta” (super-powered entity), Mai is tasked with tracking them down for the safety of all of them. Mai, the outcast of her family for being “less” super powered than they, finds herself hunting down the killer Absolution, named so for the notes they left at the scene of the crime, asking for pardon from the crimes they committed. With that out of the way, let’s get into this book. Rather, these books are all superhero themed, without a continuation of worldview. I was under the impression that this would be a continuation of the previous book I had reviewed, Shattered by Lee Winter’s, and that this would be a collaborative effort between the authors.
Mercy is a blade that can cut both ways.Book two of YLVA Publishing’s Superheroine Collection, The Power of Mercy by Fiona Zedde continues in the vein of super-powered humanoid identity, but my original impression wasn’t correct.
Caught between giving a medal to the killer and being forced to find the murderer for her family, Mai must make the difficult choice between family loyalty and self-preservation. The dead politician turns out to be her uncle, a man who made her childhood a living hell. When a local politician is murdered and the police call Mercy in to help, the stability Mai has built out of past pain threatens to crumble. But when she puts on the costume to become Mercy, a rooftop-climbing chameleon with a thousand disguises and at least nine lives, she feels almost invincible.
Her shape-shifting power is nowhere near as impressive as their abilities to literally alter the world around them. Join us every other month on Zoom to read something sexy or thought-provoking and always feminist.
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