DC Comics novels - Harley Quinn: Mad Love
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The definitive story of Harley Quinn by her co-creator, Paul Dini, and Pat Cadigan, revealing the secrets of her history even as she seeks to kill Batman. When she was only seven years old, Harleen Quinzel witnessed her father being beaten up by thugs, and then arrested by the police. That night she ran away to the safest place she could think of: Coney Island amusement park. But there, pursued into the Funhouse by the men who brutalised her father, she beheld unimaginable horrors. Years later, Harleen has put her past behind her, and used her intelligence and ambition to escape her childhood of poverty with a career in psychiatry. Assigned to her first position at Arkham Hospital, she will discover, deep in the asylum, something dangerous and alluring, something quite unlike anything else she has ever known before: The Joker. Because why would you settle for love, when you could have MAD LOVE? From the moment that Harleen finds a rose on her desk, to the moment she dons her harlequin hat, this is the definitive story that chronicles the obsession, the burning desire, the manic laughter, and the birth of one of the most controversial and popular comic book supervillains ever created: Harley Quinn. Copyright © 2017 DC Comics. BATMAN, THE JOKER, HARLEY QUINN, SUICIDE SQUAD and all related characters and elements © & TM DC Comics and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
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I really enjoyed about 3/4 of this book. I am not a Harley Quinn fan. I have never been a Harley Quinn fan, but it was interesting to read about her life as a child and as a psychiatrist. I had a problem with a certain section in the book that was added for no other reason but for a politically correct inclusion of a certain type of person. I have no problem with inclusion, if it was important to the story. This section that was added served no purpose and was unnecessary to the story, since the character does nothing to advance the storyline. It felt forced, it read as forced and it almost turned me off to the rest of the book. I did finish it and was disappointed in Harley's transformation in the end. I give it 4 stars because the first 3/4 of the book was so interesting enough to warrant that rating.
