High atop the Fortress of Liberty...The life of a super-hero is not all it's cracked up to be. Just ask Wyatt Ferral, one of the city's cape-wearing favorite sons. For one thing, he can't stand the other heroes, and is starting to see that they aren't especially heroic. Plus, he's forced to wear stupid looking spandex costumes, and his unauthorized biographies are filled with glaring inaccuracies. Heroing is so isolating. Some days, he just wants to walk away from it all and have a real life. All it would take is one personal tragedy to push him over the edge...Meanwhile at the Consortium of Chaos...The life of a super-villain is a blast, just ask the super-villainess known as "Harlot." Just because you're dedicated to evil doesn't mean you can't have a little fun, right? So, when the almost forgotten hero Wyatt Ferral walks into the Consortium's headquarters one day and says that he has a plan, she's intrigued. Can Wyatt help their troubled organization finally succeed in one of their world domination schemes? Can she keep her fellow villains from killing the handsome hero long enough to hear what he has to say? Will he see the subtle but important distinction between collecting his memorabilia and stalking him? Was his Hero swimsuit calendar photoshopped, or do his abs actually really look like that? So many important questions...
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I really tried with this book. Really. I'm a big fan of Cassandra Gannon, whose books I discovered last year, and Yesterday's Heroes was written by her sister. The synopsis made me think of The Boys, one my favorite TV shows, so I was intrigued and pretty excited at the idea to read it. But gosh was I bored reading it.
I didn't care much about how this guy mentioned one time and who isn't relevant to the story at all is named Brussels Sprouts the Third and kidnapped puppies and made them fight cobras in an alligator farm. I didn't give a damn as well about what he is thinking, even less when his point of view was followed by many more in the same vein. It felt so superficial to me. Like all these characters had one job: info-dumping on the world-building. And gosh was the info-dumping thick at times, the size of a dwarf moon crashing into Pluto.
What also bothered me were the numbers of monologues the characters had in their heads or even conversing with others. It helped to understand them and know them, that's for sure, but it was really redundant at times. The worst of it was when the ML was introducing a bunch of characters in a row at the beginning and just listed all their history. It seemed like it would never end and I hated it. But what got on my nerves the most was the way the FL, a grown ass woman of 27 yo, was so naive and unknowing of so many basic things... She didn't seem to understand irony and sarcasm, or why some people would possibly search to avoid conflicts by attending meetings that always involved fights and arguments. If she had her moments, most of the time she was oblivious and lacked hindsight on a lot of things. Her relationship with the ML was also insta-lusty, which isn't my jam. However, he was the only saving grace in this book for me. I really liked him: he is grounded, rational and sarcastic and has been through a lot. Apart from his character, I didn't have a great time reading Yesterday's Heroes.
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1 primary book2 released booksConsortium of Chaos is a 2-book series with 1 primary work first released in 2012 with contributions by Elizabeth Gannon.
