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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/645180.Soon_I_Will_Be_Invincible_A_Novel?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1176689611m/645180.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/645180.Soon_I_Will_Be_Invincible_A_Novel?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/71155.Austin_Grossman">Austin Grossman</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18526740?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 2 of 5 stars<br/>First chapter of this book is very promising. But then it seems to go amiss. It is essentially a superhero novel. 1/2 is told from the point of view of the mad scientist (these are the best parts) and half is told from a new super hero. A cyborg who is unsure of her beginings. The point of views alternate by chapter. The story itself is a combination of flash backs, almost like memoirs, and the present story which circulates around the mad scientist's, Dr. Impossible's, escape from prison and the best superhero in the world suddenly going missing. It is sectioned into three parts. <br/> <br/>Part one is basically all flash backs and build up. Dr. Impossible's parts are interesting and well written. Fatale, the superhero's, are a little too... cyborg I guess. She doesn't remember who she used to be, so save a few flash backs of her surgerory, her chapters make up her observations of the other superheroes. It's all a little too drawn out and between what she observes and Dr. Impossible obsesses about the whole thing really starts to become redundent. <br/> <br/>Part two, gets better. The present story starts to take action, so Fatale's bits are more interesting. Sadly there is this portion where she watches this 6 hour video/documetary of the Champions (the old superhero group) and basically narrates the whole thing. <br/> <br/>Part three, is by far the best. The story comes to climax. They summerize fights pretty good, things actually get explained. So forth. Plus, Lily, a charecter mentioned often from both pov's actually becomes very important. I wish this would have happened sooner. <br/> <br/>As far as writing style goes Grossman is a bit confussing. I'm not tottally sure what anyone really looks like or where they are standing at any given time. Once I get a picture in my head the narration says something or something happens that makes that set up, or image, impossible. <br/> <br/>In short this could have been much better as a collection of memoirs of different superheroes, or from the view of Dr. Impossible and someone other than Fatale. Dr. impossible has the first and last say and admittedly the whole novel is tinted with the villian view, the heroes being kind of mundane. They still flourish in the end, but that's what they do. That's the point. <br/> <br/>So over all it was ok. If you're really into superheores go for it. The parts from Dr. Impossible are at least worth it <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1019655?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>