Would you read another book with a plot like Harry Potter?

[Racheal]

I am an Indie author who is on a mission to get my book, JUST FOR KICKS traditionally published. (Click book title to read more)

I have been told the synopsis and plot sounds like Harry Potter, but reminds people of the following: Juno (mainly her personality), Kick Ass, Hancock, as well as Pippi Longstocking.

That's all fine with me, except I wonder.... will readers be willing to read a book that sounds too much like Harry Potter? Or will they blow it off?

My book is like Harry Potter in the plot (that is, until you get to the real huge plot twist). However, it's nothing like Harry Potter in general. Here is my synopsis if you have not gone to the above link.

Souls are at stake, the world needs a hero, and snarky Meriwether Brookes is the right girl for the job.

Meriwether Brookes is a prank-pulling genius. With her most recent escapade landing her an expulsion, she is taken away from the only place that has ever felt like home and put back into the foster system, yet again. Then, a girl flying outside her bedroom window turns Meri's life upside down when she tells Meri she is a Super (superhero), and that Meri is one as well.

It's a hard-knock life being a 14-year-old orphan, but things aren't about to get any easier as she faces her destiny as the only Super who can defeat the Shadowmaker: the very villain who killed her parents. As Meri prepares for her showdown with the Shadowmaker, she uncovers a well kept secret that will change everything.

Thanks! :)

[♥ Alexia -Team Malec ♥]

Sounds awesome!!!!!!
Is it self-published? Because if it is, i want to read it! have you put a copyright on it. Please do, i'd hate for it to get stolen.

[[deleted user]]

I will read it. HP is so popular, I imagine that people will want to read a book like it. Good luck!

[Micaela]

I think it sounds really good and I would read it :D

[Salam]

I would honestly not be too caught up with the fact that the plot sounds too much like Harry Potter, simply because most stories have an unlikely hero who is ready to defeat the evil that has taken the one thing most dear to him/her; family. I just wouldn't draw too much attention to the similarities, and no one will notice them.
I can tell you that most books I read remind me of Harry Potter, but that is because I love the books and have grown with them and so naturally they grew on me. For example, when I started reading Christopher Paolini's Inheritence Cycle, I found many parallels between Eragon and Harry Potter becuase I was looking for them.
So at the end of this essay, I would conclude that I would read your book because it sounds interesting and a plot twist is always something readers are looking for.

[Evek]

I would love to read it!It sounds interesting and exciting. You shouldn't worry. Salam's first point is right. :)
Good Luck! :D

[Racheal]

Thank you all very much! I appreciate your opinions. I am actually going to be querying for this book, so perhaps it will be picked up by an agent and then published. If not, I will self-publish. I tend to over-think things and worry. I am a HUGE worrier. I have bitten my nails down to the flesh over this! Thank you!

Racheal McGillivary

[Andrea]

YES

[Marisa]

I would totally read this! It sounds amazing! Where can I get a copy of it?

[Currer]

That sounds like a really cool story with a cool unlikely hero. Go for it. Neil Gaiman says that it's not what you write, it's what you do with it. A story will be your own if you have love for your characters and what you're writing.

[[deleted user]]

OMG WOW! It's totally incredible! I want more! :}

[Weiting]

Racheal wrote: "I am an Indie author who is on a mission to get my book, JUST FOR KICKS traditionally published. (Click book title to read more)

I have been told the synopsis and plot sounds like Harry Potter, ..."

That's amazing!
Oh please also post it online!
Books ever hardly come to the country I am current living on, here we don't have many libraries. :(