To friends and family there is nothing remarkable about Justin Cade. Seeing only an awkward, sometimes isolated high school sophomore they would never suspect that he lives a double life as Milestone City’s protector: the holographic heroine known as Glimmer Girl.
Juggling school, superherodom and his own skewed sense of self Justin starts down the road of transition into Kaira. Though the path isn’t easy and is fraught with peril, both as a hero as a mere mortal.
Tags: action · adventure · family drama · high school · science fiction · series · superhero · teenagers
Listed: Jul 15, 2008
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Shimmer rocks my socks. It has an action-packed plot, interesting characters, and a wealth of superhero lore to support its storylines. Reading through, it’s almost as though I’m viewing one of my favorite comic books—it reads beautifully.
Shimmer also handles some difficult issues, including identity, secrets, family, and gender construction. They’re not just thrown around for the shock factor, but are actually examined in a well-integrated fashion.
The only thing I wasn’t keen on, when reading Shimmer, was that it has a tendency to skip around in the timeline. The skips aren’t always well-integrated, and left me going, "huh" a lot of the time. However, the skips are always explained, and everything levels out eventually.
Shimmer is a must-read for superhero fiction fans. ^^
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A book called "Soon I Will be Invincible" helped give superhero fiction a shot in the arm – it started a new genre of superhero books. Original superhero stories, not novelisations of the already famous heroes who have sunk into the public consciousness.
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I enjoyed a lot of the initial chapters in this story, but it lost me after one too many plot twists and alternate dimensions. Although part of me is a bit curious as to what happens and I have grown to care about the main character, I currently can’t find enough motivation to follow this complex universe.
There are ratings, and then there are ratings. I give Shimmer 3.5 stars for the comic genre, 2.5 stars on the overall literary scale. I like that the main character has a fundamental identity issue to grapple with, and that GG’s youth and limited perspective are factored in.
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