High school is miserable for Taylor. Despite the fact that her superpower is a little less conventional than super strength or shooting laser beams from her hands, she’s been holding on to a dream of becoming a superhero.
As she takes the plunge, however, things don’t go as planned. Taylor finds herself immersed in a world of black and gray morality, violence, rival factions and hard decisions.
Note: Worm contains some graphic violence and harsh language.
Tags: action · adventure · crime · high school · modern supernatural · online novels · superhero · teenagers
Listed: Jul 1, 2011
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Sep 28, 2011: An intriguing, ambiguous situation has been set up here: a bullied, miserable incognito superpowered teen finding the friends she never had among the minor supervillain gang she plans to infiltrate and betray.
The matter of fact way she deals with her unhappy life comes through poignantly (there is a sense of emotions being muffled and deeply suppressed to the extent that it affects her judgement about other things), action scenes have vivid, solid detail, and cityscapes establish atmosphere. Technically, the site is very basic with white on black text, which is not the most comfortable reading experience for me, but it is used commonly enough that some people must like it. The writing is sound, flows well, and tends to be error-free. So far: compelling – I hope Worm continues to live up to its promise!
Ed Note (Nov 5 2011): It is . . . It just gets more and more interesting! Wildbow is an excellent writer. Recommended.
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Mar 10, 2012: I very rarely review "popular" stories lately—I tend to try to write a review for authors who haven’t received one lately in order to balance things out a bit. Every story deserves a look. "Worm" has received a lot of praise, so I’ve actually been avoiding reading it.
Well, this March I’ve spent a lot of time in the hospital as my wife gave birth to twins, and I needed a distraction whenever there was a quiet moment. I checked out [more . . .]
Sep 19, 2012: Short Version: Recommended for all Superhero fiction fans. When I started reading it a couple of weeks ago I burned through the archive in one day.
Setup: Taylor is a teenage girl with an unusual superpower – she controls insects and arachnids. She dreams of becoming a superhero and when a group of teenage supervillains mistake her for a villain and invite her to join them she agrees in order to spy on and eventually betray them. But as she gets [more . . .]
Apr 3, 2013: Worm is one of those rare stories where even a million words isn’t enough to fill my appetite for more.
The credit for that starts with the setting and characters. One of the lures of most superhero stories is that the world they live in is ours. Slightly different perhaps with a "Gotham" that’s not on our maps or "mutants among us", but still a world filled with things that we recognize from personal experience. Where Worm shines from the first [more . . .]
