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Remaining in the hero life had been a difficult decision for Travis Colfax. He's managed, so far, to juggle the demands of his team with the usual daily stress. His inner demons, however, are becoming more vocal.
Struggling to catch the remaining Morlocks in New Port Arthur is difficult enough, but the ill wind blowing in threatens to grow into a maelstrom of problems.
Travis' brother's return from the West Coast is initially a cause for celebration, though he speaks of corruption within the hero community. Someone is setting off bombs in the city, creating more chaos. And as something dark starts to conduct swift and brutal attacks on the team in the dead of night, the strain on Travis begins to unravel his poise.
Then there is the one last question: what is Firegod?
- Sales Rank: #123177 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-06-12
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 549 minutes
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Sophomore slump?
By Jim Stenberg
I really wanted to like this book - I loved "Shadowboy" - but I came away disappointed. The plot is a mess, relying on implausible coincidences and on information delivered ex machina. Oh, and people acting stupidly. I can't be more specific without spoilers - however most of the other points in this review (about Travis's character, etc.) can be made on the basis of material in the first book. As a character study of Travis Colfax it is still pretty good, and the ethical issues raised are engaging. There is lots of action and the dialogue is good. Still, Shadowboy was way better.
(Spoilers for Shadowboy follow.)
Travis Colfax, the lone unpowered member of a superpowered family, copes with feelings of inadequacy. And he has survivor's guilt from having witnessed the murder of his mother and brother. Add in some horrific experiences from book one, and it's a wonder he is functional. Oh, and he is also exploited - all but enslaved - by the Community Fund system. He works basically for nothing since his mandatory insurance payments are so high. Less than nothing, really, since the Community Fund credits that pay for his insurance are apparently taxable income. And of course you can't pay your taxes with Community Fund credits. It's enough to make someone a morlock!
This is all in the first book, though the same picture is presented in the second. The first book also details the progress Travis makes with keeping up with powered individuals. He gets a glove that makes force bubbles, and a nifty bionic eye, and he loses the ability to sleep. The forced insomnia is awful in some ways (anesthesia doesn't work on him) but at least it lets him study at all hours, and makes him resistant to effects that would make a normal person pass out. Moreover, there is a strong hint in the first book that Travis does in fact have superpowers. (I was guessing Survival, maybe with Bad Luck as a secondary power.)
And how does Shadowdemon advance our understanding of Travis's situation? Well, we finally learn why he has the biological markers for superpowers without manifesting any abilities, but... no I can't talk about it without spoilers. I just found it pretty lame. Psychologically, he is barely functional. He finally recognizes the problem at the end of the book, and there is hope of future healing, but really he hasn't advanced a lot beyond the first book. Nikki Greeler is still hanging around - Travis is being awfully unfair to her, considering everyone else's behavior.
Book two really just makes more explicit what we could have figured out from book one. Travis doesn't really learn anything new. I mean, surely he knows about survivor's guilt, doesn't he? And knows he suffers from it? And did he ever think how it would feel to actually have superpowers? As an unpowered 11-year-old, there was nothing he could have done about the murder of his mother and brother. But if it turned that that he had powers after all, then it would have been his fault that they died. (Well, not really, but that's how he would feel.)
So Travis in a bad place either way: unpowered, he thinks he is holding the team back, but having powers would devastate him. Given that the Community Fund basically devalues him as a person (apparently being a superhero is only worth minimum wage), he has the weight of the world to bear, and it is grinding his self-esteem down to nothing. Naturally he makes some mistakes - who wouldn't, suffering under such an intolerable burden? - and equally naturally he is punished for those mistakes. Even when they are clearly not his fault. I can understand Travis wanting to take the blame, but his team shouldn't be so quick to punish!
Travis has doubts about the way the superhero community functions, but it is based on rather abstract concerns about "civil rights violations". I presume he means the right to privacy, and the right to not be subject to arbitrary search and seizure. Superheroes are, after all, kind of casual about breaking in and spying on people, and taking their stuff. However we never see any sympathetic characters suffer from these civil rights violations. They are either villainous types (like the Greelers) or else the violations take place safely off-screen. But Travis is much quicker to stand up for others than for himself, so maybe this is the only way he can recognize the problem with the Community Fund system.
There are a couple of typos and editorial lapses in the book. For instance, there is a mysterious conversation involving "Drake" that confused me. An episode that was deleted from the final draft, perhaps? And Travis's force bubble is described as being impenetrable to sound and heat when it is the opposite that is meant. Travis is an unreliable narrator: sometimes I couldn't be sure if a character really was being (say) mocking, or if it was just Travis's perception. The way the dialogue is written, I am not always sure what is intended.
Anyway, I'm not sorry I purchased the book, but I really hope this is just a sophomore slump and that book three will return to the standard of excellence set by book one. I'll certainly buy it!
3.5 stars, rounded up to 4.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Not as Focused Or Enjoyable As Book 1
By Art
The first book in this series was a bit of a coming of age story, and included time getting to know multiple young heroes. This provided a solid framework for the story, with the main character's (Travis) struggle to "live the life" of a superhero when he (seemingly) has no powers providing depth.
The second book entirely lacks this framework, and suffers for it. Instead, we get a confusing jumble of missions, connected by a weakly over-arching plot, and part 2 of Travis' struggles with himself. In book 1, the alien surgeon told him he looked like a powered, and Travis basically ignored it. In book 2, when confronted with evidence that he may have died for 90 minutes, Travis realizes that he probably does have powers but "doesn't want to think about it," and instead goes catatonic for 36 hours, leading his father to put him in therapy. Travis then proceeds to largely ignore some rather serious problems that he should know are caused by his possible powers. You don't need to be a psychologist to figure out what is going on with Travis, but I won't spoil it.
The problem here is not the Travis plot's believability -- its actually quite logical given Travis' history. Rather, the problem is that its so slow to develop, and not all that much fun to read about. The therapist asks Travis what he wants to be doing instead of therapy -- and Travis has no idea, because he realizes he has zero life, apart from hero work. This doesn't really change in book 2 -- late in book 2 Travis is still muddling around, with no idea what is going on. Or rather, he says that he knows "in the back of his mind" but "doesn't want to deal with it." Worse still, when Travis does realize what is going on, he solves the problem himself, quickly, and way to easily, without fully confronting the issues that led to the problem. So perhaps we will see still more of his inner struggle in book 3, which I find unfortunate.
The rest of the plot (plots actually) are, although chaotic, a bit dull or routine in the final analysis. Although they are a bit of a confusing jumble for most of the book, most of the side plots end up revolving around a pissed off former hero turning rogue (for routine reasons) and wanting to blow up a building (or a bunch) & kill some heroes. To make matters worse, there are a few side plots that are entirely pointless. For example, Travis and his friends get hit by a car. Over the course of a few pages scattered throughout the book, we learn this was a non-powered attempt to murder a love-rival -- i.e. something having nothing to do with them or their role as powered heroes. Travis and his friends don't actually solve this murder -- they get close, but get busy, and the police end up solving it. So its just filler, and its not alone.
Conclusion: Shadowdemon suffers from the lack of a solid framework, pairing Travis' inner struggles with several routine and/or pointless side-plots. As a result, book 2 is simply not as enjoyable as book 1. Nonetheless, Mr. McCarroll can write, and there is certainly hope that he can return to form in book 3. Leaving Travis' inner struggles behind would be a good start.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
The hero we need, the hero we deserve.
By J. Gilmore
Shadowdemon is all that I could have asked for in a sequel. McCarroll's superhero universe is grounded in a world where heroes are as concerned with paying their taxes as they are with fighting crime, yet at the same time is fanciful enough to have shape shifting dragon men, magic wielders, and good old fashioned hero vs. hero throwdowns.
Shadowdemon is a world weary super team leader, he's seen and done it all, and had it all done to him, yet he's still just a teen. This is a great continuation of the story of a non powered hero trying to fit into a world where people can throw tanks and run at the speed of sound. Travis the Shadowdemon is neurotic full of doubt and slightly self destructive, but he's the most engaging hero I've read this side of Spiderman.
This is what comics should be like, funny, introspective, creative and as exciting as heck. He's not a sidekick, Shadowdemon is the real deal.
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