Young Sentinels

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Marion G. Harmon: Young Sentinels (2013, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)

Published Aug. 25, 2013 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

ISBN:
978-1-4922-8078-1
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4 stars (1 review)

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Great new characters, escalating power levels & fights

4 stars

This is the third book in the Wearing the Cape series, and I quite enjoyed it.

Unlike the first two books, this one have multiple narrators, changing each chapter. It does say in the header of the chapter who's narrating, but it took me a long, somewhat confusing time to notice that.

Each of the three narrators does have a fairly distinct voice, which I appreciated once I knew them well enough to recognize them. By the end of the book I honestly liked Grendel a lot better than Hope/Astra. I think perhaps Megaton was at least partially an attempt to recapture the innocence of the new-to-superpowers-and-super-heroing that Hope had in the first book, but the circumstances were too radically different.

On the surface there are three main plots: 1 - Hope becomes the leader of her own "Young Sentinels" team. According the The Rules, because these kids are all …