Aury Wallington

This was a cute story of a young girls quest to "become a woman". It was well written and very entertaining.

I think I waited too long to read this book, as the Heroes new episodes travelled back to Midland and worked to "Fix" Hiro's past. I won't elaborate more to save this from spoiling things.

This book touches a lot of information within Hiro, fills in gaps in the character that might not be obvious in the show. Books of this nature always are welcome in my shelves as I like to get to know characters well. From the general reading standpoint, this book was a fun romp thorugh the missing time of show more Hiro's journey to save the cheerleader. I think my biggest gripe was how they tried to work scenes from the show into the book to ground it properly into the show. They didn't feel like they flowed smoothly with the rest of the writing.

From a writer's standpoint, the book maintained a steady plot throughout, its subplots closely tied to the plot. It stuck closely with the one point of view, though drifted as most writers do when a character views another's actions. As I read, I remembered a professor of English Literature telling my class that a repeated phrase always frames important information within the book, and this book seemed to show a falacy within that concept, though I might be wrong.

Enjoyed the book, would only recommend it to Die Hard Heroes/Hiro Nakamura fans. show less

Having become recently obsessed with the Heroes universe, I had to give this book a shot. It was a quick read, and dealt more with the emotional interaction between Hiro and Charlie than it did with the meat of the Heroes storyline.

Hiro's nerdery helped me to relate to him, as well as his fumblings with the fairer sex and his thoughts about creating multiple timelines with his power. Any misgivings that I had had with the story were gone by its midpoint.

At least this as an interesting approach to a TV tie-in novel; instead of more exciting adventures with the characters from the series it’s a character piece based on it, a romance with superpowers. That choice is the best thing about the book though. What this story could have been is a tragic, doomed romance which, knowing the ending, breaks your heart. What it ends up being is a quick shallow sprint through what should have been a tender relationship. Hiro’s reduced from the lovable show more onscreen geek to a sketch of a geek, a pop culture obsessed virgin who can’t talk to a girl. And Charlie is a caricature of a smalltown girl. There’s no depth or impact to the tragedies of her life, they’re just things that have happened to her, from the death of her parents to her own death. The moments that should have sung, moments like Hiro using his powers for romantic purposes and a late reciprocation by her just occur with no visible impact. There’s no attempt to play up the culture clash between Texas and Tokyo never a moment where you can marvel at how strange it really is. And this is all wrapped in perfunctory prose which often seems to struggling to his a page count. Perhaps if this had been an episode the actors could have lifted it – the material’s certainly there for them to play the audience’s heartstrings like a violin – but what’s here feels better material for the screen than the page. show less