Title: Velveteen vs. The Multiverse
Series: Velveteen vs. book 2
Author: Seanan McGuire
Genre: Superhero fiction, humor
I reviewed book 1, Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots, last year and you can read my review here.
Opening sentence:
It was a beautiful September afternoon in the sleepy little town Isley, California (population 840, on a good day when no one had decided to drive up to Sacramento for some big city thrills).
Like with the first book and Cookie Cutter Superhero by Tansy Rayner Roberts this book is very much metafictional and it has so much love for the superhero genre. Both Roberts and McGuire understand that loving something allows you to look at something critical without that diminishing your love for it. The best satire always comes from a place of passion – because it requires a great amount of passion to acquire the level of knowledge it requires to really highlight the most funny and problematic areas of what you love. The Velveteen stories does just that.
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