By Kelly Thompson
Please word: this can be a PROSE novel approximately superheroes, no longer a image novel/comic ebook.
studies FOR the woman WHO will be KING:
"[TGWWBK] introduces the simplest superhero/villain pair in ages." - io9
"Lola is, with out hyperbole, the most magnificent antagonists I’ve ever had the excitement to read." - io9 (Rob Bricken)
"A clean, vivid and haunting tale that rivetingly explores of the risk and beauty of (super) energy. In Lola and Bonnie Thompson has created awesome characters - outstanding of their talents, without doubt, but in addition of their richness and complexity. A superhero tale that is epic in scope, but in addition intimate - a good read." - Scott Snyder (critically acclaimed author of Batman, Detective Comics, Superman Unchained, American Vampire, The Wake and more!)
"Refreshingly, TGWWBK isn't really approximately one heroine, torn among suitors - it is approximately younger ladies with super energy, torn among correct and improper. among reliable and evil. future and unfastened will. In a compelling, poppy exploration of Nature vs. Nurture, those ladies do not simply fly - they soar." - Bryan Q. Miller (author of Batgirl Vol. three and author for Smallville)
"This booklet is f***ing striking and that i would not switch a rattling thing." - Erin Jade Lange (author of Butter and useless Ends)
"TGWWBK isn't just one in all my favourite books ever, however it additionally has might be my favourite literary personality: Lola LeFever!" - Ross Campbell (creator of rainy Moon and Shadoweyes, artist for Glory)
a singular approximately teenage ladies with superpowers and significantly assorted agendas, destined for a collision that would rock the realm:
Separated by means of hundreds of thousands of miles, younger women are approximately to gain their amazing powers that allows you to bind their lives jointly in methods they cannot start to comprehend.
keeping others. preserving order. Being sturdy. those are all vital issues for Bonnie Braverman, whether she does not comprehend why. constrained to a bunch domestic considering that she survived the automobile coincidence that killed either her mom and dad, Bonnie has lived her existence earlier in self-imposed isolation and silence; but if a chance provides itself to assist one other woman in want, Bonnie has to come to a decision no matter if to truly use the ability she has lengthy suspected she has. energy that frightens her.
around the nation, Lola LeFever is inheriting her personal strength by means of sending her mom over a cliff...literally. For Lola the one factor that concerns is energy; getting it, taking it, and casting off an individual who may get within the manner of her pursuit of it. together with her mom lifeless and not anything to carry her again from the realm any more, Lola units off to check her personal powers on someone unlucky adequate to go her. And Lola's now not fearful of something.
One woman pushed to rescue, keep, and heal; the opposite pushed to punish, smash, and kill.
And now they are approximately to fulfill.
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