Name: Faith
ISBN: 9781432888978

Julie Murphy

"Thorndike Press Striving Reader Collection."

Taking Flight

Faith

From Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin', comes the first in a two-book origin story of Faith, a groundbreaking, plus-sized superhero from the Valiant Entertainment comics. Faith Herbert is a pretty regular teen. When she's not hanging out with her two best friends, Matt and Ches, she's volunteering at the local animal shelter or obsessing over the long-running teen drama The Grove. So far, her senior year has been spent trying to sort out her feelings for her maybe-crush Johnny and making plans to stay close to Grandma Lou after graduation. Of course, there's also that small matter of recently discovering she can fly.... When the fictional world of The Grove crashes into Faith's reality as the show relocates to her town, she can't believe it when TV heroine Dakota Ash takes a romantic interest in her. But her fandom-fueled daydreams aren't enough to distract Faith from the fact that first animals, then people, have begun to vanish from the town. Only Faith seems able to connect the dots to a new designer drug infiltrating her high school. But when her investigation puts the people she loves in danger, she will have to confront her hidden past and use her newfound gifts--risking everything to save her friends and beloved town.

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Megan Lapides

What I liked: the characters, the writing, and the plot (for the most part).
What I wanted more of: how Faith discovered her powers. There were flashbacks to this, but there was still a lot of information missing to piece everything together. And more of Faith actually using er super power. Most of the book was pretty normal high school/teen stuff, which I wasn't super interested in. I though Faith was an interesting person, besides her powers even, and that made me like the book more. But I would've loved more super0hero stuff.

Juliana Callahan

While I did really like this book, I noticed a lot of the flaws that other readers mentioned. It is a very surface level book and despite the sci-fi/superhero themes, a majority of the book read like a rom com. Arguably, I found the romance aspect one of the better parts of the book as that was one of the few parts that actually felt fleshed out, however there were other parts that just dropped off after being mentioned. I'm looking forward to reading the sequel once it comes out, mostly to find out how this all ends.

Faith Taking Flight

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