Reseña: Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain (Please Don't Tell My Parents #1)

 +Reto Popsugar #37. Un libro acerca de alguien con superpoderes+

Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain (Please Don't Tell My Parents #1)

by  

Richard Roberts

 

 376 pages

Published February 15th 2014 by Curiosity Quills Press 

ISBN: 162007463X (ISBN13: 9781620074633)

Edition Language: English 

BLURB: Penelope Akk wants to be a superhero. She's got superhero parents. She's got the ultimate mad science power, filling her life with crazy gadgets even she doesn't understand. She has two super powered best friends. In middle school, the line between good and evil looks clear.
In real life, nothing is that clear. All it takes is one hero's sidekick picking a fight, and Penny and her friends are labeled supervillains. In the process, Penny learns a hard lesson about villainy: She's good at it. Criminal masterminds, heroes in power armor, bottles of dragon blood, alien war drones, shape shifters and ghosts, no matter what the super powered world throws at her, Penny and her friends come out on top. They have to. If she can keep winning, maybe she can clear her name before her mom and dad find out.

My rating: 3.7 mad-scientist stars

En esta versión alternativa de Los Angeles, muy al estilo del universo Avengers y Los Increibles, hay superheroes y villanos, y acaban de pasar por una guerra con los aliens. Penelope Akk es una chica normal de 13 años, un poco nerd ,  cuyos padres son dos superheroes en retiro. Papá es Cerebro Akk y mamá es Auditor. Con esos padres, ella espera tener una habilidad científica-matemática como ellos, pero con lo que no contaba es que ella en realidad es una ..¡científica loca! Porque todos saben que los cientificos locos son todos villanos, ¿verdad? errr.

Sus dos mejores amigos son Claire (hija de una supervillana 'redimida')  y Ray (cuya familia es un misterio, aunque después apunta a que no es muy buena). Cuando los poderes de Penny se manifiestan es en forma de ciencia intuitiva, creando en estado de trance, sin saber bien como hace lo que hace aunque produce cosas asombrosas. La mejor es The Machine, que consume y recicla todo.  

Pronto se meten en lios y son tildados de villanos, y toda la novela Penny se la trata tratando de sacarse ese mote de encima y otros ratos renunciando y dejandose llevar porque se divierten de lo lindo causando problemas y midiendose a veces peligrosamente con supervillanos adultos.

Lo bueno es tener una protagonista cientifica. Ella es fabulosa.

Lo peor es Ray, que pasa de ser un chico nerd a un adolescente pasado pa' la punta, lleno de insinuaciones sexuales, y creyendose el cuento de que por contar con fuerza fisica y tener el fisico puede conseguir lo que quiera, aunque a ratos se ve que tiene miedo de algo en casa.

Despues Claire ...bueno eso es parte de la trama. Pero es una de esas cosas de que se quejan los padres de malas juntas, bueno a veces es verdad. Desconfio ademas de su madre.

Los padres de Penny, por otra parte, son de esos padres que no se enteran de lo pasa en sus narices, muy en onda caricaturesca-

Con todo entretiene mucho y me quede con las ganas de leer el segundo, porque no he conseguido pillarlo... ug.

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Mi reseña original en inglés:

Superheroes, supervillains, aliens and fallen angels oh my

Penelope Akk has 13 y.o. , she is the daughter of 2 retired superheroes: Brian "Brainy" and Beatrice "The Audit" Akk; they are mathematical type of heroes, and everybody knows them. Los Angeles is like a sunny version of Gotham, you lift a rock and find a superheroe or a supervillain. Her best friends are Claire and Ray, kind of the geeky kids of their middle grade school.

It’s pretty safe around the school, which helps. The poor heroes all live south of here, and do a lot of patrolling in South Central, and the rich heroes live just north. Me and Claire were the only kids of openly admitted superheroes in school, but muggers and drug dealers and what all knew this was the most dangerous neighborhood in the city for them. Here, and Chinatown. I couldn’t tell you why Chinatown, I’d just heard my folks say it. Superhero gossip.

Penny anxiously awaits the moment when her powers manifest ... but there is a small problem when she realizes that she is actually a ... mad scientist.

Of course there is a kind of misunderstanding and hides it from his parents, thinking that at any time he can change sides and play everything as a joke. Because really ... being a supervillain is a lot of fun.

These guys are very adventurous and want to just have a good time without actually measuring consequences (with a few strokes a little more realistic like Ray's problems at home, or the loneliness of a villain father) with a bit of irony to the movies of superheroes, and the whole book is in a style more similar to "The Incredibles" and "Teen Titans"(animated series) than anything else. Nevermind Penny's incomprehensibly clueless parents , and those terrible bad advisers as best friends leading her astray. You know about good intentions, no?

The Good:

A scientist tech girl! She rocks. Penny is pretty naive , I think overprotected by her parents. She easily follow the plans of the others, however she is the 'brain' in the operations.

Whatever happened, I needed to stay in charge of The Inscrutable Machine. I hated to think what Claire and Ray could and would get away with if I didn’t hold them back.

The not-so-good:

Ray is a litle s*, he is good at science but became with the power this superteen all brash and innuendo . Her relashionship with Claire and the Voice power reminds me of junior version of Joker (or the Penguin) and Harley.

In another hand, Claire /SPOILER--->made me suspicious since then start, sorry not sorry, but her power is persuasion, she can obnubilate minds - Penny is captive often during their adventures, I think she and her mother has other plans... maybe<----SPOILER/[made me suspicious since then start, sorry not sorry, but her power is persuasion, she can obnubilate minds - Penny is captive often during their adventures, I think she and her mother has other plans... maybe (hide spoiler)]

(About Claire)

She has those looks, and she’s generous and kind. Is it any wonder her Mom got a full pardon when she retired? Of course, she’d saved the world a couple of times. What kind of crazy supervillain tries to destroy the world?
Half of them.

There are another 4 books , I'd like to try another one.

I had to be honest with myself. The whole thing was fun. Other than not having a choice, I had a natural talent for being a supervillain and I got a big kick out of it. Who’d have thought? I had to hope I’d find heroism just as natural!

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