Faith: Taking Flight
Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I was excited for this one Faith, overweight fangirl who in many ways reminds me of so many I know (being of this ilk myself) but what started strong sort of got soft in the middle, no pun intended. Faith is literally kidnapped one summer (her friends think she was at journalism camp, exactly where her grandmother who she lives with thought she was is anyone's guess) and she's tortured into activating her psiont powers ala Deadpool style (and I'd rather her flying ability have been something other than psychic ability trumps gravity).
But it's like it never happened. Faith has zero PTSD or anything from such a harrowing experience which I found unbelievable. Also I did side eye this a bit reading the author's note talking about the body positive groups she talked to because the reality of this is, it's not that body positive. Sorry but it isn't, Faith isn't mocked for being fat but she is self deprecating.
Anyhow Faith is an uber fan of The Grove some show we never do learn that much about which has suddenly started shooting in Minnesota after all these years on TV and she meets Dakota Ash who she is a huge fan of and Dakota is one of the lead actresses who takes an immediate liking to Faith. For some reason this is never questions not even by Faith's two BFFs, Ches and Matt (fyi also every character in this is LGBT so there's that. Faith is pan). It's like come on, no one even wonders? This is pure fan girl wish fulfillment right here. Who hasn't daydreamed their favorite star meets them and wants to befriend them (let alone date them)? yet no one questions this really.
In the meantime dogs and then people have started to go missing but by the time we get to this we're halfway in so the story feels very unbalanced. It's very easy to figure out who the villains were. Ches's story line was less predictable at least what little there was of it. Ches and Matt getting catty half way through didn't help either. And Faith calling the one person who got her into this mess in the first place really REALLY needed more info as to why she would ever do that.
Was I disappointed? A little yes. Would I read another? If it was at the library and I didn't have to pay money, yeah.
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