Arsenal

Full Metal Superhero Series, Book 1

De: Jeffery H. Haskell

Narrado por: Emily Beresford

Amelia Lockheart can't walk, but she can fly. As the armored superhero - Arsenal, she has the power of a small army at her disposal. Fourteen years ago her parents disappeared after a horrific wreck which left her wheelchair bound. With thieves salivating to steal her armor, and supervillains trying to kill her, Amelia must learn to trust her new team if she wants to survive long enough to learn the truth.

©2017 Jeffery H. Haskell (P)2017 Tantor

This is a good superhero story.

I’m not a fan of Iron Man but this is different. I liked this.
Haskell sets up his universe well and it is consistent.
I’ve started the Wraith series and came back to this for background. I’m impressed. This was a good, short book about superheroes. It’s worth the read.
I listened while reading and the narrator suits the character.
I recommend this to fans of superhero books. It’s clean enough for kids but gritty enough to keep a 50yr old comic fan interested.
Great book!

Great book!

Very interesting superhero story with a "Bad Big Brother" vibe, great character, awesome tech, good battles.

Good story, but naive writing

3.5 stars

Straight-up superhero fiction. As with most superhero fiction, it's best not to look too critically at the world, but it mostly makes sense within its own constraints. The greatest strain to my ability to suspend disbelief was way the protagonist made extremely rapid upgrades to her gear, but this is something of a standard trope for comic book gadgeteers, so I was willing to overlook it.

The protagonist is a super-scientist who lost her parents in the accident that left her a paraplegic at age 6. She is written as being an extreme autodidact with crippling shyness/social anxiety. At least at the beginning of the story, she isn't really interested in being a super. She is instead consumed by her need to find the parents who disappeared in her accident.

The writing is quite uneven. In particular, the dialogue is unconvincing and the internal monologue (this is written almost entirely in tight first person) is often deeply cringey, and not in a way that feels organic to the character as described. (This improves as the book progresses.)

The narrator is mostly good, but occasionally her voices become grating enough to pull me out of the story. And there are choices that an experienced narrator should not make (Mk. 1 is read as "'M' 'K' 'One'", for instance). On the other hand, some of the writing here would be difficult for anyone to present convincingly.

The book is short and reads very quickly. The story was compelling enough to keep my attention throughout. Even with its flaws, I enjoyed this enough to continue with the series.

Great for only 5 hours

An amazing book! It’s a LOT overpriced for being only 5-something hours but pretty worth the entertainment value. The characters are well-rounded and realistic, and the plot is VERY smart and well thought out — which is not something I was expecting since it was classified in the Children’s Books section of audible. They need to combine some of the books in the series for better value.

Super heroic fun!!

Well thought out characters surrounded by a solid plot line and some nice mystery. Looking forward to book two.

Cool listen

Never gotten into supers books, but this was fun. I like the plots and the characters.

Classy Entertaining Techno Fun

Would not mind listening to it again. Top notch tech-fiction. Realy liked the hero to.

to short but great fun

even with being to short story really moved at good speed. narration was perfect for the book.

Great read.

A great read for all needs that aspire to be heroes. For all geeks who want to use their mental powers for good. For good people that want to do what is right.

Amazing experience

Surprisingly funny and performed with such amazing skill. I can't wait to listen to the second one.