{4.5\/5} “She suppressed a vague feeling of abandonment, that she could have died, and now Mentis and her mother were just leaving her alone. But she remembered: the city was more important. And Celia was always saying she could take care of herself, wasn’t she?”<\/p>\n
Celia is the daughter of superheroes, living in Commerce City. Although she tries to lead a normal life, she sometimes gets kidnapped — of course, the Olympiad always comes to her rescue. Celia works as a forensic accountant and her boss has asked her to work on a high profile case — against her parents’ greatest adversary, the Destructor. But unbeknownst to almost everyone Celia had once, as a teenager, become a bad guy and joined the Destructor.<\/p>\n
After the Golden Age<\/strong> by Carrie Vaughn was published in 2011.<\/p>\n There are lots of books about superheroes but I think this is the first one I’ve read about a superhero couple’s offspring. It’s different, with a subtle sense of humour.<\/p>\n Celia is a great point-of-view character, and we occasionally get a flashback to earlier in her life.<\/p>\n If superheroes were real, they might get into trouble with the police from time to time.<\/p>\n This is the first book by Vaughn that I’ve read, and I liked it a lot.<\/p>\n I just discovered that there’s a sequel (that takes place years later) — I will undoubtedly read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {4.5\/5} “She suppressed a vague feeling of abandonment, that she could have died, and now Mentis and her mother were just leaving her alone. But she remembered: the city was more important. And Celia was always saying she could take care of herself, wasn’t she?” Celia is the daughter of superheroes, living in Commerce City. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,9,28,5],"class_list":["post-4859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-fantasy","tag-novels","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4859"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4889,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions\/4889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}