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Nine years ago, Steve Clarke was just a teenage boy in love with the girl of his dreams. Then a freak chemical spill transformed him into Reaver, the man whose super-powerful fists can literally take a year off a bad guy's life. Days ago, he found himself at the mercy of his archnemesis, Octagon, and a whole crew of fiendish super-villains, who gave him two weeks to settle his affairs - and prepare to die. Now, after years of extraordinary adventures and crushing tragedies, the world's greatest hero is returning to where it all began in search of the boy he once was...and the girl he never forgot.
Exciting, scandalous, and ultimately moving, Prepare to Die! is a unique new look at the last days of a legend.
- Sales Rank: #63848 in Audible
- Published on: 2012-12-21
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 771 minutes
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Cool book marred by treatment of female characters
By Zack Davisson
I almost didn't read "Prepare to Die!." To be honest, superheroes have never really clicked for me in novel form. Maybe it is their inherent visual nature, or maybe--like superhero films until recently--writers just hasn't figured out how to make it work yet; but for whatever reason every superhero-themed book I have read has been a disappointment. The only exceptions I can think of are the early Wild Cards books, which were fun to read but owed as much to Sci Fi as to superhero.
But I was lured into this book by Paul Tobin. I haven't read too much of his work, but his adaptations in "The Savage Sword of Robert E. Howard" impressed me enough to give "Prepare to Die!" a shot.
And you know, what? He did it. Tobin pulled off one of the best superhero novels I have ever read--with a massive, massive caveat.
First, the good stuff. Best of all, "Prepare to Die!" is full-on superhero. This isn't some Sci Fi-hybrid, some "well I guess you could say that blah-blah-blah was a superhero novel" mash-up. All the tropes are here; costumes, secret identities, team-ups, evil organizations of super villains. Everything. Tobin took all of the Grand Opera of classic superhero comics and scripted from a humanistic viewpoint that works really well. There are shades of Astro City in the approach, and that clicks for a novel. I didn't miss the visuals at all, because Tobin was drawing pictures right in my head the way a good author should.
And I loved that "Prepare to Die!" showcased the infinite possibilities of the superhero genre. I am always shocked at how writers can come up with new powers, new names, in a pool that should have been drained dry long ago. His superheroes are original and innovative: Reaper, the protagonist, whose punch literally drains a year from your life. Kid Crater, who can fly up and descend like a meteor strike. Paladin, the holy hero who takes on the pain of the world. Laser Beast. Octagon. Siren. Macabre. All of Tobin's heroes and villains are fantastic. I would love to see more of them.
All of which is good. But "Prepare to Die!" has a fatal flaw that is almost impossible to overlook.
"Prepare to Die!" is "superhero as male power fantasy" at its most pandering. While the male characters are fully realized and creative, the women are just one-sheet fantasy girls straight out of "Letters to Penthouse." I don't mind some sex with my superheroes, and when Tobin introduced the character Siren as a sex-crazed super-being I thought it fit with her powers. But when every new woman that appeared on the page was just gagging for it, the book got harder and harder to read. I love James Bond, and I am far from a prude, but this book just got too ridiculous for me to take.
The most egregious is Adele, the Reaper's perfect little girlfriend from his childhood before the accident transformed him into a superhero. Things are all quite innocent between them, until the Reaper flies off onto the world stage to become an international man of mystery, sleeping his way through thousands of the world's most beautiful women. But it is all empty, so his path eventually leads him back to his childhood love. He finds her patiently waiting for him these long ten years, his little virginal prize waiting like a trophy for him after sowing his wild oats.
Really? I mean really? Are people still doing this? What year is this again?
It's really too bad, because aside from the blatant sexism and male fantasy, "Prepare to Die!" is a good book. I would love to edit this, to cut out every paragraph that has a woman acting like a fantasy doll. (Even the stuff with Adele wouldn't be too bad if Reaper hadn't spent most of the rest of the book bragging about what a stud he is, and how women through themselves at him.) But as it is, unless you in the market for a pure male fantasy novel and don't mind women as decoration, you should probably stay away from this book.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Very fun and engaging
By willwheels
The story of Steve Clark (aka Reaver), a superhero who is strong, fast, can heal, and has a bit of a temper when he fights; told against the backdrop of visiting his first love, and hometown, after he is defeated by his archenemies.
Very much a modern superhero story but still told in an unexpected way and the flashbacks (to Reaver's origin, beginnings, and growth as a superhero) establish a sense of tension throughout the book.
I hope Paul continues to write novels.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A mostly dark superhero saga
By William Henley
There is a small but growing genre of superhero stories told in prose rather than comics form, and featuring original superheroes created by the author (though often reflecting "archetypal" heroes such as Superman and Batman). PREPARE TO DIE! is one of these. I picked this up to read mainly due to the back-cover recommendation by Kurt Busiek, one of my all-time favorite comics writers. The book's not bad-- it grabbed and held my interest until I finished reading-- but I didn't like it quite as much as Kurt B. did. Your mileage may vary. The story takes place in what seems to me like a rather grim superhero "universe," in which the superheroes are outnumbered by the supervillains, and the heroes are rather imperfectly heroic while the villains are very villainous, using their superpowers for acts of sadism and mass murder. The protagonist, who tells the story in first person, is a hero named Reaver. This sounds more like a villain's name than a hero's, and Reaver does have a creepy aspect to him; in addition to standard powers of strength, speed, and near-invulnerability, he has the "power" that when he punches someone, they lose a year off their natural lifespan. If he punches someone a lot of times (and sometimes he does), the person dies. As a result Reaver is viewed by the public with a mixture of hero-worship, morbid fascination and outright fear. He himself isn't sure he's all that heroic; he blames himself for sometimes losing his temper and letting his potentially lethal power get out of control, and for failing to prevent the death of some of his fellow heroes.
As the novel opens, Reaver is nearly the last of the superheroes, the others having died tragically, gone mad or disappeared. And Reaver appears to be next; he is trapped and overpowered by several of his archfoes working together. When the head arch-villain shouts the villain cliche "Prepare to die!", Reaver cuts a deal taking the phrase literally; the villains will allow him two weeks to wind up his affairs, and then they will kill him. And so we find Reaver taking a trip to the small town where he grew up before gaining his superpowers. The main item on his agenda is reconnecting with the girl he had a teenage crush on but left behind. He also reflects on his life before and after becoming a superhero, and fights a couple of battles with villains unwilling to honor the two-week truce.
I should note that in addition to some extreme violence, this novel contains some fairly explicit sex (some of it between Reaver and female supervillains) and a lot of rough language. If the Comics Code were still around and applied to prose novels, this book would never get past it. This is not a criticism, necessarily, but something potential readers should be aware of.
Without getting into specific spoilers, I'll say that the author tries to make the ending uplifting and optimistic. However, the ending doesn't quite work for me; it doesn't hang together too well and doesn't quite counterbalance all the dark and grim stuff that went before. But again, your mileage may vary.
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