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Foster Care! Magic Paint! Superheroes! OH MY!
Format: Kindle
This was a great read. I loved everything about it. The artwork is vivid. The main characterโs personality is spot-on. The humor was great.
Ashley is a girl in a world where she is herself and nobody else. At least, thatโs what she thinks. Really, sheโs a girl stuck in foster care because her dadโs in jail. She has a carefree attitude on the outside, but on the inside sheโs really tender-hearted. Then one day a new family shows up, attempting foster care with Ashley. Sheโs living pretty nicely there and sheโs made a friend named Luke. Then one day her foster mom comes home acting kind of strange. Later, Ashley decides to snoop into whatโs in that mysterious suitcase her foster mom brought in and hid in a closet. She and Luke find paint. Lots of tubes of paint. Ashley puts them on her skin, because she โlikes the texture.โ This is where I think itโs waaaaay too obvious that what sheโs doing has to be specifically made like that for the storyline. Itโs okay though, they do an okay job of hiding it. Anyway. These paints are magic paints that give the person who wears them superpowers! So of course Ashley has to go and use them and be a superhero she calls โPrimerโ. But her foster momโs job wants those paints she brought home back. So they send their roughest, toughest soldier to retrieve them. Ashley, of course, has a fight with her foster mom about it, and Ashley decides to run away, taking the paints with her.
Then obviously the soldier dude shows up, with a bunch of robots. There it just turns into your normal superhero fight scene, but then Ashley loses and the paints are taken except the teleportation one. The soldier, by the way, is named Strack. So then Ashleyโs like, โOh no, Iโll neeever be a heroโ even though obviously she will, this is a superhero story. Suddenly her phone is ringing. Itโs her foster dad and mom. She picks up their video call and itโs STRACK! Heโs adult-napped her foster parents, of course. She debates going to fight Strack, or to just leave it. She goes with leave it until she looks up and sees a painting she made and this suddenly gives her confidence, for reasons unknown.
So then thereโs another big fight scene with Strack, but Ashley is overconfident like she knows she canโt die, itโs a book and that would be devastating for little ones reading it. Anyway, she wins and frees her parents and they all live happily ever after.
So, this story ends in a cliffhanger thatโs not a very good one. Itโs just Ashleyโs REAL dad seeing her on TV from when she went out and was a superhero the first time, and heโs like, โYouโre not Primer, every father knows his daughterโs eyes, ASHLEY. See you soon.โ So if I was hanging from a cliff here, I would be attached to it with a safety cable and I would be laying on the top of the cliff, with only my foot hanging off. Itโs not much of a cliffhanger.
This was a great book about a female superhero. Oh, and another thing I forgot to mention, there is a page you should skip if you are reading to a child under seven. Pageโฆ. Letโs see hereโฆ oh yes. Page seventy-seven. It involves a gun and likely shooting afterwards, but it isnโt shown. I am a very sensitive person, and even I, an almost-teen was kind of rustled by it. Anyways, great story, lovely artwork, good book.
Iโm rounding up from 4.5 stars.
-written by a tween
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Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2022
