Manuel Arbanassi's Reviews > Max

This has been my entry point into the series, and honestly, my exit point as well. I was...appalled…to be perfectly honest. This book basically touched all the bad tropes that I've seen around. Mind you, I read this in Italian, so there might have been something lost in translation, and this is my personal opinion. Feel free to disagree with it.
The characters are...sorta annoying. They won't shut up about having wings. Not ever. The powers are thrown in like hot candy, oh, sure, now two of them can speak with fish and survive freezing cold and crushing pressure…because…reasons? It doesn't even make a lick of sense with how their powers are explained in this chapter. Ok. They got spliced with avian DNA. Fine. Then where do the weird water-breathing, aquatic abilities come from? The talking winged dog and the SIX year old that beats a MARINE in hand to hand combat. The villain is just as ridiculous, making absolutely idiotic moves. "Oh, I need to stop the MC’s mother, so I'm gonna kidnap her daughter, wound her, but then let her go because...Wait, why am I letting her go again instead of just keeping her and using her as leverage?" And this is just a sample of all the things that annoyed me. Just...just no.