Faith: Taking Flight: Review

Thank you, Netgalley for the chance to review this title ahead of its release date

The cover is what drew me to this book, the very first chapter completely sold me. This was everything I wanted!

FAITH starts out with 17 yo Faith Herbery being recruited into what she thinks is a school for superheroes. But when things go awry, she escapes the facility and attempts to go back to her old life, her two best friends and volunteering at an animal shelter. Although Faith has the special ability to actually FLY, she’s totally down to earth about it. She lives with her grandma and obsesses over a tv drama called THE GROVE. When the show suddenly relocates to her town, she meets its star, Dakota Ashe, and plummets into a life of camera flashes and brings life to her fantasy. But the possible romance with a celebrity almost overshadows the real-world issues that threaten her existence. Can she hide her powers from her friends and save her town?

Never have I ever read a plus-sized queer superhero book. Ever. But this isn’t just a superhero book. This isn’t even about Faith’s body type or her sexual orientation. In fact, I feel like that was all more of a side note to the real-world issues Faith encounters. She has a case of survivors guilt after her parents died in a car crash and she survived. Her grandmother is showing signs of dementia and all that on top of missing classmates and pets.

I could not put this book down. My husband literally had to pry it from my hands the other night. I showed him dominance by baring my fangs, but alas, I had to sleep at some point.

Julie Murphy brings heart into this story by showing us that life goes on, even though we can fly. Preorder now. Don’t sit on this one, folks.