It was a DNF for me.

Sorry for the delayed review. I have been working this year to catch up on my netgalley backlog. I appreciate the opportunity to read this story.

Thank you for the opportunities to read this book. I have attempted it on a number of occasions but unfortunately I haven’t been able to get into it.

Who does not love a superhero??? This book is so much fun to read. It is a very fluent story and I finished it in one day. I could not put it away.
In the beginning I did nor see where it was going but it soon became clear that is was going in the perfect direction. It was like a comic book translated in to a novel but with a lot more depth. I just loved it and I hope we won't have to wait too long before we can start with part 2. I am really looking forward to it. The 5 stars are well deserved.

This is a really good superhero story which you just will not want to put down.

This was not for me. I didn't enjoy the chatacters or the story and found the book hard to follow.

Superheroes are an immediate YES! to me when it comes to books. No matter what it is like, I'll try it out. And this was a great superhero story.

It's like the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. There is no cure for the Solstice Syndrome and just when Tess gave up and she knew death was just days away, all of a sudden her symptoms mysteriously disappear.
Then she notices something is wrong with her hands.No matter what she touches her hand turns into that object. Wood, steel, and concrete. Tess is 21 years old and loves comic books and has realized she now has superpowers. All of a sudden people across the country have gifts too. In the city she lives the police are having trouble with human trafficking and a vigilante named The Fox is saving lives and stopping criminals.
I liked getting to know Tess and her strength and The Fox and her working together was amazing chemistry.

This is a great book with a wonderful story and well developed characters. The story flowed very well and was very enjoyable. This book will keep you reading long into the night and you will not want to put this book down until you finish. This was such a great read and full of surprises. I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader’s copy of this book. The free book held no determination on my personal review.

Superhero Syndrome is the first installment in the Solstice Survivor series. It’s a promising start to this new series. I love this fresh take on superheroes. I’m looking forward to more adventures with Tess & Reed. And meeting more superheroes with different powers!

*ARC provided by NetGalley for an honest review.

I've complained in the past about superhero novels often being poorly done. This is a welcome exception. It's remarkably non-tropey, especially the characters, who are at the same time familiar and fresh, with some depth to them. Tess, the main character and narrator, is particularly fun; she could easily have been a whiny loser, or a fake "strong woman" who constantly has to be rescued from her bad decisions, but she's neither. She fights her own way out of trouble that her inexperience, or the machinations of the villains, gets her into, and does so with creativity and verve.

In the pre-release version I got from Netgalley, there are a few minor typos and a couple of clumsy phrasings, but overall it's smooth and competent.

All of the chapter headings are in the form "Tess vs...", something that Seanan McGuire also does in her Velveteen novels, and I wondered if those had been an influence. I enjoy Velveteen, and this book has other similarities: a young woman dealing, sometimes wearily, but perseveringly, with a realistic world in which good jobs and good men are both hard to find; where evil resides less in stereotypical supervillains than in manipulative corporations and corrupt civil servants; and where, despite all that, one determined person can make a difference.

The source of superpowers is, in this first book, mysterious, an illness ("Solstice Syndrome") which multiple people develop just before Christmas and then recover from after an unusual meteor shower. Tess is one, and her near-death experience refocuses her on what's important to her.

I very much look forward to seeing where this series goes, and recommend it to anyone who enjoys superhero fiction, or for that matter urban fantasy.

This started off a bit slow for me but it built into a dynamic and fun story. Really enjoyable!