Masks: Evolution by Hayden Thorne

[reviews_and_ramblings]

The second book in the Masks series starts with Eric and Peter in an almost teen comedy relationship. They are young, they are in love, they haven't any problem in their life... well, this is not exactly true. Peter is still learning to mastering his powers and sometime he feels the weight of a responsibility that maybe is too much for a teen. But instead of talking with Eric, he hides behind a cool exterior, making Eric doubts of his love. On the other hand Eric is having financial problem at home, and he would like to help, but he doesn't know how. He would need more than before the comfort that only Peter can give him, but from that side there is no help.

The feeling of the book, as the previous one, is more of a young adult novel than a superhero novel. Maybe since all the superheroes are more like kid with a new toy than real man with a mission. The problem both Peter than Eric face are those of teenagers in love, in a moment in their life when they realize that there is something more than school and their own desires; plus they start to feel something that can really explain, a desire to be with the one you love (even if, in this novel, Peter and Eric spend more time arguing than loving...).

Since neither of those superheroes is adult enough to understand that something is strange, Eric finds himself to face a difficult situation, with his body and his mind that are changing, and he doesn't know if it's the puberty which is hitting or if it's real something abnormal. I feel for Eric, since he has no one to support him: truth be told, I think that Peter is a snob, with a big problem in the communication field, and most of what happened is his fault, to not trying to put aside his own problem and open to Eric; he wants for Eric to be his boyfriend, but then he does nothing for him, not like a superhero but neither like a normal boyfriend. If there is something he can make bad, you are sure that he will do that, like when he takes another girl to dinner at home with his parents, when it's weeks that Eric asks him to do that.

As I said I don't find Peter to be a nice character: he is always in a bad mood with Eric, and I didn't find that Eric deserves to be treated like that; all right Peter could have his own problems, but this is not a reason to be cold with Eric. I hope he will change in the third volume.

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Amazon: Masks: Evolution

Series: Masks
1) Rise of Heroes: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/430966.html
2) Evolution

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Cover Art by Pluto

Comments

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

> Eric would not only be disappointed; he'd kick his ass.

and now he can ;-) Elisa