The Regional Office Is Under Attack!

Essentially a teenage superpower action comic without any illustrations. Misogynistic.

Buffy meets Kill Bill in this great, fast-paced story about renegade female assassins taking on their 9-5 working, office drone female assassin counterparts. I didn't love the characterization of the main characters at the beginning of the story - mostly, the teenage main character is borderline offensive to teens - but it gets better. This one is a ton of fun.

It wants desperately to be Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Veronica Mars but Gonzales can’t keep up the witty repartee and pop-culture quotes and thus comes off as cute rather than edgy or smart. Pleasant, but not memorable bit of pop fluff.

I found this book to be pretty disappointing. Good setup and some interesting details, but the author obviously had no idea what to do with them or how to resolve the book.

Think Die Hard with female assassins and robots! What's not to love?!

A bit of a parody of the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" tropes found in some paranormal fiction, this book stretches a bit further and adds some interesting characterization to the standard company of characters.

My first thought was that I was not the intended audience of this book. Fights that lasted several chapter and lots of bad language. Explosions and robots and all sorts of weird stuff. It reads like a Joss Whedon TV show. But the writing was wonderful and the characters surprisingly complex and before I knew it I was having too much fun to quit. This book was a delightful summer read, just so fun.

Character voices in this novel are fantastic. Rose: gifted and impatient (which is to say, a teenager) is the leader of an all out attack against the Regional Office; standing in her way is loyal Sarah and her mechanical arm. You'll root for both of these characters before the book's end.