SuperHeroBooks - Wolverine: Election Day (Wolverine)
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Manufacturer: Pocket Star
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781416510765
ISBN: 1416510761
Label: Pocket Star
Manufacturer: Pocket Star
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2008-08-26
Publisher: Pocket Star
Studio: Pocket Star
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Summary: SNIKT! You Had Better Enjoy This Book As Much As I Did, BUB!
Comment: I just finished reading this book about 15 minutes ago and I have no qualms about telling you that I thoroughly enjoyed reading every page. The story was very well done and it kept my interest pretty much during the entire story, although there were a couple of small parts that did seem to drag a bit.
The basic plot of the story is that terrorists have kidnapped a random child from an American home and have threatened to kill him if the American public doesn't vote for a senator running for the office of President of the United States, and against the current President in the upcoming presidential election.
Through an unrelated set of circumstances, Logan gets involved in trying to find the kidnapped child along with a U.S. Army corporal who just so happens to be a mutant with a unique ability for knowing when a person is lying.
Add into the mix a television bounty hunter (read Dog The Bounty Hunter) and a Federal Agent named Craig and you have all the ingredients for a series of various "p*ssing contests" throughout the story. Oh, I almost forgot, you also need to throw in a few mutant bad guys with some interesting abilities to give the story more exciting battle scenes, and they are.
There are a couple of neat little "plot twists" in the story that I am not going to give away and a very intriguing villain whom I am still curious about and can't wait to find out more about him. OOOPS! Gave that one away, the main villain is male. Sorry ladies!
I would also recommend reading the other Wolverine novels that are currently available.
Wolverine: Lifeblood (Wolverine)
Wolverine: Violent Tendencies (Wolverine (Mass))
Wolverine: The Nature of the Beast (Wolverine (Mass))
Wolverine: Road of Bones (Wolverine)
Wolverine: Weapon X (Wolverine (Mass))
Shawn Kovacich
Author of the Achieving Kicking Excellence series.
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Summary: Re: Quick, great read
Comment: Per usual, Peter David meets all expectations with his stories. For anyone intereseted in a solid, quick read that's true to the central character of Wolverine, unlike many interpretations, this is a fine choice for your bookshelves.
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Summary: Wolverine needs an upate
Comment: Wolverine is becoming a really boring character. Does he every have a situation where he is really threatened? Is he ever in any real danger? Also, his attitude is like an overgrown teenager. He complains that humans have no respect or liking for mutants and constanly violate their rights ad then spends the rest of the story violating everyone elses rights. He feels as if he can do as he pleases and should always get away with it even if it involves things like torture or murder. I would really like to see a story where he gets his butt kicked. This is one othe reasons why the Marvel superhes are no longer as interesting the DC superheroes. Thare just too predictable and one dimensional.
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Summary: The Best at what he does
Comment: Wolverine is the best at what he does. With an Adamantium laced skeleton, and a healing factor that makes him almost impossible to kill, and to top that all off razor sharp claws, he is a one man army.
This book is a quick read. The character development in Wolverine is sufficient, as well as the description of the characteristics that make Wolverine the character that he is today. This book doesn't necessarily follow any of the other Wolverine novels. Wolverine prefers to work alone, or I should say outside of the X-Men, at least in these novels.
Like most books Wolverine is paired with a partner, sometimes not by choice. In this book Wolverine seems to want his partner around. Wolverine is paired with a mutant who is a low level psychic. This psychic's ability causes him to be a human lie detector. The psychic's ability causes his skin to turn red when ever he is around someone telling a lie.
Because Wolverine is paired with a human lie detector,this often involves comical situations much to the annoyance of Wolverine.
This particular novel takes place around a presidential election, and while I do not want to spoil anything. Terrorists kidnap what seems to be a random child and trying to persuade the outcome of the nest U.S.A. presidential election. Wolverine and his partner are assigned to go and rescue the boy before the election day, in the event that the American people are not persuaded to vote a certain way depending on the boy's capture.
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There's less than one week to go in the run-up to the nation's next general presidential election -- a heated political contest pitting the incumbent president against a popular challenger. But all bets are off when a heinous act of domestic terrorism results in a young boy being held hostage before the eyes of America...with the ultimate demands to result in nothing short of changing the face of history. As a nationwide investigation into the boy's possible whereabouts is quickly mobilized, military brass requests that the mutant Wolverine become involved as well -- there's simply no one more qualified with the tracking skills and vicious talent necessary to uncover the truth, even as the country threatens to descend into chaos....
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