There are a couple of other storylines interspersed with the current one, one fourteen years in the past with Neena as a child and one with her six years in the past investigating her origin. Their mission is to extricate a pair of young people from the clutches of a fanatical (is there any other kind?) cult leader in Chicago, Neena's old stomping ground. This is a pretty good prose novel featuring Neeena Thurman, Domino, and her Hot Shot team created by Gail Simone. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing, publishing, games, and digital media.įor more information visit. Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media for over eighty years. All thoughts are my own and in no way influenced by the aforementioned. Received a review copy from Aconyte and Edelweiss. But the poor storytelling device killed any enthusiasm I had for this book. With each paragraph I grew more frustrated as I had to figure out which timeline this paragraph was for. The end of the book gets very confusing as the stories blend together, switching every few paragraphs with no transition. Just when the main story is gathering momentum, Palmgren undercuts it by switching to one of the other stories. The parallel story lines are where the problems lie. There are also two parallel stories, one of her childhood (which Gail Simone already covered) and the other, six years in Domino's past when she met her mother. They are hired to get a brother and sister out of a cult. Domino has her all female team of mercenaries she works with, The Hotshots. Just when the main story is gathering momentum, Palmgren undercuts it by sw This pulls from the Gail Simone era of Domino from the last couple of years. This pulls from the Gail Simone era of Domino from the last couple of years. With her probability manipulating superpowers she can turn even the worst of situations to her advantage.more It’s a total pain in the ass, but maybe it is time to finally face those demons. If only she’d had someone to help her back then, someone… like her. She still has nightmares about Project Armageddon, the super-soldier program that wrecked her life and destroyed her family. For former X-Force operative Domino, that’s a “hell no”. The job: infiltrate a Chicago conman’s cult to liberate some brainwashed twins. She still has nightmares about Project Armag Sharp-witted, luck-wrangling mercenary Domino takes on both a dangerous cult and her own dark past, in this explosive introduction to the new series of Marvel prose novels Sharp-witted, luck-wrangling mercenary Domino takes on both a dangerous cult and her own dark past, in this explosive introduction to the new series of Marvel prose novels The job: infiltrate a Chicago conman’s cult to liberate some brainwashed twins.
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