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Godzilla Thresholds Galore, and Too Little Satisfaction

What happens when a group of Villains trying to make a living meets someone who has morally questionable values, a superpower that doesn't look like it can do much, and is the victim of a friend-turned-bully? You get something like Worm. It draws you into the story and doesn't let go until you've made it... half-way through. And that's the issue I have with it.

Okay, this story has such an amazing build up that I can't help but be jealous of just how well its done. The author is very good at doing build up... not so much resolving said build up. It's all the story seems to be. It's too long; The payoffs, whether small or large, weren't happening often enough for me to not feel exhausted and fatigued from reading it.

There was very little satisfaction and too many unresolved plot lines (and too many characters) that I couldn't keep my focus on it. When there seems to be a resolution to some problem or another, it gets shoved aside with the increasingly spontaneous and growing Godzilla Thresholds. I can't even see the hints dropped for the resolution because there is just too much going on, too many unnecessary information. It's so exhausting that I can't even bring myself to come back to the point where I left off in the story, or even re-read it. What's the point when I feel like it'll just go on and on forever and ever? (At least the Neverending Story had an ending!)

Too me, it was just trying way to hard to subvert tropes involving superheroes and trying too hard to avoid the political and moral issues within the story just to keep it's characters going down the road she wanted it to go. It started getting repetitive. So, sadly, I lost interest in this and couldn't bring myself to pick it up again because I didn't want to feel exhausted from reading it. It's a shame because she is so good a building up to a future payoff, she just isn't very good at writing a good satisfying payoff.

If you have a better attention span than me, then I'd suggest this story to you. For those of you wondering how good my patience is, well, it would take about three days of solid reading just to get to where I dropped off. If you can, spread this story out over a month or so, instead of binge reading like I did. It might make it more enjoyable for you.

Otherwise, I'd give it a miss.