So much fun! I genuinely enjoyed the take on the different heroes (and villains) and the fact the book illustrated how each hero operated individuallyisually and as a unit. I'm excited to share this with my niece and to follow as the gals continue on!

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For a long time I've bemoaned the fact that while its cool and all for my niece to be into Batman and Superman, I wish there was something age-appropriate to give her that made the female heroes (and villains) just as much fun. We tore through Tiny Titans and Lil Gotham, but those were still pretty dude-centric. When I heard about this series I was cautiously excited. DC has had some issues in recent years with marketing and understanding what makes their females so great. While this was clearly marketed for a much younger generation, I was worried they would then treat the characters more...kiddish.

As a first volume for the interconnected series of DC Super Hero Girls this was so much fun. The bright colors, snappy dialogue and emphasis on individual talents as well as group dynamics was very welcome. The fact that this book also doesn't ever have any of the girls judge each other is a real refreshing thing as well. The girls are obviously competitive, or have quirks the others don't like, but not once does that keep them from doing the right thing.

The inclusion of well known male super heroes - like The Flash, Green Lantern, Beast Boy, etc - was cool and Vice Principal Grodd is HILARIOUS. I didn't guess the villain of the piece, though they weren't really the focus of it anyhow. The nods to continuity were fun for adults reading the book (Supergirl's horse "Comet", Batgirl talking to "Oracle", Harley's speech patterns and Ivy's favorite pet venus fly trap) and all the puns ever for Bumblebee (I honestly didn't know you could make that many about bees).

Can't wait for the next volume and now excuse me I have some toy stores to raid because I need all their dolls like yesterday. ( )

I think that part of the weirdness about this book for me was that it wasn't actually created for me. I had women that I looked up to when I was a pre-teen and teen, and I still look up to those women. I don't necessarily need a book like this to be there for me too.

Still. Even though it wasn't written with my age (let's go with over 25) I enjoyed the story because it had many of my favorites. From Poison Ivy to Harley, to Supergirl and Batgirl (although, um, why is James Gordon a teacher there and not the head of Security or something?) It was interesting (and well done) how they went through each of the girls and how they were as students, not to mention what their academic weaknesses/power weaknesses were, and then they each had to face those weaknesses.

I will say that I wasn't too surprised by the 'bad guy' in it unfortunately. But, I did like the story that was the backstory for the 'bad guy'.

One thing that depressed me was Bumblebee. Not because she was in it, I liked her story. But, I would have loved to see Vixen in there too, or any other non-white hero so that it wasn't just Bumblebee and Katana in there. (And, if you can apparently have a Flash in there, why not have Bunker in there, or Victor?)

I got this galley through Netgalley on behalf of DC Comics. ( )