Mayhem and Madness Mayhem and Madness

Mayhem and Madness

Chronicles of a Teenaged Supervillain

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Publisher Description

Bailey never meant to be the bad guy in the bulletproof robotic suit, but with every mission he gets closer to finding his father . . . and he can't stop now.

Bailey is a pretty average sixteen-year-old in a pretty average town. He runs track, gets decent grades, and has an unrequited crush. So what is a super-powered flying suit of computerized armor doing twenty feet under his boring suburban home? Bailey needs to know where it came from, if it belonged to his long-missing father, and most importantly, if it can be used to bring his dad back.

This lightning-fast adventure inspired by classic comic book tales pushes a good kid to his limits and questions the difference between a hero and a villain. One day he's getting beat up by the captain of the football team, the next day he's robbing banks on Fifth Avenue, stealing diamonds from Tiffany's, and zooming through aerial dogfights. But how much bad is Bailey willing to do to bring his dad home safely?

For fans of Iron Man, superhero stories, and dark humor.

An ILA-CBC Young Adults' Choice!

GENRE
Young Adult
RELEASED
2019
August 13
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Holiday House
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
2.2
MB

Customer Reviews

HayesFan101 ,

To put it simply: no.

Look, I’m going to have to keep this review vague because I don’t want to spoil the book, if you do choose to read it still. Is it worth reading? Maybe. But here’s the deal: this author made a HUGE mistake on page 180. You’ll understand what I’m talking about if you read the book. Look, I understand that this is good for character development; I’m an author myself. But the author of this book did not go about playing this card correctly. No character development came from it, and quite frankly, it was just dumb. After reading that scene, I lost all enthusiasm I had in the book. I’m not just hating because of obvious reasons; this was a legitimately pointless scene. Bailey gains nothing from it, and Caroline certainly gains even less. Also, based on the ending, the author clearly wants to write a sequel. Well, guess what? I won’t be reading that because of this one problem. Mayhem and Madness had a great concept, yes. But this mistake ruined it all. It changed a book from an intriguing teenage action novel into a depressing book. That’s how I would describe the book. I skimmed the rest of the book without much interest because of this.
So, to suffice, don’t read this book if you want a good book until the end. The author ruined it halfway through. I hate to see such a good plot line go to waste.

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