XMen, The, Marjorie M. Liu
XMen, The, Marjorie M. Liu
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X-Men, The
Dark Mirror

Author: Marjorie M. Liu, Marvel

Narrator: Tristan Wright

Unabridged: 7 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Marvel

Published: 04/26/2021

Categories: Fiction, Superheroes

Synopsis

Feared and mistrusted by the very people they have sworn to protect, the X-Men are a band of mutant heroes dedicated to defending humans from those mutants who would use their powers to harm and destroy. Blessedsome would say cursedwith awesome abilities, the members of the X-Men are Earth's last defense against villains and madmen... and the future's only hope.Jean Grey awakens in an unfamiliar room. She is weak, disoriented, stripped of her telepathic and telekinetic powersand trapped in someone else's body. Also prisoner are her teammates Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, and Nightcrawlertheir minds held hostage within the bodies of strangers. Who has brought them here, and for what purpose? The answers lead to a terrifying plan that threatens not only the X-Men, but all of mutantkind...

About Marjorie M. Liu

Marjorie M. Liu is an attorney who has lived and worked throughout Asia. She hails from both coasts, but currently resides in the Midwest, where she writes full-time. Her works include A Taste of Crimson, the eight-title Dirk and Steele series, X-Men: Dark Mirror, and the novella Hunter Kiss. She has also contributed stories to the anthologies Holidays Are Hell and Hotter Than Hell.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on March 25, 2015

My actual rating is 3.5 stars. This is based on the popular Marvel characters. In this one, some of the X-Men head to Seattle to check on a mental institution that is holding mutants. Without any notice, the X-Men wake up in this institution in different bodies that are human. They need to get back h......more

Goodreads review by Baba on April 08, 2020

An X-Men tale in paperback format… the story begins with Scott, Jean, Kurt, Logan and Rogue waking up in an asylum in other people's bodies and with no powers. A neat kicking off point for what turned out to be an OK adventure, but definitely a read for those already familiar with the team. 5 out of......more

Goodreads review by Garrett on July 06, 2014

While not high literature or anything, this book is FAR better than I expected a random X-Men paperback plucked off of the shelf of the community center library to be, and tells a story that movie audiences would never tolerate, and that would likely not really work in the comics, either. Engaging a......more

Goodreads review by Eric on July 09, 2020

Five of the X-Men (the V-Men?) wake up in different bodies. Wolverine is now a busty young woman, Cyclops is a cute Asian woman, Jean Grey is now, I dunno, a rastafarian dude? Nothing makes sense. But it affords the X-Men an opportunity for even more navel-gazing than usual. Added bonus: lots of tal......more

Goodreads review by Kaotic on August 12, 2023

It was a fun look at the characters. The pacing didn't do it 100% for me, but I still enjoyed the story. It was also nice that the story acknowledged that being in a body of the opposite gender would cause some awkwardness for many. I feel like a lot of what I've read never comments on figuring out t......more

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