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> Worm ... It's centered around a "superheroes" kind of scenario with a level of analysis and thought that'll tickle the fancy of certain kinds of nerds. The main character's power is to control bugs - and it's a lot of fun to see the author make that seemingly lame power into something incredibly useful and lethal.

This is the kind of summary I saw years ago that made me want to start reading it, but I found that it was a lot more teenage-slice-of-life/romantic-drama-ish than I expected, and so a lot less fun for me than that summary promises. Is that just an early story thing, or does that permeate through the whole book?

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It's mainly just an early story thing. They eventually become too busy to have high school drama. Except sometimes they still have to go back to high school, though the stakes are so different and raised it's not really high school drama anymore.

I do agree there is far too much of that in the first arcs, but I think it goes away once Coil is introduced.

There is extremely little romance if you counted the pages compared to the length of the whole thing. It's 1.69M words.

I think it's definitely a character-driven story.

The specific teenage-slice-of-life thing is present throughout a good chunk of it, because the POV character is a teenager, but that does change somewhat, if only because she gets older.

That said, I found it amazingly fun basically from page one, and while romantic-drama-ish moments were a focus throughout, I also felt like "cool superpowers exploration" was a focus throughout. So while I think it might "get better" about the things that bother you, I can't be certian, since I liked it from the start :)

I can't remember enough to say, but it certainly emphasis the interactions and feelings between different characters. The story has an initial ending, and then a continuation which focuses on therapy recovery from all the psychological damage inflicted to the characters. Lots of dialogue

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