Ever run into a piece of media

That's somehow bad in a way that makes you want to talk about it? It happens to me sometimes and I don't think I'm alone because otherwise stuff like Mr. Plinkett reviews the Star Wars Prequels wouldn't be popular.

The only person I know in person to have downloaded the book I'm about to rag on has either never read it or read it and forgot about it entirely - it's an e-book they have, I've seen it, it's one of those things Amazon gives out as a freebie now and then, so I'm just going to do it out to the internet at large.

The series is "The Girl in the Box" though I've only read the first book, though there's a first-three out for free on Amazon, I might get those to see if it gets better or not, but I don't know yet.

The premise is basically borrowing from the X-Men, nothing wrong with that - says the guy doing that in two different setting... - there are super humans interspersed in the general population, but in this case they often correspond with mythology. The Greek gods were ancestors of metahumans, the Norse ice giants are a sort of metahuman, Cerebus is actually three dudes with a wolf-theme going, and so forth.

Sienna is the main character, she has some super strength and has been trained to fight. She also might have slightly super speed, she kind of seems to run circles around most opponents but it's been a bit since I've read it. She's been kept confined to her house most of her life until her mother goes missing and then the X-Men and Brotherhood send recruiters to fetch her for recruitment in a bout of interesting timing. I'm only barely joking about that, there are a few groups with competing interests but they're not gone into a whole lot of detail, especially the ones that don't manage to get her.

Anyway she's taken back to their headquarters and she's a smart-assed teen the whole while. I was kind of baffled how the other characters were so stunned at her rudeness. Surely if they've been recruiting metahumans for whatever purpose for years with a professional operation they've encountered mouthy teenagers before, right? Apparently they hadn't because every mean thing she says is met with flustered, dumb responses or simple slack-opened mouths. I was confused.

Turns out she's supposed to be smarter than everyone else too and with that established I suddenly realized they're supposedly stunned and overwhelmed by her wit.
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Not buying it.
I mean I have to gloss over intelligence issues myself when I write, and I avoid trying to do 'wit' because I know I'm not very witty, but...damn... maybe Sienna is super clever for a world with an average IQ of 77 or something. I had no freaking clue high intelligence was supposed to be a trait of hers until the last third of the book started trying to ram that trait down the reader's throat.

I mean, I'm not great at depicting that - school testing spoke fairly well of me supposedly, but I've never felt all that clever myself so I kind of doubt those results - and in what I've read of people's girl-power sorts of stories when they do include intelligence they kind of gloss over it too, the physique and strength feats get the attention. I admit I still haven't read a lot of muscle woman stories, but it's not "less than 10" any more, so I'm not speaking for everyone, just what I've seen.
I haven't seen anyone fall that flat on 'this character is super smart' since I stopped reading random fanfiction...

Anyway there's an evil super-violent dude that she fights again and again, as she's outmatched and can't seem to beat him. I think the writer was going for a relentless hunter sort of deal, and almost pulls it off. But then at the very end she's finally removed of an article of clothing, I think it's just a glove - she's fully dressed, head to toe the whole book - and finds out she has a death touch power which lets her win pretty much instantly. So all that work to build up tension about how she was outmatched by her pursuer and then it turns out she has the power to just kill him on physical contact.

Somehow there's an at least 8 book series about a girl who's stronger, smarter, faster than damn-near everyone around her and has instant-death touch. Just... what?

"So bad it's good?" Not so much. "Bad enough I want to rag on it to people?" Yeah, kind of.
I might not be all that good at the writing thing, but sheesh, no one has to part with money to read my weird little things.