Marvel: What If...Kitty Pryde
Stole the Phoenix Force? (An X-Men and America Chavez Story) by Rebecca Podos is the
fourth book in the What If… series, but you could read this one
on its own. This one is a complicated time travel book with multiple timelines
and flashbacks throughout.
Billed as an X-Men and America Chavez
story, the main character is actually Kitty Pryde. Kitty Pryde is experiencing flashes
of another life. One where she had way different friends and is not a servant
of the Hellfire Club (mutant led organization that uses its powers for their
own ends) under Emma Frost. These flashes promise a better life.
Soon, a stranger, Betsy Braddock, finds
her and tells her that she has a psychic trail. A trail that leads into the
past. With her help, she can get back the life she should have led. She also
needs Pryde’s help to fix her own timeline as she too has a life she should
have led.
They are not the only ones seeking a way
to go back into the past and fix the timelines. America Chavez is as well.
They are trying to go back in the past
to where the X-Men have lost Jean Grey due to her murder by Dr. Doom and his
multiversal counterpart, The Whisper. They want to steal the Phoenix Force and
Jean Grey’s status as a Nexus Being. The Whisper knows that if they do that,
they will kill everyone who will ever live in this reality. The Whisper does
not care. The fact that there are two timelines, one of which were the X-Men
are all dead, means the heroes failed to save their teammate. Can the heroes
from the broken timelines save Jean Grey and reality?
This is a book with extensive
connections to X-Men history and is an action-packed adventure with strong
character development and romance. I think this book would be hard to follow
for people not very familiar with the X-Men as this read takes place over many
eras of X-Men history. This is a really good book if you are a fan of Kitty
Pryde or the X-Men.
It ends on a bit of cliffhanger since
there is setup for the last book, Marvel:
What If...The Multiverse Was Doomed? by DaVaun Sanders, which comes
out in August. Do not read the synopsis for the fifth book before finishing
this one.
Amazon Associate Purchase Link: https://amzn.to/48Pq2zc
My hardback reading copy came from the
Central Branch, aka Downtown, of the Dallas Public Library System.
Scott A. Tipple ©2026
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment