I received a copy of this book from NetGalley and ECW Press in exchange for an honest review.

I love superheroes. So seeing a book called Chasing Captain America; mixing my love of science and maths with my love of comics and superhero films was bound to get my attention.

This book explores the fors and againsts, as well as the likelihood that we could create a superhuman - how far has technology come so far, and how far is it yet to go? How long until people contemplate prosthetic/ robotic limbs to gain an advantage in society? How long before brain doping becomes more widescale?

These are just a few of the questions put forward in this book. I particularly liked the superhero metaphors which Zehr included at the beginning of each chapter, as well as throughout the book. This broke up the science theory with a bit of fun, and something I'm sure many in society will be able to recall/ relate to. With this I think the book became accessible to a huge new target audience - those with a love for sci-fi and fantasy heroes and an interest in science as a whole.

Personally I do not have a professional biology/ chemistry background, but I have read other books with this content. Nonetheless, this book was great for me - I sometimes find science books quite heavy-going, and although I enjoy them, it takes a great deal of concentration to get my head around some ideas. This book however, is the perfect blend of a story, and of fact. The author is not biased, and does pose interesting and though provoking questions bound to excite anyone with an interest in the future of science.

Overall I am awarding this book a 4*/5 rating - and after a bit of digging I have found he also wrote books such as Becoming Batman, Inventing Iron Man - having read this book I will now definitely be looking to read these! If you have any kind of interest in science, or want an accessible and fun book to expand your knowledge and get you thinking, this is the one for you!

I found this book to be an exceptionally well-written piece of literature enlightening us about today's groundbreaking work (and discoveries) in medical science. Zehr blends awesome comic metaphors with real-life examples, bringing any topic into a candid, seamless understanding of how far we can push our base biology. You can refer to Chasing Captain America as a great source for educational purposes or even just to increase your own knowledge of the advances we have achieved thus far in the 21st century. I found the content to have been well-researched, thoroughly investigated, and relevant to the advances in our current day and age. If you're looking for something to make you appreciate how far we've come since Darwin, get yourself a copy.

Probably the least probable of Zehr’s comic trilogy, the science within makes you want to believe that becoming Captain America is a possibility. The book is dry at times, in large part due to the abundance of scientific terminology needed to accurately portray the narrative. If you have a desire to imagine the extremes of science and even a casual like of comic books, you will gain something by reading this book.