This is so much fun! It’s like Arand’s “Super Sale on Super Heroes” but funny and full of quirky angsty characters with super powers!
SYNOPSIS:
This is a world of super powers where citizens are so used to super villain/heroes fighting in the streets and skies that hoo hum, it’s just Tuesday for them and they have trouble keeping all the names and powers straight.
An unknown super villain has killed all the heroes and the government is so desperate they are willing to reactivate all the sidekicks that didn’t work out back in the day. The main character is this Beta guy – an average Joe who gets unceremoniously drafted back into the super hero business. All he wants to do is be a normal guy, a father to his little boy, and maybe save up enough cash to buy a 5 Brothers on a Friday night. The crew includes drunken Allergy Girl, and Randy the King of ……. the Butterflies, plus other assorted clever and very very creative super… heroes/sidekicks.
I enjoyed the humor that infused this book. This was the first time after I heard “The End” on an audible book that they included funny production outtakes. The narrator Phil Thron was literally doing spit takes of laughing out loud at the stuff he was cold reading. My favorite one was the superheroes discussion while they were trying out their new costumes and comparing notes about the benefits vs the problems of wearing underwear or going commando. A tie for laugh out loud scene goes to when Randy was checking on an apparently incapacitated super hero by rapping on her forehead!
This book is written for an adult audience. There’s no sex, but the author used the F word a few times and a couple of other naughty words, but not enough that I would restrict a kid age 10 + from listening to it. My only complaint was it ended and now I have to wait for a sequel. I hope the author reads this and HURRIES up and writes a sequel faster! I will be buying any and all sequels but happily for me – I just found out he has a bunch of other books on Audible and has written over 100 books!!!