Everybody in Chicago has a "superhero
sighting" story. So when a villain attacks editorial assistant Gail Godwin
and she's rescued by superhero Blaze, it's a great story, and nothing more.
Until it happens again. And again. Now the media has dubbed her Hostage Girl,
nobody remembers her real name, and people are convinced that Blaze is just her
boyfriend, Jeremy, in disguise.
Gail's not so sure. All she knows is that when
both Jeremy and Blaze leave town in the same week, she's probably doomed. Who
will save her now?
Yet, miraculously, the
villains lose interest. Gail is able to return to her life … until she wakes up
strapped to a metal table by a mad scientist who hasn't read the news. After
escaping—now more than human herself—she's drawn into a secret underground
world of superheroes. She'll have to come to terms with her powers (and
weaknesses) to make it in the new society, and it's not easy. After all,
there's a new villain on the rise, and she has her sights set on the one and
only Hostage Girl.
Superheroes Anonymous
(Superhero Fantasy)
By Lexie Dunne
Harper Voyager Impulse
ISBN #978-0062369123
Price $6.99 (paperback)
323 Pages
Rating 4-Stars
“Good Writing, And
Interesting Concept.”
I like a novel with a strong female lead.
Unfortunately, this one doesn’t have one. Gail Godwin, better known as Hostage
Girl because super villains like kidnapping her just to bring super hero Blaze
to rescue her. Now that Blaze – or her boyfriend, Jeremy Collins – has moved
from Chicago to Florida, Gail believes her days as Hostage Girl will cease and
she can lead a normal life. She’s wrong, of course. Dr. Mobius kidnaps her and
shoots a concoction of radioactive chemicals into her, which we know is going
to turn her into a super hero, if he isn’t careful. His reason is to force
Blaze back. There is a raid and … well, let’s not tell the whole plot.
The author’s writing is very good, and though
the concept is interesting, it just doesn’t get my attention. I was bored most
of the way through the book, but wanted to see how it ended. It didn’t. Gail is
arrested, and the book is continued to the next novel. I hate novels that don’t
come to a final conclusion. Why must the reader be forced to buy “the next
book” to see how the first novel ended? Harper Collins, the publisher of this
book should know better. Shame on them! I didn’t want to give the book a
3-Star, which it truly deserved, and certainly wasn’t going to give it a
5-Star, so I settled on 4-Stars because of the author’s writing is good. Can I
recommend it? Maybe comic book fans will enjoy all the super villains and super
heroes, but I’m not sure if even they will give it a 5-Star, but I’ll let them
decide. They can do the recommending also. I can only recommend the author’s
writing ability, not the story.
Tom Johnson
Author of CARNIVAL OF DEATH
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