The stakes are huge and the hero is
short when Hostage Girl returns snarkier than ever in Lexie Dunne's urban
superhero fantasy Supervillains Anonymous
New superhero Gail Godwin, the one
and only Hostage Girl, is in big trouble: her nemesis Chelsea is loose, her
trainer Angélica is dead, and everybody thinks Gail did it. To make matters
worse, Davenport Industries has thrown her into a prison that just happens to
be full of the very same supervillains who used to kidnap her on an almost
daily basis.
Outside, things aren't going all that
great either. There's a conspiracy that runs all the way to the bedrock of the
superhero community, and it's affecting everybody Gail loves. With her friends
in the crosshairs, it's up to her to escape and get to the bottom of things.
Subterfuge, crime-fighting, and running away from everybody you know should be
a cinch, right?
Wrong.
Gail faces off against hero and villain alike just to stay alive. And you know
what they say about supervillains: if you can't beat them…join them.
Supervillains Anonymous (Super
Hero/Villain Fantasy)
By Lexie Dunne
Harper Voyager Impulse
ISBN #978-0062369147
Price $6.99
340
Pages
3-Stars
“Good
Writing, And Great Cover.”
In the last novel,
SUPERHEROES ANONYMOUS, we left Gail Godwin, aka The Hostage Girl, in prison for
the super villains. Eventually she escapes, and learns that the radioactive
chemicals Dr. Death had administered have somehow been transforming her into a
“super” person. But she needs help with the process.
Unfortunately, the second story
does not improve from SUPERHEROES ANONYMOUS, even though SUPERVILLAINS
ANONYMOUS starts out with a nice pace, it quickly slows down, and by the end of
the story we don’t see any real progress in the series. Gail Godwin hasn’t
improved her situation at all. I gave the first novel a 4-Star rating for the
author’s writing, but that just doesn’t carry this second novel. I’m still
surprised that a big publishing company like HARPER COLLINS allowed these books
under their imprint. The best part of this book is the cover, and I’ve seen it
before on a better novel from a HARLEQUIN imprint. I can’t honestly recommend
this book, or the series.
Tom Johnson
Author of PARTNERS IN CRIME
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