Gary Karkofsky a.k.a Merciless: The Supervillain without Mercy™ returns in the fourth volume of the popular Supervillainy Saga. Having discovered the world’s greatest superhero slain by his doppelganger from another reality, Merciful: The Supervillain with Mercy™, and the arrogant President Omega, Gary dedicates himself to overthrowing both. Unfortunately, this is harder than it looks since … Merciful has all of Gary’s genre savviness while President Omega has the entire brainwashed United States military behind him. In the end, though, there can be only one ruler of the world and two of these three feuding villains will have to go.
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This review is for the audio book.
I enjoyed this fourth instalment to the supervillainy series. You have to have read or listened to the previous books to stand any chance of understanding what is happening and a good and wide range of tv or movie knowledge helps too. The snarky one lines and come back continues as an acclaimed super villain battles to save the ones he loves and his city, just so he can take it over at a later date. There is plenty of action and things blowing up and a number of twists that you didn’t expect but will certainly have you starting the next book right away.
Gary a.k.a Merciless and cloak have to fight there biggest foe yet, Gary – a.k.a Merciful from another timeline. Merciful has changed the world as Gary knows it, after world war 3 and the only way to put it back to rights is to form a resistance army full of evil henchmen. Some will die and as long as it’s not someone he cares about Gary will stop at nothing to see the end of his evil doppelganger, who is masking his intentions as good. Gary knows how other Gary thinks and knows that it might just be a battle to the death, unless he has learnt some new tricks. Who will come out on top? And at what cost?
I liked the narrator he does a wide range of voices that just sound right for the individual characters and helps being the story to life.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
This is an awesome follow up to the previous supervillainy book and a good way to end the current adventure, while also setting up the next adventure. The series keeps getting better and better, and I like the new characters that the author introduces. If you love superhero books, this is a must read.
The Science of Supervillainy
The Supervillainy Saga, Book 4
By: C. T. Phipps
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
This is an audible book I requested and the review is voluntary.
I love this series…I think they just get better and better. There isn’t a paragraph that goes by that isn’t full of snark, witty and clever comments (often I catch later on), and more that keep a smile on my face or bring out a giggle or two. The dialogue alone is worth it, so funny and hilarious. The descriptions of the characters, their names, (Evil McEvil Pants) but don’t quote me but something like that, I was giggling at the time. This was an audible book after all. The crazy plot, only Phipps can think of such craziness. I enjoyed the whole book. I wish I had all of them in audible so I could listen to them just to unwind.
The narrator is perfect. It is hard to do comedy right and this narrator is spot on! The lines are done so the comedy comes out as they should! Funny, sly, witty, and with just a bit of snark but not enough to be annoying. Great performance and perfect audible book!