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. … 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.
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Just bought Superheroes Anonymous because I love superheroes more than anything in the world and I wish there were more books about them and it’s 99c so how can you go wrong??
How fun this one is! I must confess I love books where freakish cool things happen to “regular” people who turn out to have always been a little more than regular. Perhaps because I’ve secretly always thought I too was a little more than regular, and wanted freakish cool things to happen to me. In hindsight, perhaps, I don’t *actually* want …
SUPERHEROES ANONYMOUS by Lexie Dunne is a book I didn’t expect to like as much as I did. The premise seemed silly even by superhero standards: a perpetual hostage to supervillains who can’t figure out her boyfriend is a superhero (assuming he is) gets superpowers herself. Basically, the “Lois Lane becomes Superwoman” story. However, much to my …