So Not a Hero

So Not a Hero turned out to be a surprisingly engaging superpowered tale of redemption. It was a single person POV story following the life of former supervillain Crushette as she tries to get her life back on track after a few years in prison. The story had a good mix of action, humour, character d......more

TL;DR: A misogynistic tale of the world ogling a woman's boobs and butt when she is not busy shopping or worrying about men. Too much T & A. Too little super heroing. While there is some decent writing in this book, I felt the tone was completely uneven and the novel could have used much stronger ed......more

More of a 3.5, however I was less than surprised the author is male. There's a rather large amount of sexualization and objectification of most of the females going on that at times made me uncomfortable. Though not any more or less uncomfortable as the comic EMPOWERED I suppose. Karen's struggle is......more

This is a rough book to rate. On the one hand, I really liked the characters and worldbuilding; I thought those were done exceptionally well, with a couple of snags. I enjoyed the story, although it was fairly standard for the genre. What I grew to despise, in part because the rest was so good, was t......more

Book overall is heavy on misogynistic male characters and actions. I recommend reading the first two chapters on Amazon before purchasing - the worst actions appear there and if you can stomach those, the rest of the book is better. The author has set things up so you don't get caught half-way throu......more