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Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
5.0

What are superheroes anyway? Where do I shelve this? Sci-fi? Fantasy?

I remember watching the first Fantastic Four 2005 movie, or the Superman Returns movie, and the heroes were so horribly written that I focused more on the destruction they were causing and feeling bad for anyone killed or injured in the wake of these people "saving" the world.

Enter this book's MC Anna, who is good with numbers, and after having her leg shattered just by being pushed aside (read: slammed into a wall) by the hero Supercollider, becomes hell bent on figuring out the cost of these saving-the-day stunts. The cost is billions of dollars and thousands of lives.

Her blog with these findings brings out the stories of many who have had the same experience, as well as the attention of the super-villain Leviathan, who offers her a job because what better way to bring down a superhero than to expose the price of having them save the day and create a decline in hero-worship?

Ugh, I did a bad job in summarizing this. Let's just say:I had a lot of fun reading this. I couldn't put it down. I loved all the characters. Hooray for smart, cool, super-villains. Hell yeah, I bet he gives GREAT mandible! XD