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Strong Female Protagonist: Book Two by Brennan Lee Mulligan
5.0

Everything is pushed to a higher level in the second volume of this fantastic series: the stakes are more lethal! The powers are stronger! The art is in full color! Allison is concerned when she hears news of a serial killer beginning to operate in her area. The strange thing is that every victim of the killer is someone who was accused of rape or sexual assault, but who got off easy from the justice system. Allison heads back to the home-base of her old superhero team, The Guardians, to find one former teammate has ghosted, one is actively moving out to go start a nonprofit organization, and the last is having an identity crisis. Back on her college campus, Allison discovers the super-smart biodynamic engineer Lisa Bradley aka Paladin has been hired as a professor and is in the middle of constructing her new lab. Allison tries to get over her long-running crush on the former supervillain Menace and start dating, track down the mysterious serial killer, develop an independent study project, explore a surprising new power, and deal with a family health crisis. I am completely hooked on this series, some of the best superhero stuff I have ever read. I probably won't be able to wait for the next book to come out in print but will instead dive into the following chapters online at https://strongfemaleprotagonist.com. I love seeing Molly Ostertag's art develop into it's current style over the course of this satisfying installment.