Format: E-Galley, 384 pages
Release Date: November 27, 2019
Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse
Source: Publisher
Genre: Fiction / Superheroes
#HeroFail is the fourth installment in author Lexie Dunne's Superheroes Anonymous series. If you haven't yet read this series yet, how come? No really! This is an extremely fun and entertaining series which features a bunch of superheroes, and super-villains, and a girl who was once kidnapped by nearly everyone who is a super-villain constantly for 4 years straight until she was dosed with a radioactive isotope called Mobium and found some curious abilities of her own.
Former Hostage Girl Gail Godwin, who people still call her by that name in public, has become Raptor's apprentice. Gail, who has the ability to absorb abilities from
superheroes, really does try to do the best she can under crappy
situations. Some times she has to ask herself if it's all worth it,
especially when she is caught in the spotlight and her identity is
nearly exposed to the public. Number one rule of being a superhero,
never allow your identity to be revealed.
As Raptor, Gail is expected to
work in the darkness, let nobody know who she really is, be fast, and
merciless and efficient against villains. Gail has some interesting friends as well as enemies. From Angelica Rocha, who has taken Gail under her wing, and trained her, to Jessie Davenport, aka Razor, who chose Gail to become her apprentice, to Guy Bookman, the former superhero known as Blaze who is her love interest, as well as Razor, a villain who has decided that Gail is and will forever be her frenemy.
When Tamara Diesel makes
an unannounced entrance to a Davenport event, things go sideways
quickly and people end up sprayed with a toxic gas. To make matters worse, Gail has to face the reality that one of the most dangerous, & one of the original villains, Rita Detmer, has broken out of prison and somehow managed to do something to her powers. Rita just happens to be Raptor's main nemesis. With Heroes and Supervillains battling for supremacy, and two major villains stirring up trouble across the nation, Gail will
have to pull a rabbit out of her hat in order to survive.
Gail struggles at times with her new role as a super-hero. After all, she's been dosed with Mobium, arrested, and sent to Detmer prison for something she didn't do, exonerated, and then chosen to become an apprentice superhero. For Gail, there are
good days, & some days when Gail just wants to sit home and
let someone else pick up the slack for once. But, Gail may be the only one who is able to stop Rita and Diesel from upending the world and saving her friends.
The ending leaves me with questions that I hope I am able to find answers to. The author says that she never thought she would see the light at the end of the tunnel. Is this the final book in the series? Or, will she write another book? I am all for another book, but I am not selfish in being depressed if the author chooses to walk away and work on something else.
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