Imagine a world that combines elements of The Incredibles, Discworld, and Marvel. That’s what you get in Forging Hephaestus (Villains’ Code Book 1). I really enjoyed this combination, and I really, really hope the series continues for at least a few more volumes. The basic premise is that the world contains meta-humans, those with special powers, and such people often become either heroes and join the Alliance of Heroic Champions, or a villain who joins the guild of villains. The organization and bureaucratization of crime […]
Working 5 to 9
Once again, I’m reviewing a sequel book in a series without having covered the first book. Some of the review will be very lightly spoiler-ish. The central conceit of the series: Fred Fletcher lived a quiet, boring life as an accountant. He liked this life. Then he died. (Hot tip: nothing good can happen at your high school reunion.) Fred did what any of us would do after becoming a vampire: made his day job his night job. Only the clients look a lot different now than […]
Meanwhile, inside the Brotherhood of Mutants
I started writing the synopsis for this story and everything made it sound like pretty much what you’d get if you set a story in Discworld’s Thieves’s Guild merged with the Assassins’s Guild with a splash of the Fast and Furious franchise. Which it kind of is. But isn’t entirely.* And it works. Tori Rivas gets busted while breaking into a secret file cabinet of a global tech firm. See, Tori was unaware that the firm is owned by one of the world’s most infamous […]
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