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Does Whatever a Spider Can Including Photography, Nuclear Physics, and Being a Good Husband

The Venom Factor Omnibus by Diane Duane

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Spider-man is having a rough time.  Money is a little tight now that MJ is out of a job, and Peter is a grad student.  Plus Venom appears to be rampaging around New York City.  But the current rampage doesn’t quite fit Venom’s MO, and they claim not to have done the crimes.  So now Spider-man is teaming up with his antagonist to figure out what’s going on, and that’s just the start of the chaos. I’m not a big superhero person, but I’ve got […]

I was not prepared for just how left this one went

Ivory (Manhattan 10 #1) by Lola Dodge

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Lola Dodge kicks off a new series of superhero romance novellas with Ivory, the story of a Scandinavian goddess (maybe? it’s never quite clear on this point?) who finds herself mixed up with a superhero team. It’s 80% romance and 20% superhero fiction, if that’s relevant to you. This book didn’t work for me, for a lot of reasons. I liked the premise: super-powered flight attendant kills someone on her flight and ends up having to lie low with a team of supers who are […]

You got some zombie in my superhero novel…

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Target: Peter Clines’ EX-Heroes (EX-Heroes #1) Profile: Superhero Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Zombie Apocalypse EX-Heroes falls very clearly in my reading category of ‘book candy.’  It’s light, entertaining, but lacking many qualities of actual literary goodness.  Well, actually the concept is executed rather well and Clines manages to tell a pretty compelling story within his somewhat limited framework, so maybe the novel isn’t all that lacking.  But at the end of the day, there’s very little here that hasn’t been explored before.  Points for novelty notwithstanding. The book bills […]



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