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Old 01-26-2016, 07:00 AM   #23339
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I just finished Lexie Dunne's Superheroes Anonymous and immediately proceeded to the sequel, Supervillains Anonymous. If the second book also ends on a cliffhanger, I'm gonna be displeased.
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As I recall, it does not. Not high literature, but fun reads, the both of them.
Correct and agreed. The two make a decent origin story, and I'm curious to find out where the third book (due Septemberish) will go.

In the meantime, I read Action Figures - Issue 1: Secret Origins (acquired in a bundle) in one sitting right after finishing SVA, and I enjoyed it so much I wishlisted books three and four and bought book two. Unfortunately, those are Kindle-exclusive ebooks, so I had to convert book two before I could load it onto my Kobo. (I also ended up tinkering with the formatting quite a bit, as well as adding a proper TOC and splitting the handful of Big Chunky Text Files up by chapter. It looks a lot more like a proper ebook now.)

The Action Figures series is about a handful of teenagers who form a super-team. At least in the first book, the main narrator is a fifteen-year-old girl with flight and energy powers. It's a little disorienting to see a handful of third-person sections tossed in, but I got used to it after a bit. It's nice to see authentic teen characters in the book, as opposed to adults in young bodies; they're bright, but not Wise Beyond Their Years. They make boneheaded mistakes, sometimes serious ones, and the grown-up supers don't welcome them with open arms.

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Next up: Valour's Choice by Tanya Huff. The first in a series, and my first from this author. Mil SF.
I've got that in an omnibus volume with its sequel, as well as the next two books, in my paper TBR stacks. I swear I'll get to it one of these years...

Right now, though, I'm finally moving on with the second IFICS novel, Fractured Innocence. The first was about a girl coming to grips with the fact that she died and was "brought back" as a cyborg supersoldier; the second kicks off with her first field mission. If this goes well, I may go on with book three to complete the set (unless there's a fourth one now) before switching back to Action Figures 2.
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