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I'm about halfway through So Not a Hero, by S.J. Delos. I like the story and worldbuilding, and I already have the sequel, but the (lack of) editing is getting on my nerves.
For instance, there's a scene where the narrator gets hit by an energy blast, removes the damaged shirt at the end of the fight, goes upstairs, gets offered a loaner shirt, and removes the damaged shirt again to change into the new one - without having put it back on in between. (Which would be a neat trick, as it came off in pieces.) There are a few other continuity and/or worldbuilding glitches, but most of the issues I'm seeing are more of the "dropped comma" or "bad hyphenation" variety.
As I said, though, I'm enjoying the story itself. It's nice to see a superhero novel that deals with the more practical issues of having superpowers, the kind of things that never seem to come up in graphic novels. (An early chapter notes some of the problems super-tough people run into with having sex.) The book also does a decent job of dishing out the setting details and terminology gradually, with minimal expository lumpiness.
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