Villains Inc. is the second book in the Wearing The Cape series written by
Marion G Harmon. It is an indie book that was released through CreateSpace on
30th March 2012. The ISBN for this book is 1475125968. I bought this in paperback form can’t remember if it was eBay
or amazon worth checking as there was a price difference.
There are lots of spoilers in this review so be aware. I would also
recommend that if you are interested in this series then you should start with
Wearing The Cape by Marion G Harmon.
WHY I BOUGHT THIS
I picked up the first book for free after trying to populate my newly
bought second hand Kindle with a few books I might actually bother to read and
was blown away.
WHAT I THOUGHT
Chicago sounds like a fun city and it has always been an American city
that I wanted to visit even without its own superhero team. The world painted
in the Wearing The Cape series is
rich and detailed by the end of this book you know everything you need to know about
how superhero bureaucracy.
Can we also talk a bit about how awesome Hope is as a lead character?
Even though this is only the second book she has already been through so much
but it is the fact that we can believe her journey, dealing with her PTSD while
still doing her best to do her job and getting on with her life which was
hardly settled now as she still feels the push and pull between her life as a
hero and the life she knew before.
Villains Inc. is a pretty straightforward idea as a plot in a world with
superhumans why wouldn’t organised crime want their own team of enforcers after
all when one bullet proof man can knock over a bank or a police station by
himself. I also like the fact that this
idea was opposed strongly by the super powered law abiding community in the
past.
I’m not going to go over everything that happens in the book I just
really enjoyed reading it and I am impressed by the fact that the quality of
the writing improved in this book and that the author isn’t settling into a
rut.
