Supervillainy and Other Poor Career Choices

Subject line is main point.Reluctant man forced in to super villain circles trying to use his wits and knowledge of technology to survive. He has no real powers but manages to survive by luck and wit. Eventually becomes more villainous but never truely evil. Does desperate things but struggles with conscious and possibly combat stress. Very realistic and exceptional character development. World and powers is well built.

The story is about Erich and how he is pretty much forced into a gang because of a powersuit that comes into his possession. He is a significantly gifted engineer and uses his skills to make the suit live up to the gang boss's expectations.Erich comes off as an ass with his short, curt replies and his dislike of people. His social skills are pretty abysmal. It is hinted in the story that he is slowly starting to lose his empathy for people due to him being thrust into the frontlines of the gang. He also starts developing a drinking problem to deal with the stress and PTSD of his actions. I hope that this doesn't become a major issue moving on because I feel it would detract from his character and make me lose respect for him and his story.There are pretty noticable and bad editing errors in the book. Paragraphs suddenly stop and start again in the middle of a sentence, italicized words become bolded halfway through the book, and some minor punctuation errors.Overall, it was a fun read and I enjoyed my time. Looking forward to the next one.

I know the title is a bit strange, but it fits my feelings towards this story. Its an interesting tale, with the main character being a deliberately hidden mystery wrapped up in just enough angst to make him believable (if annoying at times.).Its well written overall, and the proof-reading and editing were solid, so there was little to jar me with bad words or horrible grammar.Sadly, there was one huge flaw that dropped this from a solid 4 star to a shaky 3 star and that was the "I'm going to write a sequel ending." This ending is terrible. It doesn't offer closure on any of the dangling plot threads. In fact, it opens up at least 2 more that didn't exist until the final chapter. Or at least they hadn't been revealed.Now some of that could be forgiven as opening up a new plot for the sequel and to give the reader a reason to anticipate the next book. However, with the fact that the main plot wasn't satisfying, and there were a number of plot threads left dangling when the scenes with the MC finish that did not directly involve the new threads, there was just an emptiness in the ending that frustrated me (almost as much as that terrible sentence I just wrote does. :P )I do encourage people not to completely avoid this book. There are some great elements. Sadly, the ending was just off enough that I can't put this on my recommend list.

A rather good read, and a fantastic first book. The best thing about books with anti-hero or villain-protagonists is the ability to really examine the motivations of our main characters, what makes the "evil" people tick. It is an easy slide from our "hero" screwing a drug addict Meta on a technicality of pawn shop rules, to killing in self defense with a pulse cannon, to outright assault and murderous warfare, to bloody revenge and vigilantism. It reads quite close to a memoir of a person in denial hitting rock bottom and slowly clawing their way back up. The book rather seriously takes a deep look at those parts of our self we would rather not acknowledge, or would deny we have entirely. Jason is FORCED to look at those parts, use them and deal with the consequences of this. He does things he is not proud of, and is forced to come to terms and live with it.The book ending leaves several tantalizing leads into a sequel, which I eagerly await.This book is a must read at its price, and I would indeed recommend.

Much like William D Arand's "Super Sales" series we are introduced to a world in which powered individuals exist and how the lines of hero and villain are not always so black and white. Also, much like that series we are introduced to our MC who is looking to just live his life until opportunity knocks and then his goal becomes one of making a name for himself, expect that in this story it's all about getting back at his family and their obvious disdain for his situation. I'm interested to see what happens to our boy and his two ladies when now forced to leave the city with this shadowy group and family hot on their heels.Other than the obvious grammatical errors from the annoying number of sentence breaks to either missing the appropriate world or an additional world, I just felt that some needed character development was missing.

The premise is promising, but slightly better than mediocre in its execution. There were enough jarring grammatical errors to justify a better editor, and some of the spacing during cut aways left me wondering if the previous scene was continuing, or time had fast forwarded. I also wish that our protagonist had remained more of a nobody in origin than what the author tacked on part way through.Still, I thoroughly enjoyed the story and will likely be reading the second one. I hope that our author has only improved as the story continues.

This proved to be a very well written and surprisingly enjoyable book. The premise was entertaining and well executed and the world building was good and the writing was sufficiently immersive to pull the reader in. I take away one star only because of the poor editing which was distracting at times.

Pretty decent book. A lot of stuff in the plot seems to happen in the last 15 pages, wish a bit of it had been foreshadowed at least. The book could use a serious editing pass, there are tons of proofing errors and typos still remaining, which throw you out of immersion

Great story very well written, lots of quotes from pop music and other novels weather intentional or accidental was very enjoyable! My only slight niggle is that the Olympians as a superhero team was used in another superhero story I like but that was a minor niggle. The writing was superb! A lot of indie authors on kindle sometimes especially in their earlier efforts leave a lot to be desired with writing, but this story was written beautifully. Great story will be looking for more from the author

Turns the superhero genre on its head, by giving us the perspective of what it's like to fall into supervillainy quite by accident.The prose is punchy, the dialogue gripping, the action is visceral and well-paced, and it's all pinned together by a well-rounded cast, none of whom are perfect villains or heroes, all of whom are engagingly human.100% recommended, and I'm already looking forward to the next chapter.

A good enjoyable read with a hard edge and a likeable imperfect main character. cant wait for the sequel

Can’t wait for the sequel

I read the paperback version.The story and the characters are all great, unfortunately, whoever did the proofreadiong or editing could have used a spellchecker at the very minimum or known their there/they're/their differences, as well as other basic English word-spellings.So many errors, it made for a stumbling read as I hesitated over something I felt I read wrong but was a result of bad spellchecking.If you're not too fussed about typos, would recommend a read, but hopefully they'll make a second edition with the flaws taken out and the alignment and paragraphs sorted out properly.