Superhero Satire

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits.

Bloomsbury presents The Hero Complex by Helen Comerford read by Carla Harrison-Hodge and Leda Hodgson In the second book of this swoony, striking YA duology, a teen girl finds herself reluctantly stepping into the role of superhero. It turns out that having superpowers doesn't always make saving...