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Chick lit meets comics lit in Estep's fresh debut. Carmen Cole, "reporter extraordinaire" for the Exposé in Bigtime, N.Y., is on a mission—to unmask all superheroes and über villains—after catching her fiancé, Matt Marion (aka the Machinator), in bed with her best friend, Karen Crush (aka Crusher), on Carmen's wedding day. But after Carmen outs a member of the Fearless Five, Travis Teague (aka Tornado), and Travis kills himself, she's not only devastated, she's demoted to society reporter. When
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I ended up liking this (and the main character) a lot more than I thought I would. Carmen is all too human and reacts badly to being hurt and that leads her into exposing superheroes and ubervillians. When something bad happens she realizes they are people too and quits until threatened. This book is somewhat tongue-in-cheek and who the Fearless Five and Malefica are shouldn't surprise anyone. But the book is fun and I will be picking up the sequel.
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