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Origins of a DList Supervillain eBook Jim Bernheimer Raffaele Marinetti Janet Bessey

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Origins of a DList Supervillain eBook Jim Bernheimer Raffaele Marinetti Janet Bessey

Prequels are often underwhelming, and reading about the early struggles of Cal didn't sound sufficiently interesting before I got started on Origins. I was wrong. The book manages to be just as funny as the original, and there is lots of action, adventure and interesting things going on. Bernheimer even manages to get an impressive amount of amusement riffing off of the unlikelihood of future events through Cal's random pre-Confessions thoughts about Aphrodite, saving the world, and a host of other subjects - all without ever feeling strained.

Bottom line, people that liked Confessions should like Origins. In fact, in some ways Origins is a better book -- Confessions was very short and built from separate episodes, and to a modest degree felt like two separate stories. Origins is longer, and more like a single story (even though some of the events in Cal's life are discrete).

Pull the trigger.


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Origins of a DList Supervillain eBook Jim Bernheimer Raffaele Marinetti Janet Bessey Reviews

I was a big fan of the first book (Confessions of a D-List Supervillain), and found this book just as excellent.

The first book, Confessions, introduced me to this genre, the biting, dark humor in the hero universe. This book, Origins, carries on the story style with just as much humor and quality of writing.

I reread the Confessions book before reading this to remind myself of the story, and was a bit stunned with how well meshed the two books are. Usually when an author writes a sequel or prequel, time has gone by and they are in a different place in life (or they have talked SOOO much about the earlier book) that they just write things slightly different. It isn't an easy thing to notice, but its there (perhaps, noticing this type of subtle thing is MY super power). Anyway... the Origins and the Confession mess so well together, they could easily have been written originally as one book and some publisher decided to cut it in half and publish in reverse order, 2nd half first. Or... perhaps all this super hero plot twist stuff has me seeing conspiracies that aren't there. Perhaps.

Regardless... this is a great book, its fun and easy to read but I give full props to the author... he has some writing chops. The story engages me and I found both books (orrrr.. both half books) hard to put down. I find myself recommending this book to friends that are looking for something new and fun to read.

If you are an 'adult', don't let the super hero cartoon'ish universe scare you, this is an entertaining read.
I put this story, and the original "Confessions of a D-List Supervillain" on par with Lawrence Watt-Evans Ethshar stories, most notably "The Misenchanted Sword and "With a Single Spell". Watt-Evans does stories of normal people caught up as heroes in high Fantasy. Cal Stringel is the equivalent in a Superhero realm. How would you deal if your day job was telling Iron Man or the Hulk the daily news?

Confessions of a D-List Supervillian is excellent. Fast read, fun, funny, well written, and just a good story. So....make a prequel. Prequels suck. They either put forward inconsistencies (looking at you C3P0 not knowing who Luke Skywalker is) or someone came up with a grand idea that was too long for one book, so took all the good ideas for the real book and made a prequel stripped of original material.

That doesn't happen here.

The single inconsistency I found in this very fun, amusing, and well written book was who told Cal that he wouldn't parole on his first try. EM Pulsive told him, and he recalled it as Moss Man telling. Maybe a writing error, maybe a character memory error. Still, for a prequel if this is the only issue...excellent.

This novel captures all of the fun and humor of the original. I can only give extra kudos for the author's effort to end this book with the opening line of the original story,

That said....the Passive-Aggressive Menace deserves more than several paragraphs. I'm hoping future stories in this world show him to his potential.
Prequels are often underwhelming, and reading about the early struggles of Cal didn't sound sufficiently interesting before I got started on Origins. I was wrong. The book manages to be just as funny as the original, and there is lots of action, adventure and interesting things going on. Bernheimer even manages to get an impressive amount of amusement riffing off of the unlikelihood of future events through Cal's random pre-Confessions thoughts about Aphrodite, saving the world, and a host of other subjects - all without ever feeling strained.

Bottom line, people that liked Confessions should like Origins. In fact, in some ways Origins is a better book -- Confessions was very short and built from separate episodes, and to a modest degree felt like two separate stories. Origins is longer, and more like a single story (even though some of the events in Cal's life are discrete).

Pull the trigger.