Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Superheroes Anonymous
    Unavailable
    Superheroes Anonymous
    Unavailable
    Superheroes Anonymous
    Ebook331 pages5 hours

    Superheroes Anonymous

    By Lexie Dunne

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    Everybody in Chicago has a "superhero sighting" story. So when a villain attacks editorial assistant Gail Godwin and she's rescued by superhero Blaze, it's a great story, and nothing more. Until it happens again. And again. Now the media has dubbed her Hostage Girl, nobody remembers her real name, and people are convinced that Blaze is just her boyfriend, Jeremy, in disguise.

    Gail's not so sure. All she knows is that when both Jeremy and Blaze leave town in the same week, she's probably doomed. Who will save her now?

    Yet, miraculously, the villains lose interest. Gail is able to return to her life … until she wakes up strapped to a metal table by a mad scientist who hasn't read the news. After escaping—now more than human herself—she's drawn into a secret underground world of superheroes. She'll have to come to terms with her powers (and weaknesses) to make it in the new society, and it's not easy. After all, there's a new villain on the rise, and she has her sights set on the one and only Hostage Girl.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 18, 2014
    ISBN9780062369116
    Unavailable
    Superheroes Anonymous
    Author

    Lexie Dunne

    Lexie Dunne is a woman of many masks, all of them stored neatly in a box under her bed. By day a mild-mannered technical writer and by night a novelist, she keeps life interesting by ignoring it completely and writing instead. She hails from St. Louis, home of the world's largest croquet piece, where she can be found reading comics and spoiling her dog. Supervillains Anonymous is her love letter to the caped evildoers of the world. She does not count herself among their company, no matter how many cliffhangers she writes.

    Read more from Lexie Dunne

    Related to Superheroes Anonymous

    Related ebooks

    Fantasy For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Bone Shard Daughter

      Sep 9, 2020

      RELEASED 10 SEPTEMBER 448 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Andrea Stewart Publisher Orbit Books Epic fantasy has long had a thing for One True Kings. You know the drill: a dreadful tyrant is murdering people for fun and generally imperilling t

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Last Smile In Sunder City

      Jan 29, 2020

      RELEASED 6 FEBRUARY 352 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author Luke Arnold Publisher Orbit Fans of Black Sails will likely find the name Luke Arnold familiar. He played John Silver in the pirate series, as well as being a mainstay on numerous other

      1 min read

    • Article

      Storyteller

      Nov 4, 2021

      Storyteller
      11 min read

    • Article

      One Word: Striking

      Jun 26, 2019

      One Word: Striking
      4 min read

    • Article

      Judges

      Mar 10, 2024

      The doctors assured me the shrapnel in my leg would do no further harm if they “let sleeping dogs lie,” or at least less harm than trying to take it out would cause. “Hey,” I asked them. “What if it decides to cut its way out all on its own?” My grea

      12 min read

    • Article

      Mourning a Stranger’s Suicide in Prison

      Aug 23, 2019

      It was an average Texas prison weekend when it happened. Chow had just finished, and the dorm was settling into its routine. The bolted-down metal tables in the dayroom were cluttered with bowls and commissary food as several women started cooking in

      6 min read

    • Article

      Faery Land

      Mar 24, 2020

      Faery Land
      8 min read

    • Article

      Fantasy and Reality

      Aug 3, 2017

      Fantasy and Reality
      4 min read

    • Article

      A Survey of My Right Arm

      Sep 1, 2019

      A Survey of My Right Arm
      11 min read

    • Article

      The Turn

      Aug 14, 2019

      HERE’S a story. In college I entered the spring semester of my freshman year on academic probation. There wasn’t one reason this happened. There were many. I had signed up for a computer science class called Digital Security with no programming knowl

      5 min read

    • Article

      A Debut Novelist Imagines Life After Her Own Death

      Aug 4, 2022

      I was 17 years old when I died. The post A Debut Novelist Imagines Life After Her Own Death appeared first on The Millions.

      9 min read

    • Article

      Nothing To Fear

      Jan 26, 2021

      Nothing To Fear
      8 min read

    • Article

      GhoST StoRies

      Apr 12, 2021

      GhoST StoRies
      8 min read

    • Article

      Chost Stories

      Apr 12, 2021

      Chost Stories
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Freshening

      Sep 15, 2018

      My cashier’s black hair was beautiful. Though not unlike mine, it was shinier and thicker, and hung glamorously down to her waist. It looked strong, too, like Christopher Reeve’s in the Superman movies. A strand of Superman’s silvery hair could hold

      21 min read

    • Article

      Detonator

      May 10, 2019

      Detonator
      22 min read

    • Article

      Quantum Physics for Mothers

      Dec 15, 2020

      Quantum Physics for Mothers
      10 min read

    • Article

      Dead Reckoning

      Sep 9, 2020

      Dead Reckoning
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Clarity of Violence

      Sep 5, 2019

      The Clarity of Violence
      7 min read

    • Article

      Prey

      Mar 10, 2024

      As I drove slowly toward the mob of angry protestors and my meeting with 200, I thought of 199. The ashes of a once hard man, staring at me with wide eyes that pleaded for hope like a dog begging for treats. I’d somehow found a way to give him that h

      41 min read

    • Article

      Brain as Adventurer

      Jun 1, 2023

      Brain as Adventurer
      5 min read

    • Article

      Why Do My Eyes Look Like Nipples?

      Aug 25, 2021

      Jem Clarke is in his very, very early fifties, is five foot zero inches tall and has never left the family home in Cleethorpes, which he still shares with his parents... ‘It’s a shame there’s not a nicer word for nipples,’ my Great-Aunt Jessie once t

      3 min read

    • Article

      Draw Me

      Jul 5, 2023

      Draw Me
      2 min read

    • Article

      Ode to Joy

      Mar 28, 2018

      Ode to Joy
      6 min read

    • Article

      When Life Bites

      Sep 14, 2020

      When Life Bites
      6 min read

    • Article

      Love And Other (chemo) Drugs

      Apr 14, 2019

      Love And Other (chemo) Drugs
      12 min read

    Reviews for Superheroes Anonymous

    4/5

    50 ratings7 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this. It was an easy, pleasant read that turns a lot of superhero tropes on their heads. Stupid names, silent superheroes (because otherwise people would ID them by their voice, right?), and supervillains who don't keep up with gossip. The whole thing was lots of fun--not particularly difficult to see where it all was going, but still fun.

      The only real issue I had was how abrupt the ending was. It wasn't a cliffhanger, exactly--it felt like the end of a chapter, rather than the end of a book. There was zero resolution on all accounts. I'd be more irritated if the sequel wasn't so cheap, buuut. Still worth noting before you begin: if you like the beginning, just go ahead and buy the second one ahead of time. If you don't enjoy the first chapter or two, put it down and walk away.
    • 4/5
      Pure candy. Fast-paced, sympathetic, nice take on superheroes. Even though the main character has had constant need of rescuing for the past years, she's not at all whiney about it. She still needs some rescuing when she gets her own superpowers, but she's learning to kick-ass, and at least she's not only rescued by men. The two female superheroes who become her friends are seriously badass... Just one warning, make sure to by the second book straight away, because this book ends with a major cliffhanger.
    • 2/5
      2015-08-17/12.5%: Is this going anywhere?2015-08-21/50%: Fifty percent?!? Seriously? WTF? This is dragging a LOT. Thus far it's all back story and no story. The writing is okay, but it feels like I could do it better and that's never a good sign.2015-08-22/60%: Wow. So this book feels like a LOT of exposition and no actual plot. The Hostage Girl idea is interesting. The Gail/Girl thing is annoying. We've got a new hero learning her powers, REALLY SLOWLY. I'm right on the edge of abandoning it. In fact, I think I just decided that my time would be better spent on a different book. Dunne isn't a bad writer but she needs to learn get to the point. If you're going to write a book that' largely dialog it should be interesting dialog. I feel like I'm filling in better dialog than Dunne has written and again, bad sign.
    • 4/5
      read for 2015 Book Feast- loved it. kinda mad soooooooo many things did not get resolved and you were just left hanging. yes, i know the book would have had to be 3 times as long but still kinda mad about it.

      that said love this take on the superhero world. this a book for anyone who loves superheros whether you have all the mythology memorized or just like to watch the movies/tv shows- this is a book you will enjoy.
    • 4/5
      A really fun satire adventure of comic book heroes. We don't know why yet, but a generation ago superheroes and villains manifested powers and are now a part of everyday life! The play on comic book heroes was lots of fun, the writing is sharp and the romance is cute. The ending is a bit of a cliffhanger, but I'm holding it together mostly >.>.
    • 5/5
      What a fun read!
    • 4/5
      This is one of those fun, fast reads--my definition of a speculative beach read. Gail is Hostage Girl. She's very relatable, very normal, and sick to death of being the frequent target of supervillains. She does her best to hold her own--even if the hospital staff knows her by name--and she always knows heroes like Blaze will show up to save her. Then things go wrong in a bad way. Blaze doesn't save her, and a mad scientist's concoction endows her with powers of her own.The only thing that frustrated me is the ending. It's a major cliffhanger. The good news is that Supervillains Anonymous comes out in June 30th!