Hench

[psocoptera]

Hench, Natalie Zina Walschots. 2020 superhero novel about a woman's path from temping for supervillains to becoming one. First person and very readable but also very much a book about how people justify awful actions to themselves. Maybe an insight into what trolls and doxxers think they're doing? I like cape lit and subversion of superhero tropes but it was also sometimes frustrating to be reading about someone using all their skills to make things worse for people. :/

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[ruthling]

I felt similarly. I liked when it was jokey and satirical, but when it came down towards the "real plot" it bothered me (and I felt like there'd been a bit of bait and switch too)