Sidekick (Sidekick in the City, #1)
Auralee Wallace
Heroes meets Bridget Jones in this brilliant, hilarious debut novel about a girl who just wants to save the world ... Bremy St James, daughter of billionaire Atticus St James, has been cut off from the family fortune and is struggling to survive in a world that no longer holds its breath every time she buys a new outfit. To make matters worse, her twin sister is keeping secrets, loan sharks are circling, and the man of her dreams — a newspaper reporter — is on assignment to bring down everyone with the last name St James. Things are certainly looking bleak for the down-and-out socialite until a good deed throws her into the path of the city’s top crime-fighter, Dark Ryder. Suddenly, Bremy has a new goal: apprentice to a superhero, and start her own crime-fighting career. Ryder has no need for a sidekick, but it turns out the city needs Bremy’s help. Atticus St James is planning the crime of the century, and Bremy may be the only one able to get close enough to her father to stop him. Now all she needs to do is figure out this superhero thing in less than a month, keep her identity secret from the man who could very well be The One, and save the city from total annihilation. Well, no one ever said being a superhero would be easy...
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Oh, what madcap fun this was! I'm trying to think of a comparison for you to convey the tone used. It's certainly not serious urban fantasy. The heroine was mad as a box of cheese. The love interest was nerdalicious. The hero mentor was disdainfully brilliant. The bizarre, circus freak bad guys seemed very Gotham City to me. So I'm going to have to go with Batman as the tone.
In particular, because the "superheroes" are only heroes in the sense they have trained their bodies to be the best at what they do, and their minds to be fearless. There's no scientific experiment gone wrong, or super-humanness. And that's closest to Batman too, right? I'm not too up on my comic book heroes, you'll have to forgive me. And from what I do know, they've never before been led by a former Paris Hilton-esque heiress who has seen the error of her ways, and the evil of her father's, and has decided to TAKE ON THE WORLD ONE BAD DUDE AT A TIME!
*thunderclap*
It was just... I don't even know what word I want. Awesome is so overused. Crazy is certainly accurate, but not descriptive enough. It was a crazy, hilarious, nerdy wondersauce of fantasmical amazement.
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Good. Now go buy it and enjoy!
4 Stars ★★★★
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