Forging Hephaestus

I did not find anything exceptional about the premise: a young woman with super powers is enlisted to be trained in the super villains league. If the ‘villains' here is suppose to be a twist, it is of no consequence. The villains have more rules and codes of moral conduct then the average do gooder hero. I found that to be a bit cringy, but overlookable.

Therefore, this is just a story of people with super powers and how they organize into a league of individuals with the same interest. The book deals with recruiting, training and rules to follow. Other than that, there is a handful of small stories about different super powered humans (and aliens, and AIs).

The mains characters, writing and dialogues are just OK, but the main plot is slowly exposed or non-existent. This is the killer for me. I suspect this books acts as an introduction to the other, possible more interesting, ones.

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