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Supervillainy and Other Poor Career Choices Paperback – April 11, 2019

by J. R. Grey (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,371 ratings
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Engineer.Survivor.Supervillain. When a down on his luck engineer ends up coming into possession of a rundown suit of power-armor, he sees an opportunity to make some quick cash by selling it off to the nearest supervillain. Unfortunately for him, what should have been a quick and easy sale to pay off his debts quickly grows into an ongoing series of events that serve only to drag him deeper and deeper into the criminal underbelly of the city he calls home. In no time at all, Erich finds himself fending off Neo-Nazi gang members, crazed capes, and the dangerous affections of his newest employer's criminally insane daughter. All he wanted to do was make a quick buck...
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    Supervillainy and Other Poor Career Choices
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    298 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publication date
    April 11, 2019
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1093568615
  7. ISBN-13
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (April 11, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 298 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1093568615
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1093568615
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.14 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,371 ratings

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4.4 out of 5 stars
4.4 out of 5
1,371 global ratings
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4 Stars
Good book needs to be looked over one more time.
This book was really good. I would recommend it however, it suffers from one problem, Paragraph brakes. There are times where the paragraph brakes mid-sentence. There are also times where a scene-break should be present. Specifically on page 209 the character is in the middle of a fight he struggling with and then he is in a completely different area. There could be some kind of scene brake here. The table of contents does not have page numbers. However this is all editing issues That could easily be fixed with a second edition. The plot of the book is good. The characters are interesting. The villains are competent, which is how a book like this should be. The world is interesting. The editing issues are the only reason i give it 4 stars, otherwise it would be five stars.
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TnT
5.0 out of 5 stars good read and descent twist
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2024
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Not bad but the plot could have a bit more detail . Overall I like it a lot .

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A. Ludwig
4.0 out of 5 stars Story works, editing doesn’t
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2019
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This is a jacka$$ MC story, FYI. By the end of the book, the MC is almost someone you want to know, which bodes better for book 2, but he's not terribly likable for 70% or so of the book. The other characters aren’t as well fleshed out and mostly bitchy/greedy so far. Blur seems the best of the lot and she only shows up as cameos.

The world is interesting, however, in a semi post-apocalypse in comic book style. The plot lines wandered a little bit but contained and maintained a full story while leaving enough questions for a sequel.

The editing sucked. Punctuation was all over the place, homonyms butchered frequently (i.e., they’ll instead of there’ll), and no grasp of the difference between dialogue tags (said, screamed, shouted, etc.) and actions (grinned, nodded, stood, looked, etc.). Oh, and a bit of redundancy with a hefty side of passive voice in places. Sucked, but usually not badly enough you couldn’t figure out what the author meant. I enjoyed it enough that I'm debating reading a sequel if he puts one out. If it looks a bit better edited, I probably will.
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joshua leines
5.0 out of 5 stars Best super villain novel yet.
Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2022
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Best serious supervillain story yet.
Reluctant man forced in to super villain circles. Uses his wits and knowledge of technology to survive. He has no real powers but manages to survive because although he is a vanilla human he has a high IQ. Does desperate things but struggles with conscious and possibly combat stress. Very realistic and exceptional character development. World and powers are well built.
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SpartenCommando
4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed It
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2019
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The story is about Erich and how he is pretty much forced into a gang because of a powersuit that comes into his possession. He is a significantly gifted engineer and uses his skills to make the suit live up to the gang boss's expectations.

Erich comes off as an ass with his short, curt replies and his dislike of people. His social skills are pretty abysmal. It is hinted in the story that he is slowly starting to lose his empathy for people due to him being thrust into the frontlines of the gang. He also starts developing a drinking problem to deal with the stress and PTSD of his actions. I hope that this doesn't become a major issue moving on because I feel it would detract from his character and make me lose respect for him and his story.

There are pretty noticable and bad editing errors in the book. Paragraphs suddenly stop and start again in the middle of a sentence, italicized words become bolded halfway through the book, and some minor punctuation errors.

Overall, it was a fun read and I enjoyed my time. Looking forward to the next one.
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Phaedra Whitlock
5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2019
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Well paced, in an interesting world. Violence is more left to your imagination and characters are interesting but as the story is told from the view of a man who doesn't like socializing, there view into those around him is somewhat limited. You may not know why they do the things they do but by the end a lot of pieces do get filled in.
Despite being antisocial, Mechromancer is easy to get along with as a reader and I hope there are more of these books coming.
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Mvargus
3.0 out of 5 stars Missed the landing completely.
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2019
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I know the title is a bit strange, but it fits my feelings towards this story. Its an interesting tale, with the main character being a deliberately hidden mystery wrapped up in just enough angst to make him believable (if annoying at times.).

Its well written overall, and the proof-reading and editing were solid, so there was little to jar me with bad words or horrible grammar.

Sadly, there was one huge flaw that dropped this from a solid 4 star to a shaky 3 star and that was the "I'm going to write a sequel ending." This ending is terrible. It doesn't offer closure on any of the dangling plot threads. In fact, it opens up at least 2 more that didn't exist until the final chapter. Or at least they hadn't been revealed.

Now some of that could be forgiven as opening up a new plot for the sequel and to give the reader a reason to anticipate the next book. However, with the fact that the main plot wasn't satisfying, and there were a number of plot threads left dangling when the scenes with the MC finish that did not directly involve the new threads, there was just an emptiness in the ending that frustrated me (almost as much as that terrible sentence I just wrote does. :P )

I do encourage people not to completely avoid this book. There are some great elements. Sadly, the ending was just off enough that I can't put this on my recommend list.
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nate haux
5.0 out of 5 stars Not afraid to investigate the things we don't like about ourselves.
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2019
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A rather good read, and a fantastic first book. The best thing about books with anti-hero or villain-protagonists is the ability to really examine the motivations of our main characters, what makes the "evil" people tick. It is an easy slide from our "hero" screwing a drug addict Meta on a technicality of pawn shop rules, to killing in self defense with a pulse cannon, to outright assault and murderous warfare, to bloody revenge and vigilantism. It reads quite close to a memoir of a person in denial hitting rock bottom and slowly clawing their way back up. The book rather seriously takes a deep look at those parts of our self we would rather not acknowledge, or would deny we have entirely. Jason is FORCED to look at those parts, use them and deal with the consequences of this. He does things he is not proud of, and is forced to come to terms and live with it.
The book ending leaves several tantalizing leads into a sequel, which I eagerly await.
This book is a must read at its price, and I would indeed recommend.
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Jesse
4.0 out of 5 stars An imaginative antihero origin story
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2020
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The premise is promising, but slightly better than mediocre in its execution. There were enough jarring grammatical errors to justify a better editor, and some of the spacing during cut aways left me wondering if the previous scene was continuing, or time had fast forwarded. I also wish that our protagonist had remained more of a nobody in origin than what the author tacked on part way through.

Still, I thoroughly enjoyed the story and will likely be reading the second one. I hope that our author has only improved as the story continues.
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Rod B
5.0 out of 5 stars Super Hero Dark Comedy
Reviewed in Canada on March 27, 2021
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Great book. Preparing to read the next novel in the near future. Adult in nature. Not for kids. Need two more words in review.
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Cliente de Kindle
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
Reviewed in Mexico on February 20, 2020
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Good for noobies about the stile of superhero novels if you're a fan of this kind of books well.. nothing new to see here
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Jan De Lathouwer
4.0 out of 5 stars Great story, shame about the many many typos
Reviewed in Germany on December 3, 2020
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I read the paperback version.
The story and the characters are all great, unfortunately, whoever did the proofreadiong or editing could have used a spellchecker at the very minimum or known their there/they're/their differences, as well as other basic English word-spellings.
So many errors, it made for a stumbling read as I hesitated over something I felt I read wrong but was a result of bad spellchecking.
If you're not too fussed about typos, would recommend a read, but hopefully they'll make a second edition with the flaws taken out and the alignment and paragraphs sorted out properly.
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Bm Ciardini
5.0 out of 5 stars Great!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 1, 2020
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Great story very well written, lots of quotes from pop music and other novels weather intentional or accidental was very enjoyable! My only slight niggle is that the Olympians as a superhero team was used in another superhero story I like but that was a minor niggle. The writing was superb! A lot of indie authors on kindle sometimes especially in their earlier efforts leave a lot to be desired with writing, but this story was written beautifully. Great story will be looking for more from the author
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Kindle Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars It's a fun read
Reviewed in Australia on May 12, 2021
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Needs a bit of an edit, but ignoring that it's a good read. Fun for anyone who has read Worm as I could very much see it sitting in the same universe but it doesn't suffer from escalation exhaustion.
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