Title: Super Sales on Super Heroes Pdf Super Sales on Super Heroes, Book 3
Felix would like nothing more than to take a vacation. A long one. One where he didn't have to wake up every morning and worry over casualty lists for the day.
Ever since he and the Legion had been forced to flee their headquarters four years previous, nothing had gone quite right. In fact, Felix and the Legion have been locked in a shadow war with enemies unknown. Ones with magic that could carve through their technology easily.
As the rest of the world fell apart, tearing itself to pieces at every turn with the return of the old gods, the Legion has held the chaos back. The price in blood has been climbing slowly, lately.
Felix suspects there's a change on the horizon. One that he hasn't prepared or developed a plan for. Or so his paranoia has been telling him. That there's a change coming now that'll shake up the world. One that will turn it inside out, Legion and Felix along with it.
Felix has decided it's time to push ahead and act. To finish things and protect his people at the same time. To take his Legion and make it safe.
Because that's all that matters in the end to him. His Legion. And it always came first.
Warning and minor spoiler: This novel contains graphic violence, undefined relationships/harem, unconventional opinions/beliefs, and a hero who is as tactful as a dog at a cat show. Listen at your own risk.
Skip if you haven't read Wild Wastes and Otherlife, Disappointed. Minor Spoilers for Book 2At the end of book 2 we had the following questions to be resolved in book 3, the final book in this series:Why did Felix's benefactor give him these powers?Who are the mysterious enemies opposing Legion at every turn?Who is behind the mysterious mind control crowns? Is it Skipper, the Hero's, the government?What happened to Kit, Ioana, and Mui before they came into Felix's care?Now that the 5 year truce is over, how will the conflict between Skipper and Legion be resolved?From my tone, you might be able to guess that the answer's to these questions do not appear in the pages of book 3. In fact almost no answers are given, and the series (yes, according to the author this is the last SSOSH book) ends with two characters lost in limbo.Clearly the author is trying to bring together some of the threads and hints he's seeded in this and his other books, and that was fine, but I'm very pissed off that this series, and these characters get no answers, no closure.Other issues:- If you haven't read all of the Wild Wastes, and Otherlife books, skip this book until you have. You won't have a clue what's going on. I have, and I'm still confused (see previous discussion of no answers).- If you deeply love the supporting cast in these books, prepare to be disappointed. The existing characters get comparatively little screen time. Of course, this is due to the author have to introduce you to all these characters from other books.Final Thoughts: I wish that half of this book was written under a different title. I wish the plot threads begun in Book 1 and Book 2 were completed, paid off, explain and not just exploded out of relevance. I wish this series hadn't morphed from a super hero series (It's in the title!) into a fantasy series. I read it, I enjoyed the ride, but ultimately left me disappointed.Edited for Grammer.Update:So after reading the 3rd Wild Waste book (I hadn't), I'm a little less grumpy about the experience as that book covers basically the same time period from the other point of view. Basically, if I'd read that first I wouldn't have been quite so surprised. I will point out that the 3rd Wild Wastes books gets closure for it's characters, and the characters from this series feel like fun cameo's instead of some other book taking over.Both books need an author's note at the beginning explaining the cross over with the other series, and both could use a character listing to help explain some of the missing backstory and relationships. I know that Randi and William are the same person, but I can't help but feel like reading the author's blog shouldn't be required to understand a book.Finally, I stand by my general disappointment with not getting closure on the plot threads from Book 2. I won't stop reading the author's books, but my trust has definitely been damaged.Not much in the way of Super Heroes So I've loved this series but this is the weakest so far, and I think it has a lot of problems.One of the oddest choices is that we start with a five year time skip. Yet, things are pretty much still at the status quo we left of at book 2. Legion has not expanded much, still being focused in pretty much one country. Legion doesn't have any fancy new toys or new people. Felix's personal relationships are still at the same place. Despite indicating they were going to be moving things over to Legion World at the end of book 2, apparently their settlement is barely developed at the start of Book 3, and not suitably developed enough if they wanted to move everyone over. With the portals, I have no idea why they would not put all the dormitories, research facilities, ect on legion world where they would be safe, other than a brief explanation of "it would be like running away again."There is also the problem that the author ties this book into some of his other series. One of the tie ins you will find out about early on, but the other comes later. If you haven't read these series you are missing out, but you can still read this. The early tie in comes off as "eh, why is he doing this," but the later one I thought was very cool.The problem is how the characters from these other series are used. Felix gets a new personal assistant, new body guards, new ect. He spends most of the book surrounded by an entirely new cast of women with the exception of Miu. The old supporting cast is shuffled off to the sideline, and for the most part are content with this, or even encourage it. The biggest problem about all of this is that it's not necessary.The characters don't serve an important role. The problem that the "magic of the dryads" solve is hastily introduced just before the dryads are introduced to fix it. Felicity, who the book seems to center around is characterized very little in this book. All you know from reading just Super Sales on Super Heroes is that she is extremely competent, utterly in love with Felix, everybody likes her, and her family was "poor" when she was young. That's about the extent of her characterization. She is basically an author written Mary Sue in this book. Everything that Felicity does in this book could easily have been taken care of by one of the preexisting women.If you followed the Tenchi Muyo OVAs and where upset when they made new ones only to focus on new girls, that was what this was like.Some of the new characters are good. The dragon girls are interesting additions, and I would have liked to see them more. Unfortunately they don't come in closer to the end. I thought we were going to see Felix being stuck with them for a longer period, developing a secondary harem, but what seems like it will be a fairly involved plot thread gets resolved fairly quickly in a literal Deus Ex Machina.Finally, as to the title of the review.There is not much in the way of super heroes in this book. A few powered make brief appearances, but the focus is instead on generic "magic" with ambiguous limits and abilities and "faith." Other than bringing people back to life, I can only think of one character that Felix upgrades all book, and that is just with a generic "sign on package." Never mind, I also remember that he gives Felicity a power as well. But we don't see much of him debating over what stats to upgrade or if he should give someone powers.We only see his "point total" page twice, both when he does not have access to his full set of powers. He spends most of the book unable to use his powers, and when he can we don't see him using it. Perhaps the author decided Felix is too powerful, and could not come up with a good way to deal with it, but it really felt like it belonged to a different series than the last two.I'm going to read the next one. The first two books, and the author's other series have won enough good will from me for that at least.ONE FINAL NOTE:I've only listened to the first two in audiobook format, this was the first one I read, so its possible the others were like this as well. There are a lot of sentence fragments, that when heard out-loud read almost like stream of counciousness, and I am sure sound fine. Reading it though was jarring. Much of the dialog was also formatted oddly. If a character was speaking a paragraph worth of text, the final sentence would often be set aside as a separate line of dialog. As such if you are not paying careful attention to if the closing quotations are there, it visually looks as if someone else is talking. This was only a minor inconvenience, but it was annoying.
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