Book review: Karma Girl by Jennifer Estep
Carmen Cole is a character after my own
heart. It seems I have a knack for picking up books where the main
character is a reporter. I live that life. I get it. I know what it's
like to go through the ups and downs of reporting.
In Karma Girl (Book 1 of the Bigtime Superheroes series) written by Jennifer
Estep, Carmen Cole is an investigative reporter whose sole mission is
to uncover as many superheroes and ubervillians and she possibly
could. But it didn't always start that way. Cole became obsesses with
this mission on her wedding day when she discovered her fiance and
best friend in bed together. To make it worse, they were the town of
Beginnings superhero and ubervillian.
Cole had her revenge by pasting their
photos on the front of the local paper. She worked her way to bigger
newspapers doing the same thing until she found herself in Bigtime,
one of the biggest cities in the country with the deadliest
ubervillians and hunkiest superheroes.
If it sounds a little goofy, that's
because it is, but not in a bad way.
Estep has a good time with the book
poking fun at old comics and superhero stories: everyone has the same
initials as their first and last names, bombs use an agent called
Explodium and radioactivity can be good for you.
The good guys want to save the world
while the bad guys want to rule it.
Some of the reviews I read about Karma
Girl called it predictable at times, which it might be as well. But,
again, it's not something that bothered me.
I wasn't surprised when the big reveals
occurred because I figured them out on my own, however, I did like
getting confirmation on what I already thought.
Estep does a great job with
description. She puts the characters in rooms and allows readers to
fully see everything with their imagination.
I also enjoyed the Cole's inner
dialogue. Estep writes it in a way that many women can relate to. She
feels frustrations, anger, remorse, lust. All the things we probably
go through in a 24-hour span.
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