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Almost Infamous
- A Supervillain Novel
- Narrated by: Nicholas Techosky
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Summary
Eighteen-year-old Aidan Salt isn't a superhero. With his powerful (and unpredictable) telekinetic abilities, he could be one if he wanted to, but he doesn't. He's unambitious, selfish, and cowardly, and he doesn't want to have to deal with all the paperwork required to become a professional superhero. But since the money, fame, and women that come with wearing the cape are appealing, he decides to become the first supervillain the world has seen in more than 20 years: Apex Strike.
However, he soon finds villainy in a world where the heroes have long since defeated all the supervillains. While half the world's heroes seem to want him dead, the other half want to hire him as their own personal villain to keep them relevant. Choosing the latter course, Aidan enters a world of fame, fortune, and staged superhero fights that is seemingly everything he ever dreamed of...at least until he sees what truly hides behind the cape-and-mask lifestyle.
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- PapaBear
- 20-06-22
An unexpected gem
A great take on the standard superhero tale - I will definitely look for more by this author.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-09-22
Cheesey but enjoyable
An enjoyable book, even if cheesey and at times uninspiring. Very good performance at points!
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- Aleksejs Skorodumovs
- 20-11-22
Weird but fun
It feels like you watched a fairly decent DC movie from a slightly darker dimension with alternative history. Not the best movie out there, not really that dark, not really that unique of a perspective, actually perhaps a bit teenage vanilla stuff, but you don't regret you watched it.
As a free book - that was fun, buying it - ahaha no.
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- Hannah D
- 04-08-22
it was ok
the story it's self was good but I just wanted to slap the main caricature, I suppose though you have to remember he is a teenager so his out look is different, but my god he was frustrating... the book was well read and the different voices given to the other characters brought them all to life ... I enjoyed it well enough but glad it was free .
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- Michael
- 31-05-23
really enjoyable
love the story, main characters and the premise, a truly enjoyable listen, looking forward to hearing more
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- Tess
- 21-11-23
Overall enjoyable
Fun, but not amazing, but a good distraction and got more compelling towards the end.
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- Bob
- 06-09-22
Not interesting
Nicholas Techosky did a decent performance with clear characters.
The story was just not engaging for me. A sort of supervillain version of The Apprentice where candidates compete for evil roles. Or possibly Strictly Come Dancing. There were even three judges and silly challenges.
Characters were rather bland.
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-03-22
Great listen
awesome book hope it's just 1 in series.
narrator does a good job too looking forward to more from the author.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-07-22
almost infamous, not one ill recommend
the story if you wish to call it that is based on more of historic dairy of the mc's path to becoming a super villan.
mush bits together then stretch a day out when action happens. this for me just fell short of what i expected.
the plus the narrator is pretty good.
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- Julie
- 12-01-23
Super hero's vs super villains
I did enjoy this book once the sex, drugs and parties ended. My one criticism is that for a group of acclaimed super villains they weren't very evil, well maybe one was and it took them a long time to rebel. I liked the idea if you can't make it as a hero then the only choice is become a villain with the story focused on that side of the fight, instead you got reality tv, where everything you see is fake and you actually like the bad guys more than the good guys. The story is more about friendship than world domination and epic battles. Don't get me wrong there were fights and I liked the characters. You saw the so called twist coming from a mile off and it was just a case of who would make it through to the end. I think I would like another book in this series, just more action and less teenage hormones but I guess it's building up the hero's sorry villains origin story.
Aidan is fed up of being in the shadows, the guy nobody knows, so when he starts to develop powers he decided the only way to make a name for himself is by becoming a supervilain. When his first job goes horribly wrong he is given a choice. Go to the tower and spend the rest of his life in a tube or right for his place on a super villain team. The hero's need villains to fight and have decided to run a competition to see who has what it takes to become there arch nemesis. Can Aidan make it to The last eight or will be get cut from the team?
I liked the narrator. He used a number of voices to bring the characters personalities to life and bring a voice to super villains.
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