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The Secrets of Supervillainy
- The Supervillainy Saga, Book 3
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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Merciless, the Supervillain without Mercy (TM), is back with even bigger problems! How far will he go to fix his wife's current state of being a soulless vampire? Can he ignore his growing feelings for Cindy, despite their difference over the new Star Wars movie? Can he survive the wrath of the president of the United States (whom he accidentally stole billions from)?
While he ponders those personal issues, Death has a new mission for him. The greatest hero on Earth has killed, and she isn't pleased. Death wants the murder solved and the perpetrator given the kind of justice only the Avatar of Death can dish out. Unfortunately for Gary, that's only the tip of the psychotic iceberg.
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- AGGELOS IOAKIMIDES
- 14-09-20
Exhausting action scrumptious puns
Tasty cultural reference hunt and the lack of one star from the story was the tiresome emotional roller coasters. Great fun. Tho and heartwarming stories.
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- Iain S
- 28-06-22
Another crazed and wonderful outing from my favourite Superhero..villain… whatever!
No one - no one - writes pop culture superhero snark like Phipps. It’s official. If he existed in Gary’s crazed alternate universe (where I wanna live, I wanna liiiiiiive!! 😫), Mr Phipps would be the most dastardly villain, or else most awesome hero of them all - The Writer. Gary would find that all his exploits, emotional turmoil, suffering & struggles, have been the result of this nefarious fiend and his Fifteenth-Dimensional Brain™️, which allows him to tap into every trope in existence, and shoehorn all those Easter eggs and pop culture references in, in a way that would shock and awe even the glorious much-missed Sir Terry Pratchett (whose Death Gary’s Death might appear as, for me, Christopher Lee voice, and all).
That’s how much I have grown to love these novels, as I have burned my way through them, one after the other. His sense of snark is as offbeat as anything seen in Deadpool movies, and a whole lot more entertaining, besides. Seriously, Ryan, hire this guy, already!
I first discovered Mr Phipps with the wonderful WereDeer audiobooks, and so took a gamble that these would be as good. You know what? They’re better. I now own all his audiobooks, except the latest Supervillainy outing, and that wil change, when I reach that point in the ongoing storyline.
For a Golden Age fan, like me, who was born in the sixties, found Marvel and D.C., aged 5, 2000AD aged eight (loved the “gritty and dark British comic book writers” reference, in this one), and have never stopped buying and reading them, as I add to my libraries (real and virtual; written and spoken), these books are the best. I mean it. The. Best. Exclamation marks, dammit!
I can’t wait to see what happens next. So I’m off.
Oh, and Mr Kafer is PERFECT for our hero. Villain. Villainous hero. Heroic villain. Oh, who am I kidding! Merciless is the most honourbound, decent and committed superbeing I have encountered in aeons! And I love his relationship with Death (I’m sensing there’s more reveals to come - my mystical powers of the utterly obvious are truly extraordinarily awe-inspiring!)
Fantastic outing, folks. This is what entertainment is all about. Escapism. Oh, and if Mr Phipps reads this - I trademarked The Writer! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA! (as I hear a tiny “Noooooo, dammmmn yoooooooouuuuu!” echoing back down the timelines, toward me).
Ten stars out of Five.
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- C. PEART
- 17-08-16
better than meh
Although I am enjoying this series, the characters are great and the previous stories have been great, this one seemed a bit ...thin.
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- Julie
- 23-09-20
Supervillainy is so entertaining
I enjoyed this book. This is book three in the series and as all the books follow on from each other you need to be prepared to get the whole series and listen to them in the right order, I have, but I haven't been disappointed yet. The books are full of action, with good guys taking on the bad guys...well okay it's not that black and white. I like the fact that with this series anything can happen and usually does and not always what you are expecting. The characters are interesting and with cool names it is easy to get swept up in the fantasy world. The humour is just a bonus. Off to start the next book as it left the last one on a bit of a cliff hanger.
Gary aka Merciless saved the city from being destroyed, despite being a super villain but he was unable to save the love of his life, his wife. Unable to let her go just how far will he and his team of super villains go to get her back? He also has other problems such as the president wants him dead and has taken out a hit on him. Oh and someone killed the greatest super hero to have ever walked the planet, Ultra God and replaced him with a robot. Death and the hero's daughter, um Gary's ex girlfriend, want Gary's help to find out who killed him and to put a stop to what ever plan they have cooked up now. Is the hit and the death of Ultra God connected? It's hard to be a villain when you have to keep saving the city so that you can destroy it.
I like the narrator and have listened to a few books read by him and have enjoyed them every time. He is a master at his work and has the perfect timing to deliver the punch line.
I was given this free review copy Audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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- Ho-Man Yau
- 31-08-16
to be continued, oh come on
excellent storytelling, fun and witty, but when I was just getting into the story it didn't finished and had to be continued.
I just hate it when that happens which means I have to wait until the next book comes out.
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- Harry Arthur
- 25-08-20
Pretty good, but in danger of becoming stale
The saga of Gary Karkofsky continues however, unlike the first two books, this one almost slipped by me. It was six hours long but felt like very little happened. It actually felt like this book had been written as a filler between two more important books. Perhaps once I have listened to the next book I can come back and revise this.
There are the usual characters, the plot twists and crazy story lines - just as we have come to expect. All in all, a good book and a good continuation to the series. It does end on a cliff-hanger of sorts.
I received a free copy of this book and chose to write a review
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- Mike
- 28-07-16
weakest of the 3
mildly entertaining but fizzled out towards the end - not sure I'd bother with the next installment
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- BLT
- 02-08-16
Seemed off.
Spoiler alert. The first two books set things different to what was delivered, perhaps something changed in the authors life, but a readjustment in the protagonists love life was the result. It made the whole story just seem like I had missed something. The story itself I wasn't sure if there was any movement either, it was packed full of pop culture references from the last two years, but over all it just felt off. Wrong in a morbid way, it literally went from book one. I love mandy, I still love ultra goddess to book two re confirming this, and even mandy and ultra goddess to accepting one another to book three I love mandy, I hate the mandy that I have and I love Cindy. Ultra goddess is okay I suppose.
I know its not painted to be a great love story, but in a world where super powers exist you at least want to believe that love was there. Sadly it was missing.
I will buy and read the next installment, just in the hopes that phipps recovers what's left. Lets not talk about the other character progress, powers developed and story as it was explained like a kids explanation of why they thought filling a swimming pool with petrol and having a firework party was a good idea.
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