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Super Sales on Super Heroes Books 1-3 by William D. Arand Review (Book Review, 2017-2019)
Felix lives in a world where superpowers are common. He has powers, too, but they’re pretty terrible. He can pull up a DnD character sheet for anything he owns and upgrade traits with a limited supply of points. Where he lives (Skipper City), superheroes are illegal and supervillains run everything. Slavery is also legal. While trying to buy a supply of lead bricks to turn into gold, Felix accidentally buys an auction of three nearly-dead superheroes. Suddenly, his point totals are exponentially higher than ever before, high enough to bring the heroes back from the brink of death. Felix has a new business idea now: buying superheroes at auction to work in a pawn shop, where he can purchase junk and upgrade it to incredibly valuable antiques.
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood Review (Novel, 2019)
The Testaments, the long-awaited but never-expected sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, is an intentionally problematic text. Atwood is expanding the world of Gilead with three very different perspectives from the powerless Offred in the original novel. The three characters tell their own stories of what it’s like to be a child in Gilead, a teenager outside of Gilead, and an Aunt after Offred’s story is long over. They are contemporaries of each other, but strangers for most of the book.