June, 2025: "Starter Villain" by John Scalzi
 | Author: John Scalzi |
| Genre: Science fiction, superhero science fiction | |
| Published: 2023 | |
| Pages: 243 | |
| Reading started: June 13th, 2025 | |
| Current progress: Page 76 of 243 (31.3%) | |
| Reading ended: N/A | |
| Effective reading time: 1 hour, 59 minutes (1 minute, 34 seconds per page) | |
| Number of sessions: 5 | |
| Average session reading time: 23 minutes, 58 seconds | |
| Average session review score: 4.5 of 5 | |
| Final review score: N/A |
Description
eBooks.com: Inheriting your uncle’s supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who’s running the place.
Charlie’s life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan.
Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie.
But becoming a supervillain isn’t all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and now they’re coming after Charlie. His uncle might have been a stand-up, old-fashioned kind of villain, but these are the real thing: rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital.
It’s up to Charlie to win the war his uncle started against a league of supervillains. But with unionized dolphins, hyper-intelligent talking spy cats, and a terrifying henchperson at his side, going bad is starting to look pretty good.
In a dog-eat-dog world… be a cat.
