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Strike two: I am screamingly jealous of the author and can be a hyper-critical lit snob when confronted with someone more successful than myself in the publishing world.

So I assumed I'd have to trudge through this and say some obligatory nice things I didn't mean. Luckily, that wasn't the case at all. I got drawn into it immediately and just kept turning the pages. Sure, I was still hyper-critical. (Using "large" as an adjective twice in the same sentence?! Scoff!) But the narrator was lovably complex, the plot was engaging and it didn't contain any of the romance novel cliches I expected. A.J. obviously loves superheroes, gets how they work and isn't posing or trying to shoehorn in some popular fad of the moment to a story she'd rather be telling.

Congrats. Now bring on Tekgrrl!]]>