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Andromeda Snow, Superhero
Andromeda Snow wakes up from a two-year coma to find that her fiancé is marrying her sister, she's paralyzed from the neck down, and she's got superpowers.
The world has changed while she was sleeping, and she finds herself assigned to a super team, fighting supervillains and picking up the pieces of her life. Oh, and one of her new teammates is a world famous tennis player/actor who's been named sexiest man alive at least three times, and he wants to be her date to her sister's wedding.
Overall, it's a lot. But Andromeda's a superhero now, and that's pretty cool.
The world has changed while she was sleeping, and she finds herself assigned to a super team, fighting supervillains and picking up the pieces of her life. Oh, and one of her new teammates is a world famous tennis player/actor who's been named sexiest man alive at least three times, and he wants to be her date to her sister's wedding.
Overall, it's a lot. But Andromeda's a superhero now, and that's pretty cool.
76 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 2021
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About the author
Jamie Lackey
113 books62 followersJamie Lackey lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and their cat. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in 2006 with a degree in Creative Writing. She studied under James Gunn at the Center for the Study of Science Fiction's Writer's Workshop in 2010 and has taken various workshops with Cat Rambo. She primarily writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories.
She has over 200 short fiction credits, and has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and the Stoker Award-winning After Death.... Her fiction has appeared on the Best Horror of the Year Honorable Mention and Tangent Online Recommended Reading Lists, and she's a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Her flash fiction collection, One Revolution, and her zombie novella, Moving Forward: A Novella of Life After Zombies, are available on Amazon.com. Her debut novel, Left Hand Gods, is available from Hadley Rille Books. She also has two short story collections available from Air and Nothingness Press.
She read submissions for the Hugo-winning Clarkesworld Magazine for five years and was an assistant editor for the Hugo-winning Electric Velocipede from 2012-2013. She served as editor for Triangulation: Lost Voices in 2015 and Triangulation: Beneath the Surface in 2016.
She enjoys reading, writing, tabletop role playing games, video games, baking, and hiking. Learn more about her at her website, www.jamielackey.com
She has over 200 short fiction credits, and has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and the Stoker Award-winning After Death.... Her fiction has appeared on the Best Horror of the Year Honorable Mention and Tangent Online Recommended Reading Lists, and she's a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Her flash fiction collection, One Revolution, and her zombie novella, Moving Forward: A Novella of Life After Zombies, are available on Amazon.com. Her debut novel, Left Hand Gods, is available from Hadley Rille Books. She also has two short story collections available from Air and Nothingness Press.
She read submissions for the Hugo-winning Clarkesworld Magazine for five years and was an assistant editor for the Hugo-winning Electric Velocipede from 2012-2013. She served as editor for Triangulation: Lost Voices in 2015 and Triangulation: Beneath the Surface in 2016.
She enjoys reading, writing, tabletop role playing games, video games, baking, and hiking. Learn more about her at her website, www.jamielackey.com
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October 3, 2021
I’m the first to rate and review this one, so…wish I liked it more, had more praises to sing here, but this one doesn’t really merit all that. And here’s why…
My first experience reading Lackey was with her short stories. I enjoyed those and continued to grab her books whenever they popped up on Netgalley, but each subsequent read was more disappointing than the last and this novella was no exception.
Not terrible reads by any means, just less and less…interesting, exciting, etc. More of a catered pop fiction thing going on, especially here with this tale of a woman who gets into a car crash and wakes up two years later from a coma to discover she now has telekinesis. And she isn’t the only superpowered individual around either. There’s an entire team, led by the devilishly handsome former athlete/movie star primed to become the love interest.
I love superhero stories, especially of the unconventional variety, but this worked every formula and was just too cutesy (toned down? dumbed down? PGed?) for its own good. Easy breezy, girly, ditsy charm that might work for some readers, but didn’t really wow this one.
Lackey sponsors her books by kickstarter, so maybe she caters directly to her fans and maybe that’s exactly what they wanted and that’s all totally fine, but frankly it’s too commercial of a concept and execution. Unless you’ve been looking around for a superpowered romcom that’s tots adorbs. But really, superheroes and chicklit shouldn't mix, the checklist wins out, it's the more pungent of flavors.
Mindless, thoroughly mindless, but perfectly readable and does go by very quickly. Thanks Netgalley.
My first experience reading Lackey was with her short stories. I enjoyed those and continued to grab her books whenever they popped up on Netgalley, but each subsequent read was more disappointing than the last and this novella was no exception.
Not terrible reads by any means, just less and less…interesting, exciting, etc. More of a catered pop fiction thing going on, especially here with this tale of a woman who gets into a car crash and wakes up two years later from a coma to discover she now has telekinesis. And she isn’t the only superpowered individual around either. There’s an entire team, led by the devilishly handsome former athlete/movie star primed to become the love interest.
I love superhero stories, especially of the unconventional variety, but this worked every formula and was just too cutesy (toned down? dumbed down? PGed?) for its own good. Easy breezy, girly, ditsy charm that might work for some readers, but didn’t really wow this one.
Lackey sponsors her books by kickstarter, so maybe she caters directly to her fans and maybe that’s exactly what they wanted and that’s all totally fine, but frankly it’s too commercial of a concept and execution. Unless you’ve been looking around for a superpowered romcom that’s tots adorbs. But really, superheroes and chicklit shouldn't mix, the checklist wins out, it's the more pungent of flavors.
Mindless, thoroughly mindless, but perfectly readable and does go by very quickly. Thanks Netgalley.
October 3, 2021
Sadly, with a few notable exceptions, supers books are not that great. This one was better than average for the genre, but that's a low bar to clear.
Part of the trouble, I think, was that it's a novella, and really needed to be a novel so that the plot could be less linear and the characters more developed. It features a team of six supers, but only three of them get any depth at all.
The protagonist, a woman who has just woken up from a two-year coma to discover that she's quadriplegic but also telekinetic (so she can move her body, she just can't feel anything), has a backstory, but it's pretty generic, and I didn't feel like I really got to know what her past life was like. She deals remarkably well with the considerable emotional challenges she's presented with, which is good. She's completely incurious about what happened while she was in the coma that resulted in people suddenly gaining superpowers, and we never find out, which means the author doesn't have to come up with an explanation.
Her love interest, the team leader, a former sports star and movie actor, has some unexpected aspects to him that change how we see him in the course of the book. That's also good, but I did feel like he still needed more development to take him all the way into three dimensions.
The third team member who spends significant time onscreen has a minimal backstory, and is mainly there to be someone for the protagonist to talk to.
And then there's the villain, who has a cliched motivation and a plan taken straight out of the movie Zootopia.
I had a review copy of this book from Netgalley, so I won't comment on the copy editing except to say that it needs someone with a keen eye to spot missed-out words in sentences and a couple of homonym errors - hopefully that will happen before publication.
Overall, it had some potential, but that potential needed quite a bit more work in order to be realized. I picked it up because the premise was a bit out of the ordinary, but the execution didn't measure up to my expectations.
Part of the trouble, I think, was that it's a novella, and really needed to be a novel so that the plot could be less linear and the characters more developed. It features a team of six supers, but only three of them get any depth at all.
The protagonist, a woman who has just woken up from a two-year coma to discover that she's quadriplegic but also telekinetic (so she can move her body, she just can't feel anything), has a backstory, but it's pretty generic, and I didn't feel like I really got to know what her past life was like. She deals remarkably well with the considerable emotional challenges she's presented with, which is good. She's completely incurious about what happened while she was in the coma that resulted in people suddenly gaining superpowers, and we never find out, which means the author doesn't have to come up with an explanation.
Her love interest, the team leader, a former sports star and movie actor, has some unexpected aspects to him that change how we see him in the course of the book. That's also good, but I did feel like he still needed more development to take him all the way into three dimensions.
The third team member who spends significant time onscreen has a minimal backstory, and is mainly there to be someone for the protagonist to talk to.
And then there's the villain, who has a cliched motivation and a plan taken straight out of the movie Zootopia.
I had a review copy of this book from Netgalley, so I won't comment on the copy editing except to say that it needs someone with a keen eye to spot missed-out words in sentences and a couple of homonym errors - hopefully that will happen before publication.
Overall, it had some potential, but that potential needed quite a bit more work in order to be realized. I picked it up because the premise was a bit out of the ordinary, but the execution didn't measure up to my expectations.
December 10, 2021
Jamie Lackey introduces us to Andromeda Snow, Superhero (self published ebook) Who had been paralyzed and in a coma from a car wrecwhen superheroes suddenly. When she awakes she has enough telekenic power to not only more her unresponsive body, but also lift cars. This first tale is more about facing the problems with being paralyzed and losing two years, than actual superheroics. For instance her main problem at first is attending the wedding of her sister and her ex-fiancé There is a supervillain involved. I’d like to see more.Review printed by Philadelphia Free Press
February 13, 2022
Lackey’s killer sense of humor shines in a book that ironically is all about pain. Exploring both physical and mental discomfort, this sharp tale encourages creating your own family and daring to trust others with your heart, especially when things seem their darkest.
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