The Prospects

Disclosure: I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This just wasn't a good book. The idea wasn't bad, but the execution was poor. Superhero books are hard to write in today's world where so many other superhero stories exist. The characters the new story presents can make or break the story and in this case, they broke it. So many of the superheros presented in this book were near duplicates of famous comic book superheroes, but with different names. And the names were bad! I simply could not take the book seriously with superheros with names like Idea Man. There was a clone of Captain America called Sgt. Hammer. There was a clone of Iron Man. Some of the bad guys were cyborg pirates that reminded me a lot of the Borg from Star Trek.

All in all, so many elements from this book seemed borrowed from other stories that it became distracting. Add that to the ridiculously silly names the superheroes/villains had, coupled with a mediocre storyline centered around rape (seriously), and you don't end up with a good book. I love superhero stories, but I can't recommend this one.