Happy Friday everybody!
The Friday 56 is currently on hiatus but many of us are still including them.
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This week I am spotlighting Starter Villain by John Scalzi. This story is a recent addition to my TBR mountain. Here is the description for Amazon:
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I learned about the death of my uncle Jake in a deeply unexpected way, which was from the CNBC Squawk Box morning show.Friday 56:
The inside was dim from shaded windows and the lack of artificial lighting. The furniture was sparse, and the walls were festooned with cat stairs and cubbyholes. Whoever lived here was clearly much more involved with their cats than I ever was. Maybe a little too involved.
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.
I've had my eye on this book. I hope you enjoy it!
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