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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7880272" data-attributes="member: 20564">Just finished Repercussions, book 8(-ish) in the Wearing the Cape series by Marion G. Harmon. While Superhero is not my normal genre*, these books are a pleasure. The early ones did a good amount of deconstruction of what it meant to be a superhero and what it meant to the average person, and some of the supplimental stuff at the back of this added to that. After the diversion of Team-Ups and Crossovers, which was about Hope's growth, and Recursion, this is firmly back in the prime world line and boy does it run with it. Dresden Files level of changes and escalation happening in the world. Well done, and pretty action packed. I recommend it.* The only other superhero book I read in 2019 was Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours by Jim Butcher.  (See, my Dresden Files reference above was not out of left field.)  While I was not familiar with the comic villain that this built from, it did a great job of introducing them and was well written.  I can't compare it to other Spidey novels - I haven't read any - but it was quite enjoyable.  Butcher does well writing snarky, quick witted characters with a bit of an offbeat sense of humor.I'm currently reading Homeland for the first time.  It's the first Drizzt book chronologically (though I understand a trilogy was written before this that had him).  Was never really on my reading list.</blockquote>