Here’s Anna with her first villain boss in a temp assignment: I highlighted so much of this book I’m sure the file size is larger than when I started.

There are so many problems stacked against her, from the job market to the viability of her skill set, the imbalance of power assigned to heroes and villains and ordinary people, and the ways in which ordinary people pay for the actions of those powerful people, who in turn spare little to no thought about the larger consequences of their actions.Īnna is smart, and desperate, and I loved being in her head. The heroine is injured by a “hero” when the scene planned by the villain she temps for goes horribly wrong, and she starts using data analysis and damage projection to figure out exactly how much collateral damage and cost there is to the “heroes” doing their jobs.Īnna Tromedlov is angry. Hench is a fantasy novel about a data analyst who becomes a henchman for a super villain, in a world with “villains” and “heroes,” similar to The Incredibles, but set in the modern day. So here’s a very brief summary, courtesy of the email I sent to several people: This review took for-EV-er to write because I kept re-reading. Every time I emailed one person about it, I thought of three more people who would love it.įurther compounding my ridiculousness, my reading a September book in July also meant yet another mistake: I sat down to read over my notes and ended up re-reading massive portions of the book itself. Then I emailed people about it before they were able to buy it.

This is a September book! I read it in July! This is not my usual schedule. I had exactly none when it came to Hench. As I joke often, I’m here to enable everyone else’s poor impulse control, because I have so little of my own. Though this makes me an Unintentional Scourge Among Book Publicists, I try to read ARCs as close to release as possible so that I can talk about a book when that book is available to buy, borrow, or request. I made a number of mistakes regarding this book.įirst, I read it after I received the ARC, which was months prior to release date.

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