"Playing For Keeps" Superhero Novel/Podcast

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I just started listening to Playing For Keeps. It's a pretty well written audio book and hey, it's free.

"Podcaster and author Mur Lafferty launches her first full length novel today. 'It tells the story of Keepsie Branson, a bar owner in the shining metropolis of Seventh City: birthplace of super powers. Keepsie and her friends live among egotistical heroes and manipulative villains, and manage to fall directly in the middle as people with powers, but who just aren't strong enough to make a difference. Or that's what they've been told. As the city begins to melt down, it's hard to tell who are the good guys and who are the bad.'

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Bump. I'm 2/3rds of the way through this 15 episode free audiobook and I think it's really good. There's 3 kinds of super powered beings--the 1st wave heroes who seem to run the city and are not so nice, the villains who seem like sympathetic insurgents but may be truly evil, and the protagonists who are people with not very powerful super powers (the power to never be stolen from, the power to learn facts about people by smelling them, the power to shoot sewage out of your hands, the power to remove your leg), 3rd Wavers, who are not licensed by the authorities to be super heroes. One of the best parts is how the under-powered heroes turn their lame powers into surprising strengths. It's funny and serious and exciting. Thumbs up!