Soon I Will Be Invincible

by Austin Grossman

Doctor Impossible - evil genius, mad scientist, diabolical time-traveller, wannabe world dominator - has just broken out of prison. Again. After twelve foiled ploys (doomsday devices, mass mind-control, robot armies, insect armies, alien invasions, etc.), he's not about to be foiled again.

Fatale, a patchwork woman of skin and alloy built by the NSA to be the next generation of warfare, is suddenly given the chance every superhero dreams of: to join the Champions, the once-famous group of beautiful young superheroes who have been newly reunited to stop Dr Impossible. We watch as Fatale becomes part of a team - its greatest hero missing, its members struggling with their damaged pasts as they come together in the face of unthinkable evil.

Soon I Will Be Invincible is a wildly entertaining adventure about good and evil, bursting with attitude and humour, that features a cast of superheroes and supervillains with remarkably human emotions, and who inhabit a world strangely similar to our own . . .

• ISBN10: 0375424865
• ISBN13: 9780375424861
• Publish Date: 5 June 2007 (first published 1 January 2007)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Pantheon Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 287
• Language: English

Reviews

[empressbrooke]

This one was fun, but it had its weaknesses. The narrative goes back and forth between Doctor Impossible, a super villain, and Fatale, the newest member of a superhero group. The Doctor Impossible chapters were an interesting look into the mind of an evil scientist, but Fatale's chapters felt a little too much like wish-fulfillment YA fanfic. I also thought that there were far too many flashbacks and exposition about the history of the characters, and I would have rather seen more action taking place in the present.

But like I said, it was fun, and it goes by very quickly. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for something light and enjoyable.