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Karma Girl

di Jennifer Estep

Serie: Bigtime (1)

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Fantasy. Fiction. Romance. HTML:

Investigative reporter Carmen Cole gets the surprise of her life on her wedding day when she discovers that her fiancé and best friend are sleeping togetherâ??and that the two of them are her town's resident superhero and ubervillain. Shocked and hurt, Carmen reveals their secret identities and then decides to devote her life to unmasking every superhero and ubervillain who crosses her path.

A series of successful unmaskings lands Carmen a job at The Exposé, one of the biggest newspapers in Bigtime, New York, a city that's full of superheroes and ubervillains. Carmen is in her elementâ??until she gets kidnapped by the Terrible Triad, Bigtime's most dangerous ubervillain team.

The Triad orders Carmen to uncover the secret identity of Striker, the leader of the Fearless Five, Bigtime's most popular superhero teamâ??or else they'll drop her in a vat of radioactive goo. With that threat hanging over her, Carmen sets out to unmask Striker, but what she doesn't count on is falling for the sexy superhero. But with the Terrible Triad lurking around, this is one story that just might be the death of… (altro)

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    After the Golden Age di Carrie Vaughn (wisemetis)
    wisemetis: Both are superhero books told from the POV of someone who is powerless.
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I have wanted to read this author for years and I was thrilled with Carmen's wacky story! ( )
  HOTCHA | Jan 21, 2023 |
Charming and funny, but not much depth. Reads like a comic book, but isn't as successful. I'll read the rest of the series, since I bought the set when it was on sale, but it isn't going to be a priority. ( )
  wonderlande | Jan 1, 2023 |
January 12, 2009 review:
This was such fun! If you're a superhero fan, you'll love this tongue-in-cheek homage/satire of the superhero genre. You have your girl reporter (Carmen) who has made it her life's work to unmask the superheroes and ubervillians that inhabit the world after discovering her fiance in bed with her best friend on her wedding day... and that they were hero and nemesis. I laughed my way through the story and will definitely be picking up the next one.

11/29/11:
I re-read this again after reading A Karma Girl Christmas and remembering how much I loved this series. There is something wonderful about re-reading a book you loved the first time around, a few years later. The plot points have gotten fuzzy so it's almost like reading it for the first time, with the added deliciousness of nostalgia. Love this.

1/23/14:
I've been recommending this series like whoa to people. A friend mentioned she had been reading them based on my recommendation, and I got the hankering to revisit Bigtime.

As always, I fell headfirst into the campy, fun, and totally tongue-in-cheek world Estep created. I had read some of her Elemental Assassin books, and had been less than impressed. So I am a bit baffled after re-reading this book that the flaws in the Elemental Assassin series aren't really present here. There was no annoying repetition, and very little info dumps. If I hadn't known better I would have said the Spider books were her earlier books. ( )
  wisemetis | Dec 24, 2022 |
The author uses superhero/comic cliches as deliberate and effective narrative shortcuts. You know alliterative names mean something, you know if it glows it can do things that only happen in comics, and so on. Beyond that there was enough complexity and good characters that it was fun, entertaining. I wanted to give it four stars because all told, it's a fun take on such worlds. The descriptions around her transformation were Great!

Alas for me, the story fell short in the one place a romance can't - I was only told about their attraction, I didn't feel it much. And, worse, the main character does a stupid thing regarding her love interest More Than Once.

This is the first in a series, and I hope the author did better in subsequent books. But in this one, an editor should have demanded more. More feeling, more intelligence. Sigh. ( )
  terriaminute | Dec 4, 2022 |
Flat characters and a not particularly interesting plot. Couldn't get past chapter three. ( )
  tsmom1219 | Feb 24, 2022 |
Reviewed by Jen
Book provided by the publisher for review
Review originally posted at Romancing the Book

Back in November, Jennifer Estep visited the blog (click here to go to the post) to tell us about the last book in her Bigtime series. After that visit, I decided to get a copy of the first book, Karma Girl. Since Jennifer will be back with us this coming week to talk about Spider’s Bite, the first book in her new series, I thought I’d read and review Karma Girl for you.

Carmen Cole is getting married. Yet on her wedding day, she feels something is terribly wrong, so she goes to talk to her husband-to-be. But she’s in for the shock of her life when she not only discovers her best friend and fiancee’ in flagrante delicto, but also that he is a superhero and she is his arch nemesis. Carmen uses her career as a reporter to unmask the two and begins a crusade to expose the identities of other caped crusaders and their arch enemies. Her exposes earn her a job at one of the largest newspapers and her assignment is to discover the identities of the Fearless Five and Terrible Triad. But when she reports on the identity of one of the town’s most beloved superheros, her world comes crashing down around her…

I was hooked on the story from the first pages. I loved the concept that Jennifer created; it was my first superhero romance (yes, there is romance). And I’m eagerly anticipating getting my hands on copies of Hot Mama and Jinx. In fact, I enjoyed this story so much, I recommended it to my sister when I was only halfway through it.

I’ll admit that I figured out the secret identities of all the characters that were revealed before Carmen. But it didn’t diminish my fascination of where the story was going. There are a few twists and turns along the road and more laugh out loud moments than I could count. Karma Girl is a page turner from beginning to end.
aggiunto da RtB | modificaRomancing the Book, Jen (Feb 10, 2010)
 

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To my mom. Thanks for taking me to the library all those Saturdays. You've given me more than you will ever know.

And to my grandma. Thanks for just being you and for making the best fried chicken and biscuits in the world.

I love you both more than words can say.
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Fantasy. Fiction. Romance. HTML:

Investigative reporter Carmen Cole gets the surprise of her life on her wedding day when she discovers that her fiancé and best friend are sleeping togetherâ??and that the two of them are her town's resident superhero and ubervillain. Shocked and hurt, Carmen reveals their secret identities and then decides to devote her life to unmasking every superhero and ubervillain who crosses her path.

A series of successful unmaskings lands Carmen a job at The Exposé, one of the biggest newspapers in Bigtime, New York, a city that's full of superheroes and ubervillains. Carmen is in her elementâ??until she gets kidnapped by the Terrible Triad, Bigtime's most dangerous ubervillain team.

The Triad orders Carmen to uncover the secret identity of Striker, the leader of the Fearless Five, Bigtime's most popular superhero teamâ??or else they'll drop her in a vat of radioactive goo. With that threat hanging over her, Carmen sets out to unmask Striker, but what she doesn't count on is falling for the sexy superhero. But with the Terrible Triad lurking around, this is one story that just might be the death of

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