reading notes

by Andrew Kaufman
ISBN: 1552451305

Let’s get this out of the way first: Batman and Superman aren’t in this book. No Wonder Woman or Spiderman — no superheroes you’ve ever heard of before.

Which might explain why you wouldn’t have realized superheroes are everywhere, living among regular folk like Tom. This is a story about Tom’s superhero friends, like The Amphibian. Well, really it’s a love story, because Tom marries one of the superheroes: The Perfectionist. Only she is hypnotized on their wedding day by yet another superhero — making Tom invisible to her. And if he doesn’t figure out how to become visible to her by the end of her cross-country plane ride…

Kaufman’s book is cute and romantic, a good read for a short to medium flight (I read it at the airport) as it is more novella than novel. Recommended if you like quirky stories or have an affinity for nonstandard superheroes.

This entry was posted on Saturday, June 30th, 2007 at 10:37 pm and is filed under fiction.