Hero Complex
Sean O’Hara
394 pages
published in 2014
Whether or not you’ll like Hero Complex can probably be determined by whether not the following passage intrigues or annoys you:
Ryder leaps onto the wall of an apartment building and runs straight up the side. She’s almost to the eaves when she jumps again, this time somersaulting high into the air, coming to apogee several yards above the monster. She flings her arms apart and the night is illuminated by stroboscopic beams from her—I’m not seeing that right. There’s no way she’s shooting lasers from her boobs.
“Of course not. That would be ridiculous,” Jensen says.
I thought as much, but given how many ridiculous things have occurred lately, I wanted to be sure.
Ryder snags a tree branch with an outstretched hand like it’s a trapeze and flips herself around.
“Everyone knows laser beams are invisible in clear air. Those are charged particle cannons,” Jensen says.