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funny book very creative writing any teen or most adults would love it particularly if they are into super heroes


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Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain Richard Roberts 9781620074633 Books Reviews

I just now started reading Richard Roberts' Please Don't Tell My Parents... series, and I am kicking myself for having waited so long. The first book's been on my for years, and I'd low key ignored it because I had some notion it leaned more toward kids. And, yep, it's a YA read, except, it turns out, grown-ups can latch onto it, also. Me, I was feverishly swiping my pages. Bad Penny is a riot.

Maybe some plot spoilers.

Never mind that she's a 13-year-old middle-grader, Penelope Akk can hang at the same table with the likes of Reed Richards, Tony Stark, Forge, Doctor Dire, and Amelia Lockheart. One thing to differentiate Penny from those other mad inventors is that she's a legacy hero, offspring of widely-respected superhero parents, her super-brainy dad and her even more daunting, equally genius mom, The Audit. The Audit is so terrorizing a crimefighter that baddies usually just give up once they learn she's after them.

The book takes place in the Californian town of Los Feliz. As the story begins, Penny is impatiently waiting for her super-power to manifest so she could embark on her cape & cowl career. But when she does get her power, she's cautioned that it takes usually up to four years for her power to fully gestate and, ergo, that long before she could be a full-fledged superhero.

Except Penny proves the exception to the rule. And another rule of thumb her power spits on is that, as the armored hero, Mech, confides, "The first thing we invent is often our greatest creation." So, it looks as if Penny's power projects her as a practitioner of mad super-science. And, sure, the confounding recycling Machine is a flabbergasting first-time creation of Penny's, or as someone wrily says to her, "Your first doomsday machine is a malevolent, inscrutable wristwatch." But as we find out, there are at least two other inventions she concocts in short order that rival the Machine in ingenuity and flair and enigma.

My favorite mad tech she designs? I like so many of them, but I may have gotten the most giddy over the zombie rag dolls.

Penelope attends Northeast West Hollywood Middle School, academia that we increasingly suspect harbors a number of budding supers as its students. Penelope counts two of her classmates as her best friends, and when she gains her power, she ain't about to leave them behind. There's Penelope Akk, raring to launch her crimefighting career. But a mishap at the science fair and an ill-advised skirmish with a hero's sidekick later, and there's Penelope and her two minions (a.k.a. best friends) promptly labeled as the latest super-villains.

What a dang good read this is. I stayed up late and woke up early to finish it, and the almost 400 pages went by just like that (*snaps finger*). In a way, this reminded me of those movies, Sky High or Zoom, only tons better. The author has created a world that feels lived. There's a sense of a continuity and history that have already been established, that this world still goes on even when the author isn't writing about it.

I can't get enough of The Inscrutable Machine, which is what Penelope's team would be called eventually. I appreciate that while this is a YA read and has its share of ridiculous superhero tropes, the author plays it straight. He works in a serious treatment of the characters and what befalls them. I appreciate that the super-powered community - be they heroes or villains - don't take The Inscrutable Machine lightly. These kids may only be 13-year-olds, but they're dangerous 13-year-old super-villains.

I enjoyed their teamwork. It's refreshing that Penny's two friends, Claire and Ray, listen to her during combat - I'm so used to other super teams infighting and imploding - and that they're sensible enough to recognize when it's okay to strut around and indulge in kayfabe and when to beat feet. No wonder the adults take them seriously. There's a romantic triangle in the works, with Penny smitten with her friend with the British accent. Gratifyingly, it doesn't get in the way of the three kids' friendship nor does Penny allow her feelings to distract her when there's work to be done. Instead, it just sits there in the background, something for Penny to occasionally dust off and contemplate.

If I have to grouse, it's that I don't find it believable that Penny can keep her parents in the dark about her alter ego. These are experienced, genius superheroes living under the same roof as her. And Penelope's super-villain name is "Bad Penny," for cripes' sake!

I love everything else about this book. I grin at Penelope's dilemma. She aches so badly to be a do-gooder. But she's so good at villainy. I enjoyed the Inscrutable Machine's forays into the super-community. It's how we get a peek at the underpinnings of such a strange society and the unspoken agreements that govern behavior between heroes and villains.

I got a chuckle over what Penny had to say about the super-soldier serum "It's funny, because, you know, supervillains try to make this stuff all the time, but they keep trying to make soldiers." Penny's approach to the super-soldier serum? She opts for giving the recipient "better muscle tone and stuff." She dubs it the super cheerleader serum. Sounds silly, but it's how she was able to crew her team.

Is it weird that I found myself liking the baddies more so than the good guys? From Claire's mom, the once charming reformed villainess known as the Minx, to the daft Lucyfar, who may or may not be a demon from hell, to that has-been strongman, Bull. They seem way nicer than most of the heroes the Inscrutable Machine runs into.

I'm stoked that there are heaps of sequels to read about Penny and her "group of middle-school supervillains who've been crushing every adult in their way." I'm not so stoked that these sequels don't seem available on , forcing me to buy the paperback versions. It's just that, it's been so long since I had a papercut.
This book is a ripping good yarn with a solid female protagonist lead. There will be some spoilers in this review, so you may want to stop here if you haven't read it.

I would have liked to see the cute Claire get the physical powers and Ray get the cute emotional warping power to further escape stereotypes, but that is a minor quibble.

The more pressing problem with the book is that while I acknowledge the book is written for the YA audience, there are several inconsistencies that will continuously nag at you throughout the book if you are like me. To begin with all three of the main characters tread very close to the Mary Sue line. Ray is variously described at different points as having upper limit human abilities, but that varies wildly during the course of the book, as when he leaps 15 feet straight up from a stand still. He, as a previously unathletic and completely untrained combatant, is regularly able to easily overcome villians/heros who are also physically enhanced, highly trained, with years of experience under their belts.

Penny's power is the most interesting and the most 'believable', with her wacky gadgets that sometimes are effective, sometimes aren't, and often have drawbacks. The exceptions, of course, are her two super inventions, the Machine and Vera, which between them are able to counter any and every attack, seen or unseen, commanded to or not. And it also varies, When Penny is levitated by Marvelous, only her hand with the Machine is unaffected. When Marvelous puts Bad Penny to sleep with magic, the Machine cancels the spell. You would think that either only her hand wouldn't be under the spell, or the entire levitate spell would have ended.

Claire kind of gets left out of the book. She serves in the middle of the story mainly as the narrator explaining who the hero or villain that shows up is, and the remainder of the book as the off scene manager setting up jobs and contacts. She largely does nothing in the action scenes while Ray and Penny do all the fighting.

Personally, I didn't find super powered Ray very likable. He goes from being a quiet nice guy to actually being something of a bully and a cad.

Finally, The Inscrutable Machine mixes it up with some of the best heroes and villains around, and not only do they always win, they get no injury more serious than something that makes them say 'Ow' which feeds into the idea that they find super villainy fun and exciting rather than dangerous and scary.

The book is well worth the version price, and I've picked up the whole series to continue with. A really enjoyable and well-paced story is somewhat marred with some nagging inconsistencies and Mary Sue-ism.
Not a bad YA book, my 11 year old thinks its enjoyable.

From an adult standpoint It is rather repetitive and takes a long time to get anywhere. But it's an ok book for kids.

I do think the often very long segments detailing things in his fictional universe that don't really add much to the story could have been chopped. Do we really need to go into that much detail on Penny's favorite graphic novel series? Or all the ins and outs of how to play Teddy Bears and Chainsaws? But those are nit pick level complaints, and overall it's a decent book for kids.
When I started reading this book, I thought the premise was great fun. Girl has mad scientist brains for inventing weird but useful things? Lots of psudoscience? Sign me up!

The trouble is, her parents are the smartest superhero analysts in the world. Their power is figuring stuff out. And they never tumble to the fact that Penny is out doing super villain stuff. Like, never once do they notice her sneaking out of her room or getting strange letters. I know the chief issue with middle grade is keeping the parents out of the way, but come on.

Then there's the super villain stuff. Penny and her friends get into worse and worse trouble, and have just about zero consequences. I kept expecting this event to come back to bite them, or that event. Nope. Never happened. It made people LIKE them. It really bugged me that nothing came of the statue's guardian. I mean, really?

So, three stars. Fun to read, but frustrating by the end. If the idiot ball continues throughout the series, I won't be reading it.
funny book very creative writing any teen or most adults would love it particularly if they are into super heroes