There are a lot of things I like about this story and one that I don’t.

First of all, the story is funny. As in laugh out loud funny. That’s always appreciated.

Second, the characters feel real to me. I can imagine being around this collection of twenty and thirty-somethings. I’ve met people like them. The narrator, in particular is an amusing, drifting, part-time call center employee, part-time freelance writer with an engaging narrative voice.

Third . . . It’s fiction with a sense of place. I very much like that in a story. You get a feel of the Denver that the characters’ inhabit—a Denver of Starbucks, call centers, and people finding their way through young adulthood.

Fourth: It’s an interesting take on superheroes. Instead of following a superhero through their day to day life, you take a guy who’s a fan of superheroes and follow his day to day life—a large amount of which includes watching heroes on TV and even driving to the site of an on-going fight.

So on the whole, I’d say read it, but there’s one thing I’d like to point out . . . 

I think that it started before the beginning of the story. For me, a story begins at the point where the main character’s life begins to change. Ideally, the story begins just before that moment where they make the defining choice that sets everything moving. In this story (and I could be wrong about this), that moment appears to happen about ten or twelve chapters in.

They aren’t long chapters. In print, I might not even have thought this. In fact even online I might not have thought it if I weren’t reading with the intention of writing a review.

Still, it’s worth mentioning. That way if you do find yourself wondering if the story has a direction, don’t. It’s got one. It’s just not close enough to the beginning. Fortunately, you’ll find amusing things to distract you while waiting for it to appear.

As for myself, I’m likely to check in to find out where it goes from here.

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“Flyover City” is the fictional blog of Joel Wyatt, a typical technical support guy—except that he’s living in a universe where superheroes and villains are a fact of life.  There’s even an agency that recruits and supports the superheroes.  Joel and his friends spend their spare time speculating about superheroes instead of “Star Trek” or “Star Wars”.

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This story is told in blog format, and, true-to-blog format, the author tends to regularly go off on tangents. Sometimes these tangents begin in the middle of a sentence, which is where things get problematic. I found myself wondering what the point was of several different sub-sections of the story, which isn’t good for reader continuity.

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