Save State Hero

Save State Hero, Book 1

De: William D. Arand

Narrado por: Stephanie Savannah

Have you ever woken up, rolled over, and thought to yourself, “I’m pretty sure I’m working for a Super Villain.”

If you haven’t, then maybe you’re not the type of person to work for a global corporation.

Edmund, however, is just such an individual.

He works for Legion: a corporation of unimaginable reach that he barely understands, a corporation that seems determined to put itself smack dab in the middle of a brewing civil war between Super Heroes and Super Villains.

That doesn’t even take into account the fact that the governments of the world don’t seem to be taking too keenly to Legion, either.

All of that is mostly irrelevant to Edmund, though. He works for the company and does all he can to make sure they succeed.

From cleaning up after a bad operation and disposing of bodies to providing hush money, getting rid of agents from opposing intelligence communities, or just helping an informant escape from a Super Villain, Edmund has done it all in this line of work.

That doesn’t fill up the entirety of his life, however.

The rest of it is trying to get a date with the woman he likes and looking out for his little sister while hiding the fact he himself has a superpower.

A superpower that lets him save and load the world whenever he likes as if it were a video game and subject to his personal whims.

At least, that’s what he thought in the beginning.

©2023 William D. Arand (P)2023 Podium Audio

very interesting

This reminds me very much of Quicksave from the book series The Perfect Run, which is also a good book so this is a compliment. It's interesting to think about the possibilities and how far back this goes and intertwines into the story. good if you're caught up with the current series interested to see how it ties into the other aligning book series

Challenging read, but fun

It was a little difficult to keep track of where or rather when things were, as I usually only listen to it on my drive to and from work. A fun spinoff.

confused

I did like it because it picks up some of Super Save. Weird shit like a lot but not. I did enjoy it

Another great book by William d Arand

I really enjoyed this new story and the main character is really fun. Stephanie Savannah does a great job narrating

dull mediocrity

a new low for the author. I had to give up on listening 4 ours into the book, as I could nor come up with a single reason to continue spending my time on this book instead of something else.

Had Potential to be better

There was potential for this to be better than it was, but it felt like the author lost interest, and wanted to wrap this up.

Mid and released out of order

I will admit I have a bit of a grudge with this book. Why? It spoils Super Sale on Super Heroes 5 quite a bit. This should have been released after that book as half the book I was playing mental catch up as to what was going on with characters I actually cared about. Then there is the pesky plot hole of, doesn't this story take place in the same world as Retribution, incubus inc, and Swing Shift? Mean we already saw Felix reunite with those missing in Swing Shift 3 where it is implied a lot happened.

But onto the book itself. The Mc is far too passive and I just can't bring myself to like the guy. There just was never that much tension and given half his time is opining about his pining for a girl that friendzoned him. Look I get that relationships like theirs happen in real life, but for me to care the girl needs to appear more often than a handful of times and be more than a cooky cutter peppy happy girl. This is especially true when every other female side character is more interesting and likeable and to be blunt seem to be better fits. In other words those other side girls actually help make Edmund's life better where as the girl he wants does not. Add to this the disconnect due to the release being out of order and I'm left disconnected and worse disinterested. Which is really really bad given how much this book relies on the rest of the franchise to support it. If you haven't read dungeon Deposed you won't care about Uncle, if you haven't read al 5 of super sales you won't know or care what is happening with Felix, or things that are references constantly in this book. Combine this with lack of character development thus very much felt like a have to book than a want to book from the author. Mean yeah Shrit and Zeus resolution but again if you haven't read other world nightmare you won't care.

Seriously I dropped this book with a little under 4 hours left, read the last few minutes and don't know if I will get back to it. Which leaves me in a bit of a spot. If you want to know what is happening in the runnerverse this is a must read, if you just want a good book this ain't it. God I hope this isn't how the otherwise excellent franchise ends.

Great story and I love the overlap!

Love this book and love the connection to Super Sale on Superheroes. Can't wait for the next book.

Different and Wonderful

This book is different from other Arand books and really illustrates the flexibility of the writer. This is a good book and I want to listen to more. Stephanie does an amazing job!

good book!!

william are doing it agein, mabey not his moste acrion full book, but the story is realy good. i cant waite for the next book