Soon I Will Be Invincible

The book is told from two perspectives. Villain, Doctor impossible, a evil genius. Hero, Fatale, a cyborg.
I read up to page 37, two chapters, for first impression. So far DI (Doctor Impossible) is still in jail. Wondering how he'll get out and why he deserves to be stuck with a bunch of petty criminals. And talking about how it is to be a villain. Fatale has just joined the Champions and is going on about how she hated her cyborg body, her not knowing what happened, or who made her. So far, strangely, the villain is more liked by me. He seems to be more of an interesting character.

Basically DI escapes and begins to take over the world. He makes many visits to other villains and has so many flashbacks I had to pause to absorb all the information. But in a way, the flashbacks were helpful, because there were so many mysteries. With so many villains and all the escapades coming at you all at once, it was nice to have a break and review the backstory of DI and Corefire.
Fatale is one of the superheroes and is trying to find DI and still has internal monologues about topics mentioned in the first paragraph. She also has flashbacks, but in a different way because she forgot everything about her past. Her flashbacks are about other heroes explaining what it used to be like and an especially boring, but helpful, scene with Elfin/Damsel (I can't remember) and Fatale watching a documentary about the Champion's group history.
DI eventually gains a hammer which makes people invincible although broke and not very effective. He begins to gather his materials and shifts the world's position and create an ice age and he would be the source of all heat and light. Although he said he wasn't going to be a jerk about it and have a couple of sunny days once in a while. As he is moving the moon, Corefire comes back from the dead, or I should say: state of Missing in Action, and invades DI's fortress. DI activates the hammer and then knocks him out and ties him to a pillar.
Then it gets confusing. DI's girlfriend, now a hero, Lily, comes and defeats him. She says that she is not from a far distant alternate future. But was DI's other girlfriend Erica whose love was stolen away by CoreFire who saved her from a beam of energy by taking the beam (like taking the bullet) and got superpowers. She said that she fell into a lot of chemicals and became all transparent and strong. She then built a time machine and went to the future and found out that nearly everything was wiped out by "The Blight" caused by the broken hammer that granted invincibility not being moved. She then came back and lied about being from the future. And then revealed the irony that DI had saved the world by moving the hammer. It ends by DI starting to take over the world again.


What I didn't like is that it was all very confusing. And that the Champions didn't save the day. What I did like is how they built up all the suspense and let out the backstory information slowly and carefully. One thing that was interesting was that DI didn't know who "killed" Corefire, but you forgot that when it switched to Fatale's perspective. I liked the book very much and recommend it.