Simon: Not Your Average Superhero (Not Your Average Chronicles Book 1)

Simon: Not Your Average Superhero, by Lucas Mayberry.Simon is just your average guy. Until, when returning home on the tube, following a job interview, something happens that changes Simon’s life forever.A warning to younger readers: this book contains, bad language, violence, gore, and explicit sex scenes and scenes of torture. A fast-paced, imaginative story. Simon discovers his amazing abilities and his ascent from a mere average person into superhero status, literally happens overnight. This

“Simon: Not Your Average Superhero” is a fantastic tale for someone looking for something new in fiction. The book’s narration is in a rare second-person point of view. We start in a framing narrative, with an elderly man telling a character named Simon a tale of how the old one turned into a superhero. From there, the story opens up. We watch what I love in a story, an average person growing into the hero they always were meant to be. The pace moves quickly, the characters evoke true emotions,

Simon is not your average superhero and this is not your average book.First of all I loved that it is told in 2nd person and every now and then I had a moment when I thought the narrator, by his use of the word 'you', was talking to me. Is this the author making us channel our inner superhero? Okay, we don't all have the capacity to fly or come back to life and we never will but that doesn't stop us from doing everyday heroic things on a small scale. You hear about it day and daily on the news w