A Shot at the Big Time
- 4.5 out of 5
- 23 ratings
- 187 pages
Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13
This is a snarky adult superhero comedy told in first person by a woman balancing a day job with villain-team politics, prickly friendships, and flirtatious tension. Parents should expect steady moderate profanity and sarcastic insults as the norm in dialogue, not isolated outbursts. Sexual material in the samples is mostly crude humor about costumes and reputation rather than detailed intimacy. Violence fits a comic-book mold: brawling, humiliating training, and occasional real injury, without sampled passages showing sustained graphic gore or torture.
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Crude Mild
22Characters often call each other foolish or incompetent in sarcastic workplace and team rivalries; vulgar insult density is lower than the general profanity.
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Specific words
- idiot: 14
- stupid: 6
- suck: 2
Profanity Moderate
74Strong and mild swearing runs through narration and banter among adult superheroes and office coworkers, including insults in heated arguments and frequent emphatic exclamations spread across the story.
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Specific words
- hell: 24
- ass: 19
- damn: 16
- shit: 8
- bitch: 4
- bastard: 2
- bullshit: 1
Sex Moderate
5Humor and conflict around skimpy villain costumes include vulgar slang and a crude gesture; body references and a mentioned nude-photo scam appear but sampled passages do not show explicit sexual acts on the page.
Specific words
- boob: 2
- nude: 1
- tit: 1
- wank: 1
Violence Moderate
14Superhero fighting tone includes an extended rough training beat with kicks, injury with bleeding, shin-kicks under a table, and talk of punching, alongside many non-violent idiomatic uses of the same words.
Amazon reviews mentioning violence
Specific words
- kick: 7
- punch: 4
- blood: 3
About this book
Now entering Maxima City, home to heroes, villains, the news reporters caught in the middle, and everyday citizens just trying to live their lives. Volume 1: A Shot at the Big Time Lisa Raskin is a woman with big aspirations. Sure, there are worse things than being the second in command to Maxima City’s one and only female supervillain and Lisa knows she has a pretty sweet gig. But no one ever dreams of being second banana, so when she’s given the opportunity to join the Coalition of Evil, Maxima City’s who’s-who of A-lister Malevolents, Lisa jumps at the chance. Especially since this means she can finally have her revenge against Magnificent Man, the hero responsible for the tragedy that turned her to the dark side. But becoming a household name isn’t all evil plans and underground lairs. There are hoops to jump through, brand consultation meetings, damages to pay for, and diva costume designers to deal with. Worst of all, Magnificent Man has made himself scarcer than pockets on women’s clothing. Add in an antagonistic ex, a clueless rival, and a taxing day job, and it’s no wonder this ice talent is about to lose her cool. Read more