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Hench
By Natalie Zina Walschots
7 Jan, 2021
Jolabokaflod
Natalie Zina Walschots’ 2020 Hench is a standalone superhero novel. Well, superhuman novel.
Professional henchperson Anna Tromedlov office temps for supervillains. It’s a living of sorts. At least she’s not working for someone like Jeff Bezos.
It’s a job of the sort that passes for normal in our times: meager pay and kvetching with coworkers re inept bosses. It’s normal until Electric Eel, Anna’s latest employer, drags her along to the scene of his latest zany crime. Which places Anna in the same room as superhero Supercollider.