Superhero Saving Herself... (Review of Breaking the Dark--A Marvel Crime Novel)
There’s just something about superheroes. Having inhuman powers. Fighting bad guys. Kicking lots of ass. Sounds pretty awesome, right? (Except for... when it isn’t. ) To Jessica Jones, a perpetual outsider, being a “superhero”—a tarnished, been-to-hell-and-back one, at that—is anything but awesome. And ever since a whole lot of crap went down in her life—culminating in her retirement from the whole superhero biz, and making everything that much less awesome—she’s been doing her level best to just... exist. Not in any “super” kind of way. But in an if-only-I-can-get-through-another-day way. Until the day Amber Randall walks through the grimy door of Jessica’s dingy apartment-cum-private-eye-office-space... begging for help, as only a desperate parent can. Jessica, wallowing in the pit of despair, fear, and self-loathing deep within her soul, is drawn to the other woman’s pain and fear, for it...