Reddit reviews Blackjack Villain (The Blackjack Series Book 1)

I just published a novel based on a completely new world called Blackjack Villain. First in a series of eight and it's getting great reviews.

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There's a lot of great authors publishing independently(self and small press) now, but it can be hard to pick the ones you'll enjoy out of the flood of new releases on Amazon. I'll link to a few of the authors and books I've enjoyed.

Super hero novels

The Blackjack novels by Ben Bequer are fun.

I also enjoyed Confessions of a D-List Supervillian by Jim Bernheimer. They share similar themes of a super-villain forced out of their comfort zone.

Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain by Richard Roberts is the start of a great young adult series about the daughter of super heroes charting her own path.

Fantasy and SF

Anything by Andrea K Höst is great. The Touchstone series is great comfort reading about a young woman who walks around a corner and ends up in another world. It's the most SF of her works.

Terry Mancours' Spellmonger series is a fun fantasy about a mage who retires to the backwoods but ends up in the center of a continent spanning conflict. It spends a lot of time on the details of living in a fantasy world, but there's plenty of action too.

John Conroe's Demon Accords is a contemporary fantasy about a cop turned holy warrior. Fun action/fantasy, a couple of the books focus on side characters for a change of pace.

Jack L. Knapp has a couple enjoyable SF series. I'm partial to his New Frontiers series about the rediscovery of a space drive technology and humanities expansion in to the solar system.

Military SF

Marko Kloos is great as mentioned by others.

Christopher Nutall has a ton of books, both SF and fantasy(I tend to prefer his fantasy).

Steelheart is definitely intersting. I like the book, however i definitely feel it's quite juvenile. Especially compared to Worm. I made a post about super hero books in /r/fantasy and it's actually how I came across Worm. As for smart and in depth books, I don't have any super hero or power related books to suggest.

However I would suggest checking out Black Jack Villain by Ben Bequer. It has a lot of that team based super hero combat that's featured in Worm and it tells a similar story of somebody starting off with powers. It manages to do this without being too similar to any other story i've read.

Blackjack Villain, Ben Bequer - $3 on amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Blackjack-Villain-The-Series-Book-ebook/dp/B007PV3QW6

You can see my post at the link below:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1m29t7/super_hero_style_books_got_any_more/

Also some other books i've read:

Meta, Tom Reynolds - Really easy read. Pretty basic story, nothing too surprising. Only the first book is available. A pretty Young Adult super hero read.

Control Point, Myke Cole - The tagline is Black Hawk Down meets X-men. The book starts off very similar to x-men in terms of background. The gov't has a huge hand in super hero relations and it's easy to relate too. However, the last half of the book is fairly lacking in the same to type of story building and reasoning as the X-men series. The characters can be very frustrating