Post by mdorman

I originally read Hench shortly after it was released in 2020; I remembered enjoying it, but I only re-read it because its sequel has just come out, and I needed to refresh my memory of what happened.

It's grounded in the super-hero genre, and as with any super-hero story you have to be willing to suspend your disbelief. I had honestly forgotten how intense it is in spots—there's some outright body-horror moments towards the end.

It's good—and it manages to slip some feminist commentary in there among the spandex—but I don't know that I'd say it's great. I'm definitely curious to see where the sequel goes.

But most importantly, it overlaps with this bit from episode 3¹ of Kill James Bond that I think about a lot:

Footnotes

1. You might be able to guess it's Goldfinger. As of this writing they're at 302 episodes.

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