I really wanted to like this book, but it's just bad. Slow and dull and, in the end, just a weirdly specific wish-fulfilment fantasy. The antagonists are arseholes specifically to justify the protagonist in doing whatever she wants, and the good guys just love her and give her everything she wants for no real reason.

The idea of corrupt or incompetent super heroes and a super villain whose goal is to expose them is great. That premise is why I wanted to like this book. But here, when the supervillain asks why the heroes are considered good guys and he's considered a bad guy, the answer is obvious: it's because you're committing crimes and they're trying to stop you, dude. And yes, the main super hero is an arsehole. You're still the one doing the crimes. That's why people think you're a criminal - because you are.

But the actual plot is a tiny part of the book. As I said, it's mostly a wish-fulfilment fantasy for the author. The protagonist (an obvious author stand-in) gets recruited by the supervillain Doctor Oracle, whose secret lair is an island where everything is exactly the way she likes it, and everyone likes her and she and her new friends get to go on fun missions to infiltrate fancy parties and steal diamonds. And absolutely none of it is entertaining. Even if you share her specific fantasies, she's still no good at writing about them.

Oh, and her fantasies are incredibly dull. The main one is a food court where you don't have to pay! Seriously. A bar where you get free drinks, but there's a three drinks per day maximum so no one can get drunk (but don't worry, as one of the boss's friends you can get extra booze so you don't need to worry about that limit). A swimming pool next door, but no one's allowed to use it after 11pm so there won't be any annoying neighbours out there at night! No kids allowed! It's all so fucking banal. And that's the majority of the book.