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    Magno Girl
    Magno Girl
    Magno Girl
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    Magno Girl

    By Joe Canzano

    3.5/5

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    When a Manhattan pizza maker is found dead in his own dough, Magno Girl enlists the aid of her biker ninja boyfriend to help solve the crime – and quickly discovers there’s more to the pie than meets the eye, including a sinister plot that spans the globe.

    Magno Girl leaps into action. After all, she can fly, she can fight, and she can use her fearsome superpower, the “Gaze of the Guilt,” to bring a hardened criminal to his knees. But the road ahead is hard. The city’s other superheroes despise her, and the cops don’t want her around, and her own mom won’t stop spitting out advice about marrying a “respectable guy” and trading in her crime-fighting career for a baby carriage—but is she attracted to “respectable guys”? And is she interested in emotional commitment? And will finding real love be her biggest challenge of all?

    Magno Girl is a comic fantasy that's great for fans of Christopher Moore, Douglas Adams, and Tom Robbins.

    **THIS BOOK CONTAINS PROFANITY AND ADULT SITUATIONS***

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoe Canzano
    Release dateJan 15, 2015
    ISBN9780990636519
    Magno Girl
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    Joe Canzano

    Joe Canzano is a writer and musician from New Jersey, U.S.A. His short stories have appeared in a half-dozen literary journals, as well as in the Akashic Books online series, "Mondays are Murder." He writes comic fantasy and science fiction, and he's published four novels: Magno Girl, Sex Hell, Suzy Spitifre Kills Everybody, and Suzy Spitifre and the Snake Eyes of Venus.For more information, please visit his web site at www.happyjoe.net.

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    • 4/5
      I received this book for free through BookLikes' giveaways. This was definitely an interesting book and I'm not quite sure what to make of it. I did love the social commentary it offered. Legalman was my favorite villain. I thought his character was very clever. Overall I liked it, even though the style wasn't necessarily my cup of tea.
    • 5/5
      Ridiculously funny, Magno Girl had me laughing out loud throughout the witty dialogue and strange actions of the characters. Interesting and action packed but surprisingly light and fun, the story had it all. If you are looking for a fun story full of humor, action and romance you don't have to look far. I received this free copy in exchange for an honest review.
    • 4/5
      Quirky, irreverent, smart. Will be enjoyed by anyone who loves super heroes and recognizes the crazy world of consumerism that we live in today. Highly enjoyable.
    • 5/5
      The title first caught my attention. Magnolia, not your typical girl, has powers that for the most part are available to help others. At one point, when she loses her powers, she still tries to help as best she can. Full of laughs, the characters play off each other to a hilarious conclusion.
    • 4/5
      Magnolia is a little known super hero flying above the streets of New York fighting petty crimes when she hears that someone just killed Joey the Round Man down at The People’s Pizzeria. She has suspicions that this is part of a larger plot and asks her friend Ron to help out by infiltrating the home of Thaddeus Stone the founder and CEO of Americamart. Ron and Magnolia attempt to unravel a mysterious evil plot while encountering dangerous villains along the way. Magno Girl’s fame increases with every bad guy she takes down and every evil plot she foils. Now she must avoid the paparazzi, endorsements, and movie deals all while dangerous super villains plot to destroy her. Will Magnolia and Ron save the day? Even when the good guys are working for the bad guys, and the bad guys control the materialistic masses.

      First thing, if you’re going to take this book seriously, you’re not going to enjoy it. But if you’re in the mood for a lighthearted and whimsical super hero story then this this will be a fun read. The writing is quick and the wit is sharp. The action scenes are cheesy, but it works because it’s supposed to be cheesy. The dialogue is quirky and silly in a way that makes it endearing:

      "He’s been burned and covered with pizza dough. They turned him into a man-sized Stromboli!” My jaw dropped. “Those dirty bastards.” Most of my family was in the pizza business, and while Joey was not a relative, I hated to see a good tomato soldier go down."

      The writing was good, the jokes were decent, and the story line was entertaining, but what I really couldn’t get through was the interspersed moments of bickering between Magnolia and her mother. It really dragged the story for me. It was good enough the first time to show the relationship between her and her mother, but then it’s replayed over and over again through the story to the point where I literally felt Magnolias frustration. This is really the only disappointing element of the book. The world and back story are well built. The world, or at least New York, is filled with super heroes that fight crime, sometimes alongside the police, and star in commercials and sell their merchandise. There are low level heroes and famous super heroes. Magnolia doesn’t care for fame, but Ron does and they’re constantly fighting the urge to make easy money and stay true to their core belief of doing good for the greater good, not to cash out like many of the archetype super heroes. The story and it’s characters were absurd, but that’s where this book shines. This is a genuinely fun book to read. Don’t take the book seriously, go in ready to laugh and you’ll have a good time. I guarantee it.

      Reviewed at The Hungry Monster Book Review
    • 1/5
      Perhaps it just isn’t my cup of tea, but I found this book extremely hard to connect to. The synopsis sounds like a promising superhero mystery book, though not even 100 pages in and I am struggling to keep going. It is a book that I have had to set down and pick up several times before I even reached page 45.Magno Girl is told from the perspective of the supposed love interest of the story, a biker who is infatuated with our female superhero. Though Magno Girl insists several times throughout the first few chapters that she isn’t interested in a relationship, he still pursues her and the author has them hook up before you even make it a third of the way through the book. Poor characterization and pacing are just part of why this book fails to capture my interest. The other part is the fact is that the book reads like a poor satire. Female superheroes are great and there is a definite need for more of them. However, Magno Girl fails to succeed in keeping one’s attention. There’s promise but perhaps the book should be told from the superheroes point of view and not the biker who is in love with her... All in all, Magno Girl pales in comparison to many of the female superheroes that came before her and most likely those that will come after.(*Note I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review through Goodreads Giveaways.)
    • 4/5
      I received this book for free through BookLikes' giveaways. This was definitely an interesting book and I'm not quite sure what to make of it. I did love the social commentary it offered. Legalman was my favorite villain. I thought his character was very clever. Overall I liked it, even though the style wasn't necessarily my cup of tea.

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