Last month, Trashionista interviewed Alan Goldsher, the
writer behind Little Black Dress tales The True Naomi Story, Reality Check and
Today's Special. When we heard about Alan's latest novel, No Ordinary Girl
(which was released at the end of November), I was immediately excited - I
mean, for one, it's a LBD book. And second? It contains super stuff. Super powers usually indicates some amount of
ass-kicking and heck, I love kickassery.
So, what would you give to have super abilities? For most of us it's a dream come true. I could probably dream up one hell of a checklist of things to do if I had super strength and the ability to fly. Alas, super powers are not real. But would you show the world what you could do? Would you make yourself known? For Abbey Bynum, outing her superhuman abilities would be her worst nightmare...
Abbey Bynum was born with her strange yet wonderful powers. Her abilities - what Abbey calls her 'weird stuff' - are kept a secret from everyone besides her parents, best friend and ex, government worker Murphy Napier. Living with her powers hasn't been that much of a problem, and neither has hiding her abilities from geeky Murphy. Flying at night has been her guilty pleasure for as long as she can remember. Life is strange but fine for Abbey, although that's all about to change. When a handsome man turns up at her workplace, Abbey's smitten. But things aren't exactly going to plan...
When it turns out that Jon is actually a supervillain, Abbey has to escape - and not only that, but finally use her powers. Murphy Napier is back on the scene, trying to cajole Abbey into joining the government to put her powers to good use. But pretty soon she realises that outing herself as a superheroine to defeat some of the biggest supervillains out there is not such a bad idea...
I absolutely loved this book. Not just because it's about superheroes (fine, I'm biased...) but I loved Abbey from page one. The story is well-paced and addictive. It was interesting to see how a superhero story could work in a mainstream chick-lit book as it hasn't really been done before, but it DID work. Very well, actually.
Little Black Dress are known for bringing us quirky, funny reads and No Ordinary Girl has to be a favourite so far!
Rating: 5/5
Try this if you liked: Karma Girl by Jennifer Estep
