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Dear Ms. Estep:
I enjoyed the first book, Karma Girl, and found that the comic book homage is still fun in Hot Mama. However, like the first book, I find that there is problem of pacing which results from the difficult balance between the emotional arcs the characters and the comic book capers.
Fiona Fine, aka Fiera one of the Fearless Five, is mourning the loss of her teammate and fiance, Travis Teague, the Tornado. She’s decided to throw off her “widow’s weeds” and embarks on a hot and heavy affair with Johnny Belluci, the brother of one of her fashion rivals, Bella Belluci.
Karma Girl and Striker just got married and are off on their honeymoon leaving the Fearless Five down to Three: Fiera, Mr. Sage, and Hermit. Fiera’s the one with the most “firepower” (sorry couldn’t resist the bad quip) and on more than one occasion, Johnny and Fiona experience coitus interruptus as Fiona is called to some emergency in need of a superhero.
I found these episodes to be a bit odd because Fiona hardly ever felt the need to rush to the emergency and would encourage …
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