Please Don't Tell My Parents I Work for a Supervillain

By: Richard Roberts

Narrated by: Penelope Graham

What do you do when you have the wrong superpowers?

Magenta's older brother is a superhero. She's starting high school at the school where kids with powers go, including the famous Inscrutable Machine. Except, Magenta's powers are no good for fighting. Her potions are useful, not dangerous. Her other power is just humiliating. What Magenta has plenty of is determination, and she tries fighting a supervillain anyway.

She fails.

But for Magenta, failure is the beginning, not the ending. Suddenly she has a part-time job working for that same supervillain, who doesn't seem very villainous. She spends her afternoons buying mad science from smugglers, copying memories into a magic book, delivering messages to evil lawyers, and always, always, putting on a show. Soon, she's ducking heroes who want to save her from herself, and her best friends, who don't know the sidekick they're chasing is Magenta.

Making sure her parents don't find out is the easy part.

©2021 Richard Roberts (P)2021 David N. Wilson

A good return to the Please Don't Tell universe

This book was fun. The characters are likeable and the story is interesting. It'll never top the first book in the series, but I think that's because the first book has so much world building to do, whereas this one just has to tell a new story in a familiar setting.
I only have two complaints - the reader goes a bit slowly, so it's best to turn the playback speed up a little, and we still don't get to see my favorite secondary character, Lucy Far; she's explicitly stated to be out of town partway through the book. Bummer.
Still, if you like the Please Don't Tell My Parents universe, you will probably enjoy this edition to it.

great story but the editing could use some work

i loved every aspect of this book, except the editing, mistakes by the narrator were left in, pauses seemed unnaturally long and at least once a clip was played twice. other than that it was just as good as the other books in this series, a bit different tone but not in a bad way and i did like that we got new characters.

Epic

Really loved the story. Found myself not wanting to stop so I could sleep. Would love the next one to see the next adventure and how she’s dragged into it. Trying not to give spoilers!

Somewhat Sad and Somewhat Excited

I am disappointed that the original main character wasn't in this book. i would have liked to hear about how she is dealing with the loss of her powers. instead we are treated to a new main character with unique powers.

The worst part of this audiobook was the narrator. She left in several mistakes and retakes. I hope that Richard gets the original narrator to redo this book.

great fin

as fun and fast paced as the first series. highly recommend for anyone that read the first three. note this is a new stand alone series.