But I'm not a Supervillain!!!

When Sherry Broward steals a Rembrandt on what should have been a routine job, she kicks off a chain of chaos she is spectacularly unprepared to manage. There's the Russian mob breathing down her neck, a mysterious serum rewriting her biology in ways she can't yet explain, and a new love interest who happens to be the very superhero tasked with recovering the painting Sherry stole. The emotional core of this story isn't the heist or the superpowers—it's the particular agony of wanting someone while knowing the truth could detonate everything. Aoibh Wood keeps the stakes personal even as the world around Sherry gets increasingly, delightfully absurd.

Wood writes with a sharp comic instinct that never undermines the genuine feeling underneath. The pacing is tight, the banter crackles, and the rotating cast of disasters—vengeful ex-girlfriends, attack corgis, hapless criminals on a harbor cruise—lands with the rhythm of someone who understands that comedy and heart aren't opposites. But I'm Not a Supervillain!!! rewards readers who enjoy genre fiction with actual wit to it: a story that knows exactly how ridiculous it is and uses that self-awareness to sneak in something unexpectedly sincere.