Soon I Will Be Invincible, Austin Grossman

The midwestern dawn was gray and the bus station was gray, as well. I had slept a little next to a dumpster behind a supermarket. I had cracked open pay phones with my hands until I had enough for the bus ticket and a Milky Way bar. I was exhausted and broke, young and evil and superintelligent, somewhere in America.

Doctor Impossible is just another fucked up dude who wants to take over the world. He never succeeds, of course--the heroes always get him--but it's a compulsion. This time, with his arch rival apparently out of the way, it looks like he might have a chance.

I liked this book. Being about superbeings (sorry, "metahumans"), it's pretty silly in places, but it doesn't pretend otherwise.

Most of the plot twists are predictable--there was only one that I didn't predict--but mainly the writing is solid and entertaining.