Reviewed by: Sue Eaton

TITLE: Infernal Justice

SERIES: Men of Vanguard Book 2

AUTHOR: Ryder O’Malley

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 302 pages

RELEASE DATE: March 14, 2022

BLURB:

I save superheroes for a living, even if I hate those egotistical bastards.

My inability to control my temper got me transferred to Heroes Emergency Medical Services. These supposed heroes destroy the city trying to stop villains. When they fall in battle, it’s my job to keep them alive. Work is my life, which explains why I can’t maintain more than meaningless one-nightstands. My life is about to change when a dying superhero chooses me to inherit their cosmic powers. Trust me, I find it ironic, too.

A new supervillain has found a way to depower every super in Vanguard City, all except one. Aiden is an up-and-coming reporter fixated on discovering the truth behind the supernatural phenomena. His persistence would be a turn on, except his obsession is with the Vanguard’s only remaining hero: me. Hard to date a man capable of detecting my lies.

I’m no hero, but I’m Vanguard City’s last defence. This is going to end badly.

Infernal Justice is a M/M, heart-felt adventure with an HEA and no cliff-hangers. It features snark and sex, but not always in that order. This is book two in the Men of Vanguard series.

REVIEW:

I was excited to enter back into the superhero world and find out what was next.

Xander has anger issues, says he doesn’t know where it comes from, but he’s had it all his life. Seems to me he dost protest too much and that his issues are well buried but so painful he has blocked out their origins. As a paramedic he sees firsthand the destruction wrought and the lives

snuffed out or damaged in the aftermath of the superheroes and villains fighting.

The twist is he works for the Heroes Emergency Medical Services so he must ignore injured people and only help the heroes, this injustice goes against everything he believes in, that he should give aid to anyone who needs it and not sit back doing nothing until a hero needs help. He sees the heroes as vain, egotistical, jerks, playing to the crowd, not caring who gets hurt and oblivious to the damage they cause when they take on the villains.

Aidan is a blogger who is trying to land his dream job as a reporter for the same magazine Sebastian (from book 1) works for.

They meet under the most perilous of conditions, a life-or-death moment, high stakes, high adrenaline a truly life changing encounter.

Xander’s life is changed forever that very same night. How can he reconcile what he thinks and believes to the new reality he finds himself in? Add in trying to start a new relationship, trying to hide his changed life, and finding you are the only hero left with any kind of power, even if you are a trainee hero, a hero with no clue, that bungles so badly everyone thinks he’s a villain. Then to cap it all off rumours circulate that he murdered a villain, yep, you’ve guessed it, it’s all a plot by the villains to take over the world. Can Xander rise to all the different challenges and win back Aidan?

It was lovely to see the friends again in this book, still steadfast and loyal. I particularly loved the exchange between Xander and Sebastian near the end of the book, the winks and quiet disclosures was brilliant. It seems that everyone is hiding something, but the truth has a way of getting out.

Another great action-packed book with a sweet romance at the heart of it, it explored if you can be loved for who you are or if you must change. Ultimately you need to want to make changes for yourself never for someone else but that soul searching, truly looking at who you are, the things you’ve buried deep as they are uncomfortable to face makes you a better person. This message is the core of this book wrapped up in a tale of what happens when the person who hates superheroes becomes one.

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