#44 Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn

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Evie is the do it all capable assistant to her childhood best friend, Aveda Jupiter heroine of San Francisco.  A demon portal opened up several years ago and several people got powers out of it.  Portals continue to open up and demons come through and attack the city. The problem with this is the demons take on the shape of what they first see when they come through so at the beginning of the story it is demon cupcakes.  The interesting thing about Aveda is she is the heroine of the city but she doesn’t use her powers to take down the demons she uses her fighting skills that she constantly works at.  When a training temper tantrum damages her ankle she gets Evie to step in and impersonate her at an event using a glamor charm from one of their friends that was also powered up in the first incursion.

Things don’t go as planned and Evie release her powers during a demon incursion while she is impersonating Aveda.  Now she has to continue with the charade since everyone thinks that Aveda is getting stronger.  Aveda wants her to do this to keep her brand and public image out there but Evie is trying and yet Aveda never seems to be happy with the results. Things do come to a head and the ending is good and bonds of friendship are strengthened over this.

I liked it for the honest way it treated how the friends first met and grew up together.  It really came across as a honest portrayal of friends both being jerks and supporting one another during the course of a lifetime of friendship.

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Netgalley