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Delivering Justice

In the neon metropolis of Neo Elysium, superheroines streak across the sky, villains destroy buildings on random weekdays, and honey reigns as the city’s favorite pizza topping. But for Arthur Ward, none of it matters. He’s a burnt-out delivery guy with a life slipping past him and scars he’s spent years running from.

Until the night he becomes collateral damage in a clash between the rookie hero Solaris and the mad genius Doctor Bellreve. Broken, blinded, and drenched in a volatile chemical, Arthur should be dead. Instead, the chemical rewrites the laws of biology… and forces him to evolve.

He becomes the the first male Empowered.

Suddenly, the man who wanted nothing more than a quiet life becomes the city’s newest—and most dangerous—mystery. His body changes faster than the doctors can skin hardening to iron under pressure, frost pouring from his skin under heat. But every power has a price, and villains would burn the world to get their hands on him.

Luckily, he isn’t alone. The guilt-ridden and protective Solaris refuses to leave his side, vowing to help him even at the risk of herself. But more heroines are beginning to notice the lone man who can challenge them… and perhaps even help them. In a world where superpowered women burn hot and need even hotter release to stabilize their powers, Arthur is in more danger than he realizes.

The first male Empowered has arrived, and everyone wants a piece of him.

343 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 4, 2025

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554 reviews10 followers
January 6, 2026
Instead of Therapy

Some people write books instead of going to therapy.
The MC is a mess with no self awareness. That would be fine if we weren't stuck in his head, but that miserable hole is where we spend every word. That bilge colors every interaction, relationship, and intimate scene, for the worse. And the author presents the MC as aspirational, undeservedly.
The setting is equally messed up. But I have given this work enough of my time.
Don't repeat my mistakes.
Go read something else.
398 reviews
December 14, 2025
Emotionally weak MC

Couldn't finish. The MC was too emotionally weak and had very little motivation. The MC was a looser in the beginning and basically stayed a looser with power. The author basically make the MC not very bright so that he can continually make bad decisions to move the plot along. When the MC was finally kidnapped, I was rooting for the villain to end the MC so we could move onto someone more interesting.
126 reviews
December 16, 2025
Fantastic Adventure

What a great ride. We really need more from this genre. Super hero girlfriends are so underused. I love the gentle femdom as well. Really "loving" femdom in general is underused and we need more of it. Though there wasn't as much as I hoped. It always transitions into the male lover role instead of letting the women stay in charge.
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610 reviews41 followers
December 27, 2025
I DNF this book before page 100, as the overarching premise left me disinterested.

The MC is your typical loser, delivering pizza and living in a craptastic apartment. He's on his way home when a superhero and villain battling each other end up with him as a casualty. He's disfigured, and splashed with some unknown chemical. The superhero, of which there are only women due to abilities only showing up with XX chromosome pairs, is beside herself with worry about the MC, hanging around his hospital bed for weeks before he wakes up. His behavior upon waking up is mostly pouting and whining. Eventually, the hero woman breaks him out of the hospital for "reasons" that make zero sense, other than maybe the power of pouting?

What really drove me off with the whole "only women can have superpowers, but now the MC gets to have them, so he's the only male in existence that all these sexually frustrated heroines can date" trope. Otherwise known as harem, no effort mode. That trope only works for me if there is something else going on, like excellent comedy and other factors that can make me ignore how easy the MC has it. This book doesn't offer that.
413 reviews11 followers
December 14, 2025
Fantastic new series.

Absolutely amazing characters and great story so far, I really like the cool revelations at the end and look forward to more on that. All the MCs relationships felt very real and empathetic. This book was lighter on action but I actually love that it works super well with this story.
81 reviews1 follower
December 15, 2025
damn this was a solid read

I went into this story blind, and man all I can say is that I did not expect to get hit by a story that’s a 10/10 in my book. The character development, the plot, the action, the ROMANCE, damn near everything was honestly spectacular in this book and I’m hooked. I genuinely can’t wait to read more of this series.
3 reviews1 follower
January 7, 2026
A wonderful start.

I could really see the love for erotica in this one. Usually the sexy time is just nice emotional closure for characters that you usually don’t get. In this case, it was truly hot and was rewarding for both characters and reader.

I very much appreciate the cast in this one. It really is a superhero’s origin story with a darker twist than usual. The complications of this genre were explored in a much more complicated manner than usual and I appreciate that. Not only did I love each character, I believed in them in a way I might with comic book heroes. Can’t wait to see more of them and from them; especially one of them in particular…

Can’t wait to see more from Silas. This has been my favorite superhero story on Unlimited so far. As a fan of the Steelheart series by Brandon Sanderson, can’t wait to see more!
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37 reviews
December 11, 2025
Strong Start and looking forward to more!

I think if you enjoyed Saving Super Villains there's a good chance you'll like this book. I thought it's characters were well written and the romance was strong with believable ups and downs. Not super action heavy but that doesn't mean nothing happens as it's much more character focused which I appreciate.
14 reviews
December 12, 2025
It's Awesome!

I'm a big fan of the MC having a troubled backstory, and also learning bits and pieces as you read that makes you go "OH! Wow!" Silas did an excellent job with how the relationship starts, and leads into the LI's without being "too slow" or "too fast. Keep up the good work!
20 reviews
December 11, 2025
Amazing story with great character growth

An amazing start, middle, and end.
The character growth was amazing, with every bit of information drip feed to keep you wanting more.
The relationships are handled well, and honestly delves a lot into the characters core personalities.
I'd say give it a shot. At 25% I knew I couldn't read another book until I finished this one
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60 reviews1 follower
April 18, 2026
This is gonna be a short one because I am on the phone.

This is a 2.5 because the world is interesting and the MC holds promise in terms of his ability to reflect and process trauma, but it would really benefit from adding a bit of depth to the MCs relationships and having a second set of eyes look through the MCs inner monologue/ inner monologue that leads to an emotional reaction to a conversation with another character.

I felt no connection or depth to Lucy or Bella. There wasn't much to connect the MC to them either, other than the world's own mechanicsbwhich the author, of course, sets. Initially I thought that the main love interest failing to save the MC and helping him through recovery could be an interesting starting point, but the rest of the book devolved into 'the heroines are sexually frustrated so they fall in love with the mc'. Oh, and lots of smut ofc which I do not generally care about and which weren't actually particularly interesting. The only half way interesting relationship is between Bravada and the MC, but that's really a side plot in this book.

Also the main character sometimes impresses me with his emotional maturity/ reflection and there is real promise in how he attempts to work through trauma, only to go ahead and translate that in the most whiplash inducing childlike thing he could say to the people around him.

The story isn't anything special either, so it doesbt make up for the relationship and character flaws.

I feel bad about leaving mostly negative reviews on books because they represent the hard work and sweat of the author, and I am but an unreliable narrator of my experiences, but if there is not much there in the first place I can't help but focus on the negatives.
266 reviews11 followers
December 16, 2025
My Hero Mehcademia

This series has good potential, but the delivery so far has been meh. The MC is basically a type of Deku, he has this incredible power but can only use like 15% of it and using 100% puts him in the hospital, sound familiar?

The story is interesting and I want to keep reading, but there are some things that kind of irritate me. The whole thing of awakened are immune to their powers because their body adapts to it, that’s fairly obvious. The thing that annoys me, the MCs body would start immediately adapting as well because with those cells in his body it would achieve only two things, he adapts quickly, or his body rejects it and starts trying to rid itself of them. This isn’t a training thing, it’s basic biology, but the author seems to not understand that. His body would start changing genetically, adapting his physiology to be able to use the powers safely. Exercising isn’t going to achieve that!

Also there is way too much emotional baggage for these people. Like seriously, the hero’s have more emotional damage than the villains! They literally are one awkward fart from a nervous breakdown! All they do is whine and second guess themselves all the time. They’re more angsty than a high school homecoming dance….

Overall, the book is good enough that I want to continue the series, I just hope the author moves away from some of this annoying stuff.
18 reviews
March 25, 2026
Decent idea ruined by the main character

I really try not to be too harsh, and I don't want a "Alpha male" chad guy who will throw the entire world on its shoulders in 3 chapters.

But I do expect some, heck ANY growth from the main character.

Is he actually an adult? I get it he has PTSD and trauma from when he was a kid. Yeah that is rough and I imagine he's got some emotional baggage to work through. But he doesn't. At all.

He literally goes from being a nervous, stuttering, cringey mess on his date with his superhero girlfriend. To banging each other's brains out, and then requesting a favor from one of the few people in the book who acts like a functioning adult (Bravada).

He's kind of an A-hole the entire ride to their destination (after he asked for the favor to begin with). Then he has an absolute psychotic break the entire time he's with her and hyperventilates and freaks/lashes out for a few paragraphs. Then suddenly acts like "*sniff* I can handle it, I'm ready now."

If you want a decent idea, in a book with a bunch of almost excessive smut, with one of the whiniest main characters, and mostly immature adults you've ever seen. Then this is the book for you.
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543 reviews2 followers
June 11, 2026
This was pretty bad. While the premise has potential, it is squandered if the MC has no redeeming qualities. To believe that a group of powerful heroes would make this wuss the center of a harem for any reason other than him being the only option is laughable. The story’s central relationship between (what’s his name? Pizza boy?) and Lucy starts out fueled by guilt and then persists without any real justification, other than a weird traumatic bond. Which raises the question, why would a guy traumatized by fire pick a “fire girl” for his main LI? Is this supposed to be character growth? Next, if the Association knows this dude is being hunted, why give him a Life Alert bracelet rather than a security detail? This mostly being a problem due to the MC also being suicidally stupid. The final reveal was interesting enough to make me consider reading the next, but I know I’m going to regret it (I think low-key I may be a masochist…).
32 reviews
May 7, 2026
So this is a good book, but I did have issues with it.

First off the pacing of this story is crazy. Lots of time skips. A few months here and there.

Second the sex. It happens way too fast even with the time skips. There’s also a lot of it.

The relationship doesn’t really feel earned.

Finally when the big bands show up, the fight didn’t really hook me. I actually stopped in the middle and kind of had to force myself to go back.

All that said, it’s not a bad story. It was fun to listen to it. I did enjoy parts of it.

I know there’s another book already out. I could see myself listening to the next one if I don’t really have anything else to listen to.
255 reviews
December 5, 2025
Not just a great superhero book, but so much more!

This book was not just an amazing first entry into this genre by a new author, nor was it just one of the best superhero slice of life books I’ve read, but it was also an incredibly well written romance. The characters felt real. They had their own faults and strengths and personalities. The interactions felt real and the love was sweet and heartfelt. The story itself was nothing to sneeze and kept you hooked until the very end. I can’t wait for more from this author.
58 reviews1 follower
December 19, 2025
Solid but needs a good edit

I really enjoyed the book. It has a feeling of saving supervillains and that's one of my favorite series'. It does need a healthy edit, I don't want to say rewrite but that might be an option. Some of the scenes are disconjointed and are hard to parse, the pacing is fine but could use a little tweaking, and the characters and how they act could use some polish.

Overall I really enjoyed the book. Hopefully the second one will be an improvement on what is already good here.
1,566 reviews17 followers
February 6, 2026
A wonderful beginning!!!!

A really great new version of the Super power fantasy we have all read. The world building and character development are fantastic as expected!!! The flow of the story is written so well you will not want to put it down. The realism of damage and issues we all have plays wonderfully in the story making the characters more appealing. I personally will always enjoy the stories with an underlying mystery and good slice of life blended into the adventures and fantasy parts of the story. More more more
98 reviews3 followers
February 22, 2026
Not great with poor writing

Look a smut book is fine, and I can even suspend my disbelief about how all of these women are enamored with a plane main character. However to have these women falling over themselves and being overly flirting with the lead when he is still covered in burns, acid scars to his face and other damage that is in the process of healing was too much. I’m not looking for realism here but at least have the guy fully healed to keep the story consistent before you start making the characters hook up.
122 reviews1 follower
December 19, 2025
fun first draft

This book was fun, the world was interesting. The protagonist is sort of terrible but intentionally so, hopefully he’ll grow if the series continues.

The only real criticism is that it feels like a first draft. The book is absolutely littered with typos and poor incorrect word choices. The tense is a little all over the place as well. One or two passes by a decent editor though and this book could be a contender.
60 reviews1 follower
January 3, 2026
Both darker and yet more real than I expected

Going in blind I really appreciated Arthur's character as its fed to us throught the book. His real feeling emotional trauma as well as his experiences of Love/ joy. This book just made be belive in the setting as few "superhero " future settings do in this type of book. 5 out of 5 as it makes me instantly want to read the next book.
610 reviews
May 4, 2026
Interesting read, I enjoyed it

This book had a veritable rollercoaster of emotions for the poor MC which made the story interesting, but also carried a lot of baggage for the story. The story falls somewhere between an action story and a slice-of-life, with more of a fish out of water, with trouble following edge to it. I enjoyed the story and plan to start Book 2 shortly. What the hell is a honey pizza?
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232 reviews10 followers
May 6, 2026
Super tale of Love and Superheroines

From one horror to the next super strength, only trust and hopefully Love will overcome devastating super criminals. Better than the pulp noir tales of superheroes of yore this first volume is a rip roaring first person experience. From Zero to Hero Arthur has noble intentions, aided by women who protect him with every super strength to the end.
And who is Cassanova?
259 reviews1 follower
December 29, 2025
Finished with a smile on my face.

Give it a shot. The writing and story are very good. I was waffling on giving it a 4, but at the end of the book, I was left with a big smile on my face, with the satisfied feeling, which bumped it up to a five.
I have to admit, that I skimmed through the last spicy scene, as I wanted to get back to the story, but that was the only one.
67 reviews1 follower
January 6, 2026
Fun beginning!

Interesting superhero story that begins with a very unique idea. What would a world where all heroes are women be like for the first male. Arthur along with Lucy and Bella . We’re presented with supervillains that are a challenge and not underpowered. I am anxiously awaiting the next episode.
1,056 reviews14 followers
January 12, 2026
A little heavy on the drama but fun

The book was a little heavy on the drama. Especially from the MC. However, it's settled down at the end. Could be the makings of a good series, but it'll need another book to set it up. Enjoyable, but not as many battles as I would think in a hero book. However, the next book may change that.
13 reviews
January 18, 2026
Great plot terrible editing!

If this had any editing done I would have given it a 4 or 5 star rating. The story is compelling and believable even for this genre. The only issue was editing because of all of the typos and grammatical errors in this book it kept pulling me out of what would have been a wonderful story for this adult themed book with a good plot and story.
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January 25, 2026
not sure aspiring is the right word

Hella’ve story, can’t wait for the next one. Pathos, ethos, Eros mixed in with a generous portion of bam, pow, boom! Interesting, layered characters, tantalizing plot line.
This guy ain’t ‘aspiring’, he’s ‘accomplished’.
Can’t wait for the next one… (yeah, I know, I said that already.)
224 reviews
February 16, 2026
Annoying

Actually a 3 star for me, but others will probably like it more.

I love the story and the little touches of extra info that suddenly give the story more meaning, but I hate the wuss that is the hero. He vacillates between being scared of everything and the next moment taking charge. I understand why he’s like that, trauma etc. But it still makes me annoyed.
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1,255 reviews8 followers
February 24, 2026
Before I started reading this I honestly wasn't expecting much but I'm happy to be wrong. This is easily one of the best superhero romance stories I've read. The author did a great job balancing story, emotional beats, action, character development, and ahem "action". It's all very well written and I'm looking forward to reading more from them.
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