I am really excited to be a part of the Blog Tour for Secret Identity by Alex Segura! I received a free electronic copy for honest review from the publisher. Thanks so much to Flatiron Books and Alex Segura for letting me be a part of the tour!
Title: Secret Identity
Author: Alex Segura
Published by: Flatiron Books
Released: March 15, 2022
Source: Electronic Review Copy Provided by Publisher
Synopsis: From Anthony Award-winning writer Alex Segura comes Secret Identity, a rollicking literary mystery set in the world of comic books.
It’s
1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez
doesn’t care. She’s an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn’t have
the creative zeal of Marvel nor the buttoned-up efficiency of DC, but it
doesn’t matter. Carmen is tantalizingly close to fulfilling her dream
of writing a superhero book.
That dream is nearly a reality when
one of the Triumph writers enlists her help to create a new character,
which they call “The Lethal Lynx,” Triumph's first female hero. But her
colleague is acting strangely and asking to keep her involvement a
secret. And then he’s found dead, with all of their scripts turned into
the publisher without her name. Carmen is desperate to piece together
what happened to him, to hang on to her piece of the Lynx, which turns
out to be a runaway hit. But that’s complicated by a surprise visitor
from her home in Miami, a tenacious cop who is piecing everything
together too quickly for Carmen, and the tangled web of secrets and
resentments among the passionate eccentrics who write comics for a
living.
Alex Segura uses his expertise as a comics creator as
well as his unabashed love of noir fiction to create a truly
one-of-a-kind novel--hard-edged and bright-eyed, gritty and dangerous,
and utterly absorbing. (Synopsis from Goodreads)
My Thoughts: This one caught my attention from the first page. I loved how it was set in the comic world, with Carmen Valdez chasing her dream to being a comic book creator.
This book has a really great atmosphere. It's set in 1975 New York. It really adds to the story.
Carmen is a great character to follow. She had a lot of things to fight against in her goal to work in the comic industry. She never gives up. I just really liked following her story.
I also enjoyed the mystery element to the book. I was flipping pages to see what was going to happen next.
This was a unique read, and one that I really enjoyed. I'd definitely recommend picking it up.
Alex Segura is the SVP - Sales and Marketing at Oni Press
and the author of Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall and the acclaimed
Pete Fernandez Mystery series. He has also written a number of comic
books, most notably the superhero noir The Black Ghost, the YA music
series The Archies, and the “Archie Meets” collection of crossovers. A
Miami native, he lives in New York City with his wife and children.
Thanks so much for checking out my Blog Tour Stop for Secret Identity by Alex Segura. Thank you to Flatiron Books and Alex Segura for having me on the tour. If you love comics and mysteries, I'd definitely recommend grabbing this one.
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