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    REVIEW: My Not-So-Super Blind Date by Allison Temple

    Subparheroes: My Not-So-Super Blind Date – Allison Temple

    I’m Morgan Murray. You probably haven’t heard of me. With a raft of allergies and powers that won’t do more than charge a phone, I never lived up to my super family’s super expectations. It’s okay. I’m used to being overlooked.

    But there’s only so much disappointment one man can take, and finding out the cute guy on my blind date is a henchman for the city’s most notorious crime boss? That’s one letdown too many. This date is over before it even starts.

    Or is it?

    In the meet cute that won’t end, Jasper and I are stuck in a time loop and the only way out is deadly. Good and evil may be relative terms, but if we can’t escape, we may find out that love is forever…and ever.

    My Not-So-Super Blind Date is part of the Subpar Heroes multi-author MM romance series.


    My Not-So-Super Blind Date by Allison Temple is Book 5 of Subparheroes, a multi-author series about heroes who are not-so-super. TW, There are a lot of on-page deaths here.

    The plot is Groundhog Day meets 50 First Dates, where our subparhero, Morgan Murray, is on a blind date with Jasper Jackson. They got off on the wrong foot, and Morgan walked out of the cafe, only to be hit by a bus. Then, he woke to find himself in the cafe, yet again, waiting for his blind date, Jasper. For the nth time.

    The thing with time loops is that it tends to get repetitive. The opening chapters did feel like that, understandable as Morgan is still slowly remembering his past dates and deaths. The book hit its stride when Morgan started working with Jasper to find a way out of the loop. I was completely riveted!

    The whole mystery of the time loop, why Morgan, who’s Jasper, and who put them there, was so damned fascinating! I normally find time-traveling loops taxing to my lazy reader brain, but here, this phenomenon was well-executed, challenging, yet relatively easy to digest.

    While I had my suspects, the shadowy villain, Indigo, for one, I still couldn’t figure out most of it. Plenty of information was revealed once Morgan and Jasper felt more comfortable with each other.

    There was Morgan’s family, particularly his superhero mother, Flame, killed in a battle with Indigo. Ezekiel, his grieving stepfather, is a genius scientist currently working on an energy conversion project that, no exaggeration, could save the world. Morgan worked alongside him on this project.

    V is the cafe waitress and a friend of Flame. Her grief led her to open a superhero-themed cafe. Her character is overlooked by Morgan for most of the story, avoiding her because of his mother. Turned out that V has more in her wheelhouse than just pouring coffee.

    Jasper Jackson is a sweetheart! This ray of sunshine deserves better!

    Jasper was a friend of a friend who was also in med school. Now, he henching for a notorious mobster named Wolfe. Aside from medicine, Jasper is very handy with computers and network security. Also, hella charming, killer smile and can talk his way out of any situation. And for some reason, actually likes Morgan!

    Morgan is a man with many allergies, barely-there powers, and a black-and-white view of the world. His Judgy Mcjudgy attitude didn’t endear himself to me.

    He pretty much assumed the worst of Jasper when he told him about his henching, despite Jasper telling him Morgan didn’t know the entire story yet. Morgan likes to assume the worst about everyone and everything in that barely tolerable snooty attitude.

    Later, he learned about Jasper’s family and Jasper’s actual work as a henchman and apologized. Still, Morgan’s a grump without the charm. Would’ve dropped the book because of him if it wasn’t so intriguing.

    The puzzle pieces were all there. The fun was finding out how they fit, revealing the big picture. And we find out only when Morgan did. The author did a fantastic job leading us to that moment!

    Overall, My Not-So-Super Blind Date is a gripping mystery, a romance with infinite possibilities, and one man’s eye-opening journey, one death at a time.

    Rating:
    4.5 Stars – perfection is only half a step away

    Soundtrack: Come A Little Closer
    Artist: Cage The Elephant
    Album: Melophobia


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    SOUNDTRACK: Come A Little Closer by Cage The Elephant

    Soundtrack to Subparheroes: My Not-So-Super Blind Date by Allison Temple

    Come A Little Closer by Cage The Elephant for a book about blind dates, a mission to save the world, and always, the promise of “see you tomorrow”.

    Heartbreaks, the heavy world’s upon your shoulders
    Will we burn or we just smolder?
    Somehow I know I’ll find you there
    Oooh, I wanna see if you can change it, change it
    Still I know I’ll see you there

    Come on, come on, come on
    Do you understand the things that you’ve been dreaming?
    Come a little closer, then you’ll see
    Come a little closer, then you’ll see

    Ten thousand people stand alone now
    And in the evening the sun sets
    Tomorrow it will rise

    Time flies by, they all sang along

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    Time shakes, found you at the water
    At first you were my father, now I love you like a brother
    Earthquakes shake the dust behind you
    This world at times will blind you
    Still I know I’ll see you there

    Come a little closer, then you’ll see
    Come on, come on, come on
    Things aren’t always what they seem to be
    Come on, come on, come on

    Do you understand the things that you’ve been seeing?
    Come on, come on, come on
    Do you understand the things that you’ve been dreaming?
    Come a little closer, then you’ll see

    Heartbreaks, the heavy world’s upon your shoulders
    Will we burn or we just smolder?
    Somehow I know I’ll find you there
    Oooh, I wanna see if you can change it, change it
    Still I know I’ll see you there

    Come a little closer, then you’ll see
    Come on, come on, come on
    Things aren’t always what they seem to be
    Do you understand the things that you’ve been seeing?

    Come on, come on, come on
    Do you understand the things that you’ve been dreaming?
    Come a little closer, then you’ll see
    Come a little closer, then you’ll see

    Ten thousand people stand alone now
    And in the evening the sun sets
    Tomorrow it will rise

    Time flies by, they all sang along
    Time flies by, they all sang along
    Time flies by, they all sang along
    Time flies by by

    Come a little closer, then you’ll see
    Come on, come on, come on
    Come a little closer, then you’ll see
    Come a little closer, then you’ll see
    Come a little closer, then you’ll see