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Hench #2
Villain
The Boys meets Starter Villain and Assistant to the Villain in Natalie Zina Walschots’s electrifying, sharp, violent, and hilarious sequel to the highly acclaimed novel, Hench, in which the Auditor must confront the near-impossible in order to right the many wrongs in the superhuman industry…or cause more of them. She’s not picky.
Anna, better known to superheroes as the Auditor, has carved out a name for herself. Any hero unlucky enough to cross her path knows her potential and powers. Surely, success should taste she has an incredible job with lots of perks, and her boss will literally annihilate anyone who crosses her, and her greatest enemy, the former hero Supercollider, has been utterly defeated and literally ground to a pulp.
But Anna still has her sights set on a greater destroying the Draft, the organization that makes, trains, and manages the world’s most powerful superheroes. These “heroes” have shown time and time again that they do more harm than good, and now is the time to stop the damage at its source.
Yet all is not well for the Auditor and her fellow evildoers. Her employer, Leviathan—the world’s most feared supervillain—is not coping well with Supercollider’s defeat at someone else’s hands. Moreover, her unlikely ally and unexpected friend, Quantum Entanglement, has vanished without a trace, leaving Anna to examine all the ways they deceived each other. Tension and uncertainty fill the air, and fear that this moment of triumph is about to crumble looms over all of them.
Anna soon finds herself facing down an opponent unlike any she’s taken on before—not another superhero, but someone like her…someone much more the Draft’s Chief Marketing Officer. This isn’t a test of physical prowess, but ideas, and as the fight spirals deeper and deeper, with new foes popping up every day—she’ll need more than just her superpower—data research—to keep ascending through the supervillain ranks.
It’s guerrilla ad warfare, and the Auditor might have finally met her match.
Anna, better known to superheroes as the Auditor, has carved out a name for herself. Any hero unlucky enough to cross her path knows her potential and powers. Surely, success should taste she has an incredible job with lots of perks, and her boss will literally annihilate anyone who crosses her, and her greatest enemy, the former hero Supercollider, has been utterly defeated and literally ground to a pulp.
But Anna still has her sights set on a greater destroying the Draft, the organization that makes, trains, and manages the world’s most powerful superheroes. These “heroes” have shown time and time again that they do more harm than good, and now is the time to stop the damage at its source.
Yet all is not well for the Auditor and her fellow evildoers. Her employer, Leviathan—the world’s most feared supervillain—is not coping well with Supercollider’s defeat at someone else’s hands. Moreover, her unlikely ally and unexpected friend, Quantum Entanglement, has vanished without a trace, leaving Anna to examine all the ways they deceived each other. Tension and uncertainty fill the air, and fear that this moment of triumph is about to crumble looms over all of them.
Anna soon finds herself facing down an opponent unlike any she’s taken on before—not another superhero, but someone like her…someone much more the Draft’s Chief Marketing Officer. This isn’t a test of physical prowess, but ideas, and as the fight spirals deeper and deeper, with new foes popping up every day—she’ll need more than just her superpower—data research—to keep ascending through the supervillain ranks.
It’s guerrilla ad warfare, and the Auditor might have finally met her match.
368 pages, Paperback
Expected publication August 12, 2025
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January 11, 2023I don't even need to know what this book will be about - you're promising me more-book in the Hench world? that's all I need to know. Give it to me.
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May 20, 2024Expected publication October 24, 2023
heavy breathing
Update: Expected publication October 1, 2024
Maaaaaan! I'm willing to wait for quality though
Update 5/20/2024
Noticed Amazon has the title listed as "Villain."
As we all know, the real villain is pivot tables. I assume the Auditor will have many worthy fights ahead of her in this novel.
heavy breathing
Update: Expected publication October 1, 2024
Maaaaaan! I'm willing to wait for quality though
Update 5/20/2024
Noticed Amazon has the title listed as "Villain."
As we all know, the real villain is pivot tables. I assume the Auditor will have many worthy fights ahead of her in this novel.
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February 27, 2024GIVE IT TO ME WHY AM I STILL WAITING
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January 3, 2023hmmmmmMMMMMM? Hench sequel? I am very intrigued…
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January 21, 2024please i will give you my firstborn child for this book i beg of you
please … i can’t wait until October
please … i can’t wait until October
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July 30, 2023this book is going to satisfy every piece of my soul I can feel it (in the meantime, I will sob until September 2024 because it’s not in my hands)
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March 7, 2023I am. Very. Looking forward to this.
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September 3, 2024i'm literally only halfway through hench and i'm already foaming at the mouth for this sequel!!!!!! evil queer women who love to analyze and strategize we RISE <333333
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April 28, 2023Two words - fuck yes.
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May 5, 2023I NEED THIS SO MUCH
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August 29, 2023I will be checking Edelweiss and Netgalley every week til I can finally read this. So so so excited!
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December 27, 2023update 12/27/23: i’m reading the assistant to the villain rn bc i thought it could fill the hench shaped hole in my heart. it is in fact making me miss hench more and more. i need this sequel so bad to cope pls pls pls i’m this close to rereading hench now bc i miss it sm💀
GIVE IT TO ME NOWWWWWW. please
GIVE IT TO ME NOWWWWWW. please
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April 2, 2024I hate that Assistant to the Villain has been attached to this book because that one was pretty bad (very juvenile, definitely should've been Young Adult) and Hench was ridiculously amazing, I loved it so much. I don't know who made that decision but they're not even remotely on the same level; it's like mentioning Twilight when recommending Anne Rice or Dracula, just because they all have vampires. Hopefully it gets removed from the official promotions later, but probably not unfortunately. Very much looking forward to Right Hand!
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December 3, 2023Why am I just now learning about this!!? I need to read this now
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December 17, 2023HENCH SEQUEL?!!!!??!!
ooohhh 2024 is gonna be good
ooohhh 2024 is gonna be good
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December 29, 2023I’ve reread Hench more times than I can count - and now you’re telling me there’s going to be a sequel??
Three words: Sign me up!
And it’s less than a year away, too!
Three words: Sign me up!
And it’s less than a year away, too!
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April 16, 2024omgosh! so excited. been waiting for this for so long
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April 28, 2024As someone who works on the data side of advertising i can’t wait for this 😭
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August 20, 2024Do I hardly remember book 1? Yes. However, I distinctly remember thinking that this idea could spawn an excellent sequel. I think this calls for a reread of Hench!
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