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What Order Should You Read the Supervillain Rehabilitation Project Books?

The thing is, there is no right answer. With five separate series in the same world, I tried to write each book in a way that someone could jump right in from that starting point. If you REALLY want a list, here are four possible routes through the world.

Strict Chronological Order:

If you're a purist, you may want to read the stories in the order they occur. This is the strict timeline for ALL the books in the Supervillain Rehabilitation Project Universe (note: The DOSA Files anthology includes multiple stories set at different points in the timeline. The short story "Rethink" is technically the earliest point in the timeline, but since the stories in this collection are not essential to the whole and they all occur in different years, I don't list it as part of the timeline. You can read it at any point).

Relapsed

Reformed

Redeemed

Reborn

Refined

Blind Date with a Supervillain

Power On

Reunion

Power Play

On the Run with a Supervillain

Power Through

Power Up

Superhero For Christmas

Superhero Ever After

Captured by a Supervillain

Engaged to a Supervillain

Accidentally a Supervillain

Second Chance Superhero

Wishing on a Supervillain

Her Fake Superhero Boyfriend

Rescuing a Supervillain

Game On

The "JAKE" Route

This route was actually suggested by some of my younger readers. If you are primarily a YA reader, you may want to start with the Supervillain Rescue Project teen series. Once you do, though, you may want to continue to follow that series's lead character, Jake, through his journey into adulthood. This is the route that chases Jake through his character growth from angry young man to responsible and steady husband and father.

Power On

Power Play

Power Through

Power Up

Captured by a Supervillain

Engaged to a Supervillain

Accidentally a Supervillain

Game On

(the rest whenever you get around to them)

The "I LOVE A TWIST" Route

I'm actually not a huge "twist" writer, but there are three events that happen throughout the series that can be spoiled if you read in the "wrong" order. This is the order you can take that will provide you the most surprises.

Relapsed

Reformed

Redeemed

Reborn

Refined

Blind Date with a Supervillain

On the Run with a Supervillain

Captured by a Supervillain

Power On

Reunion

Power Play

Power Through

Power Up

Engaged to a Supervillain

Accidentally a Supervillain

(you can fit the romance books anywhere, just be sure you read Wishing on a Supervillain BEFORE Game On)

The I LOVE ROMANCE Route

So maybe you're in it JUST for the kissing books, and you don't really care about anything else. That's fine. This the route to maximize the romantic feels.

Superhero For Christmas

Superhero Ever After

Blind Date with a Supervillain

On the Run with a Supervillain

Captured by a Supervillain

Engaged to a Supervillain

Accidentally a Supervillain

Second Chance Superhero

Wishing on a Supervillain

Her Fake Superhero Boyfriend

Rescuing a Supervillain

(go back and hit the YA and main series if you feel like something less kissy/kissy)

Faith in My Superhero Books

The Supervillain Rehabilitation Project universe is set in modern America. When I started the series, I chose to make the main character, Prism, a follower/believer in my faith, Christianity, and Fade on a path towards it.

The thing is, as the world expanded, I started chasing downside characters whose faith was not my own--or who even lacked faith altogether--but who still had a story.

I'll admit, there is a temptation to just "convert" every character I love (which is most of them) to Christianity but that's not really how the world works. A few characters do get a faith journey (I chose to have Shawn and Juliet Park become Christians--mainly because I knew who I wanted Juliet to marry and I didn't think that character would be served marrying outside his faith), but for the most part, if a character doesn't start out with that foundation, I continue to write them as what they were when they first stumbled into my world.

It's not always easy writing a character outside of my worldview, and I tend to see what I do as "portraying" other worldviews rather than "promoting" them. It's important to me to approach them honestly rather than make them easy caricatures or object lessons or anything other than a "real" person (admitting they are by nature, fictional).

Thankfully, I've often had help. I had readers who consulted with me when I introduced Wildfyre with his LDS faith/background and others who walked me through Joel and Rachel Blum's Judaism. The most common, though, is ending up with characters I would consider "secular." They don't have a particular faith. They often make moral choices I wouldn't condone or espouse viewpoints I don't share.

For instance, I don't believe in sex outside of marriage, but based on the viewpoints of a lot of my characters, they would not have the same "hang-ups." I generally will STILL put barriers between them and "hooking up" so I don't write about them doing so, but I'll acknowledge if they have pasts where this would've been a thing.

The thing is, I don't think Christianity is well-served with fiction that pretends other viewpoints don't exist or only portrays them as a contrast. We're living in this world and that includes interacting with people outside our faith. I have people I very much love who don't follow my worldview, and I never want them to see themselves in my book as punching bags or laughingstock.

Now there are some viewpoints I probably couldn't portray. A truly militant atheist or someone following outright satanic beliefs... I don't think I could handle that darkness... but for people of faiths I do interact with and have seen the humanity in them even if I disagree with their spiritual, theological, or philosophical conclusions, I never want to dehumanize them.

Because of this, I'm definitely NOT writing what I would consider Christian fiction. Ironically, my current project, Rescuing a Supervillain, has some of the strongest faith/Christian themes in it, probably closer to Reunion (which is the only book where I've ever written out a conversion scene). It's a weird little niche I've carved myself because I have way more religion in my works than you usually find in "general market" fiction but other stuff that makes my work a square peg to the round hole of Christian fiction as a market.

But overall, I like where I've landed. I know I have readers of various faiths/non-faiths, and while I think the majority of my followers/readers are Christian, I think they know not to expect me to stay to the expected for that.

Anyway, long ramble but just a general statement of how I handle this for those who are following me.

Where does the SVR Take place...?

All over really. If you're curious check out this map with pins indicating where various stories take place:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1qYftXH-WI1VfB73FZOj1wU0lLR5NIHA&usp=sharing