FörhandsrecensenterS.T. Blake

New York needs a superhero. But no one expected the most outrageous hero who ever hit the streets!

In the tough and gritty streets of New York’s early 70s punk scene, Kitty Hampshire is still finding her own identity. But she’s certain of one thing – she always knew she was meant to be a man. Alongside the eccentric friends she meets in NYC’s underground clubs and bars, Kitty learns about love and life and has the surgery to affirm her true gender.

Kitty becomes Kit Simmons, but mysterious forces are present in the flesh grafted onto Kit’s body. In an era of turmoil and violence, Kit finds himself endowed with bizarre superhuman abilities. But can he really protect his friends from the oppressive forces plotting against New York?

Transformer Kit is a gritty and funny LGBTQ+ superhero fantasy featuring a found family of rebels, misfits and quirky characters who will make you laugh out loud and gasp in disbelief as they fight to stay free in the big, bad, beautiful city.

Trigger warnings - Adult humour, profanity, sex references and some violence.

Readers' comments from Amazon reviews -

"Well, if you want something different, this is it. Very cleverly written, with an amazingly funny main character. As much as it is a comic style hero, with clever humour added, there’s a good story behind it too. The characters are great."

"This book is full of British-style humor. I laughed out loud in many parts. It takes place in 1972 which removes cell phones and gadgets from the story and brings a world of images to mind. I loved that! Kit’s devotion to Elz is beautiful."

After she died that time, she was frozen, waiting for the answer to crash in on her...

Lilli Ashler was an actor of limited ability who found fame in a play called A Lunatic’s Laugh. Her mediocre talent led gossips to say she must have sold her soul for success. Then she disappeared from public view.

When Lilli dies, her granddaughter, Dominique, inherits her Gothic Irish mansion. Opposite the mansion stands a notorious asylum where the writer of A Lunatic’s Laugh spent time as an inmate before he dashed his head against the wall, his blood and brains seeping into the stone. The writer’s death led to rumors he was a practitioner of black magic and that the asylum is possessed.

Now Dominique fears the asylum is somehow laying claim to her, as she begins to suspect the nightmarish bargain Lilli Ashler made for her stardom.

A Lunatic’s Laugh is a macabre family saga that delivers a unique twist on the classic haunted house story.

New York needs a hero. As usual. But is it ready for a hero as outrageously unusual as this?

In the early days of New York’s 70s punk scene, Kitty Hampshire is a young woman still finding her own identity, but she’s certain of one thing—she always knew she was meant to be a man. Kitty’s personality develops under the influence of the legendary characters she meets in NYC’s underground music scene until she has the surgery to affirm her true gender and becomes Kit Simmons.

But other forces are present in the flesh grafted onto Kit’s body, and he finds himself endowed with bizarre superhuman abilities. In an era of turmoil and violence, can Kit really stand against the oppressive forces plotting against New York?

Transformer Kit is a gritty urban fantasy with lots of humor, starring desperately romantic and unique characters who are fighting for what they believe in the big, bad, beautiful city.