This is much darker than either of the first books in the 2 series. Jake Hunter, AKA Hunter, Dark Hunter, has escaped from Diablo Island, a high security prison for supervillains, and is now wanted by both the Council of Evil and the Heroes.
His family's memory of him has been altered, he still exists but they can't see or remember him and he wants revenge. He is discovering that life as a supervillain is difficult and he still struggles with the idea of killing people and yet doesn't hesitate to hurt them to further his own purposes. Reflecting on how his life has changed in such a short time, Jake "remembered star-gazing with his dad many winters ago, before he'd grown up into...into the obnoxious, ungrateful bully that he'd somehow associated with being 'cool'. He wondered where his life had all gone wrong. Ordinarily he would have blamed his parents, but now he couldn't bring himself to. He was a product of his own mistakes, and he had to live with that. (p 148 Dark Hunter)
The world is in danger because Hero.com's website has been affected by a virus and cannot be accessed, so villains are thriving in the absence of heroes to fight and the Primes (heroes born with superpowers) are unwilling to put themselves on the front-line. There are some quite violent scenes especially where the villain Chromosome is involved.
There are aspects of this book that do show Jake having a conscience that is being pricked from time to time. He has learned to appreciate his family more and is disturbed greatly that they no longer know him. This is his driving force as the books continue and he is seeing the villains in a different light as he sees some who have no concern for any others but themselves. I found this book harder to read and continue to hope for resolution (a happy ending?) as the series progresses.
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