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Rise Of The Heroes (2008)

by Andy Briggs(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0192755439 (ISBN13: 9780192755438)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Oxford University Press

series

Hero.Com

review 1: This books starts off with a group of friends named Lorna, Emily, Toby and Pete who lived pretty normal lives. But one day, during a storm lightning hit their computer and the website turns to a website named Hero.com with a weird irl...The group presses a button on that website with a picture of a stick figure on it and suddenly, they have super powers! As they look on, they see a job board and they go off to stop a robbery and this person named Doc Tempest is acting all superior and creepy...Until they steal Emily and Toby's mother. Can the supers save her and find out what the heck is going on?I chose this book because I was almost finished reading the Villian.Net series (missing book 4) and I wanted to check out the Hero side of things.I finished this book because I th... moreought it was pretty interesting and it kept hooking me back.I recommend this book to anyone who likes stories that bring a lot of action into it.
review 2: Four friends become involved in a fight against an evil villain, Doc Tempest, when Toby and Lorna's computer is affected by a lightning strike and displays a web site, hero.com, where they download superhero powers and choose "jobs." This seems like fun until Doc Tempest creates a storm that destroys Toby and Lorna's house and he kidnaps their mother Sarah without her insulin. Toby, Lorna, Pete and Emily salvage the hard drive from the destroyed computer, and try to figure out how to rescue Sarah. Kids looking for modern, high-tech, action-adventures like the Anthony Horowitz and Charlie Higson series will like the Hero.com books. The several mini-lectures about Internet safety and web site security as well as several instances where the action is paused while Pete contemplates the temptation of the stolen money or gold as a fix for his family problems interrupt the flow of the story in an annoying way, and the situations and superpowers are all familiar from some other superhero story or comic or another. less

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