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Super Powereds: Year 1 (2000)

by Drew Hayes(Favorite Author)

4.3 of 5 Votes: 1

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Fantasy

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Super Powereds

review 1: This book was absolutely hilarious!****Spoilers Ahead!****So this is your typical book aimed at young adults involving super heroes. What sets this one apart from the gross competition of books in a similar vein is that this book creates three separate tiers of gifted beings. At the top of the stack are the heroes of a type that we are perhaps most familiar with. These people are gifted, well trained, and are authorized by the government to help people wherever and whenever they can. These people are known as 'Heroes'.The second group ranked right below them is a group of people known as 'Supers'. These are basically the vast majority of people who have powers but do not have a licence or the training to be considered a Hero.Lastly, there are the 'Powereds'. These people a... morere like Supers in that they have powers, yet unlike them they are unable to control their powers. One of the best examples of this is a character who has the ability to teleport, but not only does he not have any control of where he teleports too, he can only do it when he sneezes.Now, while that is all well and good, what really makes this book interesting is that the five main characters are all Powereds, who are the guinea pigs for a new surgical procedure that turns them into Supers, and then undergo the training to become Hereos. As it turns out, this training comes in the form of a college degree, and that means that there will be (at least) four books, one for each year of the students collegiate careers. This is their freshman year, and I must say, by the end of the book there wasn't even a question about buying the second one.I highly recommend this book without reservation to anyone who is interested in some really good laughs.
review 2: This book presents a pretty great premise and the characters are genuinely interesting in a comic book sort of way – their back stories are over the top, but it’s to good effect. However, there was a lot that got in the way for me. The terrible editing was pretty distracting. I don’t mean to be a snob, but it was a crazy amount of typos. The teenagers did not talk anything like teenagers. They almost all head the same stiff speech and sounded a lot more lot very boring 40 year-olds. This was honestly my biggest gripe, because I love YA coming of age stories with a group of super powered friends, but nothing felt young about them. The side characters were also a little overwhelming and sometimes distracted from the main story. There individual problems could have been left for a little bit later on in the story.Also, the foreshadowing and mystery hints were so heavy handed I couldn't take them seriously sometimes. Character building was done in the same kinda way. While it was good, it was just written so poorly. I wanted to like the book, and I would actually really like to see where it goes, but I’d rather read a synopsis on Wikipedia. less

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