Super Powereds: Year 1
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Average rating4.1
Knowledge is power. That would be the motto of Lander University, had it not been snatched up and used to death by others long before the school was founded. For while Lander offers a full range of courses to nearly all students, it also offers a small number of specialty classes to a very select few. Lander is home to the Hero Certification Program, a curriculum designed to develop students with superhuman capabilities, commonly known as Supers, into official Heroes. Five of this year's freshmen are extra special. They have a secret aside from their abilities, one that they must guard from even their classmates. Because for every one person in the world with abilities they can control, there are three who lack such skill. These lesser beings, Powereds as they are called, have always been treated as burdens and second class citizens. Though there has been ample research in the area, no one has ever succeeded in turning a Powered into a regular human, let alone a Super. That is, until now.
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4 primary booksSuper Powereds is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2013 with contributions by Drew Hayes.
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There was a note that this was “professionally edited” ... unfortunately, the author should probably fire and/or not hire that so-called editor he used, because there were so many errors still left in –using the word ‘of' instead of ‘off' or things like ‘an victory' or ‘onto to' ... SO MANY MORE! Dear author, if you paid actual money for this to be “professionally edited” then you got scammed, no doubt about it.
Amateurish writing that was at least better than the crap that the LitRPG genre comes out with (I know they're different subgenres, just comparing). The plot was okay, I suppose, though there were numerous points I found myself rolling my eyes, especially toward the end.
In this one our kids go on to year two of their superhero education. Exams happen, fights, some parties. People outside the college are getting involved with them and big events in the outside world are influencing what happens to them.
I would say this was more of the same as the first book. I still enjoy it. I feel the writing has improved, even though there are still some awkwardly overwritten parts, they are less and less at this point.
I have one issue with it, though. It's small, but still. There are a lot of characters, all of them with their own superpower. Sometimes I really didn't remember who did what, especially because some of the skills overlap in use. One girl has siren song, another manipulates noise to attack. Which is which now? Sometimes a character gets mentioned and I don't remember what they can do, but then it turns out maybe we weren't even told yet.
