So far I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve read by Drew Hayes, including Forging Hephaestus, NPCs, and the series following Fred the vampire accountant. I figured the time was right to try his other series, Super Powereds. After reading Year 1, my conclusion is only to wonder why I waited so long. I do have to day though, I can totally see the author of Forging Hepheastus in this, and a little NPCs, although I do realize Super Powereds Year 1 came out before either of those […]
Just like Thanksgiving dinner, the sides are the best part!
Corpies is a spinoff of the Super Powereds books. It fits between Super Powereds Year 2 and 3 – we hear a little bit about it in Year 3, but not much. Hershel and Roy’s father, the hero called Titan, has decided to finally get off his ass and return to hero work. He had previously left the hero business, or the Life, after a sex scandal ruined his reputation. Not only was Titan caught having sex with someone other than his wife, but it […]
I am not a gamer, but I think I might know how it works now
The premise of NPCs is not terribly original: what if when people stopped playing, the world of the D&D-like game kept moving, and the characters who aren’t actually players have independent existences. I feel like I’ve seen this sort of thing before, but at the same time, here it was still somewhat entertaining. This is not highly literary fiction one reads for the sake of being able to say one has read it; this is the kind of thing you read when you want something […]
They way this one ended, the next is going to be one hell of a show
Aw man. Trying to review this without spoilers is going to be kind of hard. We’ve entered into junior year, and things are going to be way different now! At the end of last year, Nick was far too clever for his own good, and now everyone is paying the price, in a way. We learn about everyone’s eventful summers and we see how it was an important one for each person’s growth. While we tend to focus on our main cast of characters, others […]
It’s time to step up the game
So our lovable band of misfits is back for another year at Lander University. Now that they’ve made it past freshman year they have a lot of work to do. One of the things I like is that they are realizing that they are not as powerful as they think they are. They’re strong supers, sure, but they aren’t the strongest out there, and they still have a lot to learn. Mary, for one, was seen as almost untouchable, and she gets her ass handed […]
The start of a favorite series by a favorite author
How to describe this series? It’s like Sky High meets The Incredibles meets X-Men. But better and epic and awesome! In this universe, there are normal people, Powereds, and Supers. Normal people are just that, normal. Supers have super powers, like telepathy and the ability to turn into solid steel and such. Powereds are a bit different. They have super powers, but they can’t control them. You could imagine how well that would go over in society. Our story begins with five students who are […]
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