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See These Bones

The Murder of Crows, Book 1

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Some superheroes want to save the world. Damian is just hoping to save himself. In the post-Break world of superpowers, necromancy is the one gift nobody wants. Everyone knows what happens to Crows; they go mad and they go bad. That's the story of infamous mass murderers like Crimson Death, Gravedigger, and Sally Cemetery. It's also the story of David Jameson, an otherwise unremarkable man who came home one day and killed his wife, orphaning their five-year-old son, Damian.

Thirteen years later, Damian has inherited more than just grey eyes and a beak of a nose from his father. He too is a Crow, doomed to become a killer unless he can find a way to avoid the violent madness endemic to his powers. When a Finder offers enrollment at Los Angeles' Academy of Superheroes, he jumps at the chance, believing training could be the key to changing his fate. His classmates despise him, the majority of his teachers want him expelled, and his mom's ghost hasn't said a word since reappearing when he was nine, but Damian isn't the kind to give up. He's going to take control of his destiny or die in the process. It's that or end up like his father.

See These Bones is a post-apocalyptic, superhero, coming-of-age ghost story...with expletives.

©2019 Chris Tullbane (P)2020 Chris Tullbane
Coming of Age Fantasy Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Superhero Destiny Dystopian Haunted Ghost
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Gripping origin story of a dark super hero!

More adult and mature than Drew Hayes Super Powered but great for it.

I couldn't stop listening! On to the next book!

Dark superhero origin

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You know that feeling when a book is objectively good, or not specifically bad, but it's let down by the narration, pacing, or just fails to catch your interest for some reason? Then you stop listening after a while, or just sort of tune it out as background noise?

This is the opposite.

It feels a lot like some other superheroes-at-school stories, so it's nothing amazingly revolutionary, although it has a twist to that genre that looms over the plot like a muted storm cloud. The main character (spoiler) doesn't do any amazingly exciting super powered things for quite a while. And I'm honestly not sure if it's a really good writer or a great narrator.

I just couldn't stop listening. Something about it caught my interest, and I hung on every word. There was an emotion that came through the narration or writing that resonated, the plot was well paced if a little slow, the character development was well thought out, and the characters were likable. It had just enough tragedy and drama to make what was almost a generic (my first year at uni, and by the way: superpowers) story captivating, without overdoing it.

Give it a go. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

I just couldn't stop listening.

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