Super Powereds: Year 1
Super Powereds, Book 1
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Super Powereds: Year 1
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Narrated by:
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Kyle McCarley
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By:
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Drew Hayes
About this listen
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.
For every one person in the world with abilities they can control, there are three who lack such skill. These lesser super 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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If you're looking for something different from the usual teen friendly bog standard Super hero literature, I beg you to give this one ago. It doesn't disappoint.
As for the audiobook version, I really liked the voice actor who read the book. Many times I'll buy hear an audiobook if something I've read and find that the voice I hear doesn't match in my head, but Drew's style of writing is so individualised that they way it's read almost completely matches how I've read it in the past.
A great read or listen I can't recommend strongly enough!
Brilliant Story
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great story irritating narrator.
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What made the experience of listening to Super Powereds: Year 1 the most enjoyable?
The characters (I am particularly fond of Nick), they all have their own distinct personalities, the only issue (for me) is the sheer number of them, it can be a little tricky to keep track of who can do what.What other book might you compare Super Powereds: Year 1 to, and why?
There are some obvious parallels between this and the Harry Potter series, both are about young people learning to master special abilities, although the character in Super Powered are much older and tend to swear more, and be more concerned with adult activities, such as sex and alcohol.What aspect of Kyle McCarley’s performance might you have changed?
Kyle generally does a good job, however the sheer number of characters forces him to reuse a couple of voices, which can get a little confusing, particularly when he reuses a very distinctive voice.Any additional comments?
It's well worth a read, and as the series progresses the writing style improves.Enjoyable
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amazing story for any superhero fan
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The story is third person with a huge first person flare. I felt it would have done better in first person if not for the continued jump in perspective and countless characters.
Its drawn out too much with mundane things, and the big-bads at the end had no foreshadowing, or did, but the long-winded stretch of tediousness made anything like that instantly missed.
Of the main 5 characters I liked them all except for Nick as I felt he was badly written and too Stu like without any likeable qualities.
My favourite characters had to be Thomas, Claudia (I think that's the healer girl's name, she wasn't in it much), and Vince.
I would only really recommend if you have some spare time and nothing else you're interested in reading and love superheroes. More so if you have Prime Reading. You can get the eBook for free and then only pay £2.99 for this audiobook.
Over all the slow moving plot and terribly tedious narrator let this book down a lot. His voice is just so boring and unenthused. If the narrator doesn't invest in the story they sound bored and uninterested, and that can ruin even the greatest of books.
Not bad.
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