Super Powereds: Year One

 Fiction by Drew Hayes

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In a universe where superheroes are real but rare, people are divided up into three categories: Normals, Supers, and Powereds. Normals are normal people (duh); Supers are people with super abilities they can control; Powereds are people with super abilities they can't control. Super HEROES are supers who have been extensively trained and certified by the government to perform heroic deeds, and they have secret identities.

This system means Supers are special and Powereds are freaks. But science has recently learned a way to give Powereds control over their abilities, thus making them into Super Powereds (hence the title.) The government is starting with a select group of Powereds experimentally to see if they can use this technique to turn useless and possibly dangerous Powereds into superheroes. The story is about these five people, who gain control of their powers and try to train into certified heroes.

Okay, so we have in this universe training grounds for supers to become heroes; it's pretty much college on steroids. Here is year one of their four-year journey.

This is a lot of set up in my explanation, but the author does a good job incorporating all this exposition into the story and making it interesting.

This was a really good book and I will look for the Year Two book.

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