#Superpowered drew hayes series#

The dialog and reactions of the characters feel natural with no one character feeling left out or completely different each time you see them. The author’s writing of character interactions never betrays itself, abruptly proclaiming “This is a moment of character development”.

These developments are quite cliché in stories, but its not the final product that makes the book special, its the journey (Which is another cliché, I know). Vince learns to embrace his powers, Nick becomes less jaded and develops deep connections with people, Hershel and Roy develop a healthy relationship and mindset towards each other, Alice throws out her ideas of eliteness and works on herself as a person, Mary uses her in-depth knowledge of how people think to become a therapist and be there for people instead of running away from them, and overall they develop close ties to one other. The final product of the character’s development is not too different from what you would expect, given their initial descriptions. Spoiler Warning next part contains minor spoilers in character development While there are other characters in the story with their own unique set of powers, backstories, and internal/external conflict that gets fully developed and explored throughout the ~180 hour book series, the most apparent character development is that of the main characters. Vince is scared of himself and what he can do, Hershel and Roy have a broken relationship even though they share the same body, Mary can’t socialize with people normally and is too scared to use her powers and discover what people are actually thinking, and Nick and Alice both try to play dumb with the rest as they only see them as annoyances or tools that can be used. This group obviously has a lot of issues that make themselves very apparent as the book opens. The characters include Vince, a former “wanderer” who is afraid of his own catastrophic powers, Nick, a genius, sly, con-artist who prefers his own skill over anyone or anything, Hershel, a nerdy boy who’s powers give him an extremely tough, powerful, and arrogant split persona named Roy who takes over his body causing him to feel useless as himself, Alice, a extremely rich and pampered girl who thinks that only a small group including her are part of the elite members of society, and Mary, a telepath/ telekinetic so powerful that she had to separate herself from society so she wasn’t constantly bombarded with everybody within a mile’s thoughts. In the story you follow five former “powereds” through college, people who were born with super powers but couldn’t control them, however this group was put through an experimental procedure to help them control their powers with the condition that they would be required to enter a college hero-training program. This is especially true for out main characters and their superpowers.

#Superpowered drew hayes series#

The incredibly imaginative way the author put these powers against each other as well has have them support each other throughout the series keeps battle scenes elaborate, tense, and keeps them from feeling played out. These powers vary completely from person to person with a humongous selection of powers being presented throughout the series, from people who can fly to people who can teleport, from people who have transformative powers to people who can control gravity, from people whose power is too weak to do anything to people who have powers on the level on nukes.

While these people with superpowers are rare, they have made a name for themselves as superheroes, facing off against mainly super powered terrorist organizations or street gangs. Superpowereds by Drew Hayes is a book about five college freshmen who live in a world filled with superpowers.