Superpowers by David J Schwartz

Superpowers

by David J Schwartz

A party in a college flat in May 2001. A case of dodgy home-brewed beer. A violent storm. Next day: the mother of all hangovers. What would you do if you the morning after the night before brought a banging head, a raging thirst... Oh, and your very own superpower?

Meet the All-Stars: Harriet, Charlie, Caroline, Mary-Beth and Jack. Harriet can make herself invisible, Charlie can read your mind, Caroline can fly, and Jack, well, Jack can run faster than a speeding bullet.

Determined to become costumed crime-fighters, but baffled by the lack of super-villains to tackle, the quintet soon finds that the ramifications of their new powers are more complicated than they anticipated, and that humans (even themselves) are much more fragile than they'd realised.

Reviewed by wyvernfriend on

4 of 5 stars

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A bunch of College students drink some homebrew and develop the usual powers, invisibiliity, telepathy, flight, strength and speed. They decide to use their powers for good and find that that can be harder than ignoring the situation.

Interesting but it's pretty much been done before, still quite readable if a little predictable in parts.

Reread in 2021 and it stood up to re-reading, kept me interested. I thought there was something familiar but it was still engaging.

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