Goodreads Synopsis:
After the Earth survived annihilation from an asteroid which was destroyed by a group of heroic astronauts, the resultant meteor shower turned Youngstown, Ohio, into a Level 5 impact zone. After a Columbine-like incident in which a superpowered teenager exploded and killed other youngsters, the Foresight Corporation took over Youngstown to find and regulate any other teenagers with emerging powers.

Kayla Tate has returned to Youngstown because her parents are scientists for Foresight. Kayla has reunited with her childhood friend, Jonah Watkins, a young man with Down syndrome. Kayla and Jonah are learning about each other again, as a mysterious new superhuman named Cosmosis has become the Internet sensation as the hero of Youngstown. Kayla discovers that Cosmosis . . . is Jonah! Based on his favorite comic book hero, Jonah is using the secret powers he gained from the meteor shower to help people and fight bad guys. To protect Jonah, and discover the sinister mysteries of her town, Kayla uses her own powers gained from a meteor fragment to fight alongside Jonah as the hero Amina.

When Amina and Cosmosis discover that young superpowered people are being kidnapped and trained to become Earth’s best line of defense against the possibility of an alien invasion, the two teenage heroes use their abilities to stop Foresight, all the while helping each other navigate through resentment, naivete, and the awkward steps of rekindling their friendship.

My Review:
I received a copy of this from Netgalley and Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.

I've been reading a lot of superhero comics lately. Superb tells the story of the illegal "enhanced" people, who are immediately taken away somewhere to be quarantined by armed guards when they're discovered. It follows a girl named Kayla, who is always helping out her friend Jonah with his bullies, while she goes to school. Their lives are very different, Kayla always alone at home because of her parents busy work schedule, and Jonah taking care of his dad. Enhanced people are really people with powers, and mutations, and sometimes they reach critically dangerous levels and lost control. That's why the people without the mutations don't want to risk it, although they deal with in an inhumane way. This forces enhanced people to hide themselves.

It also follows a masked superhero named Cosmosis, who can shoot a telekinetic beam from his eyes. This allows him to do pretty much whatever he wants, and although most of what he does is harmless, it still worries the authorities. Life after fallout has dramatically changed how the world works, and I'm interested in learning more about the world and its inhabitants.

Overall I really enjoyed reading this and definitely want to check out the next one.

Here's a link to the book on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1941302408/r...

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