Persevere
by Lia Ramsay
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Pub Date Dec 02 2024 | Archive Date Jan 04 2025
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Description
With great weakness comes great overcoming...
When aliens arrive on Earth to grant superpowers, Dave Lame finds out that the powers are not always what you'd hope for. Sometimes, the powers may seem like weaknesses, and here is where wise lessons are needed. Lessons that will help not only him and his family, but other children who need to know that they, too, have a place in this world.
But when new evil aliens arrive, the obstacles threaten to become overwhelming. Will our superheroes give in or persevere?
Featured Reviews
I was intrigued by this one when I saw it and I'm glad I decided to read it. I love superheroes and superpowers so this was right up my alley. It's divided into three separate stories essentially, in the first we follow Dave's family when aliens bring superpowers to the world, in the next we follow his son Erik as enemy aliens show up and lastly we follow Colin, a trans boy who finds himself in the past.
This was fast paced with quite likeable characters and an interesting question of, what if the superpowers you get are actually not that great? I would have loved to see more and would happily read full length versions of each characters story. There are crossover points of course but it would be nice to have more of everything.
I felt the weakest part of the story was Colin's tale, parts of it were great but I feel like the end of it was a bit rushed.
I would definitely love to see this in a graphic novel, I think it's the perfect book to do that and would go really well. It deals with gender and disability that works with the story and doesn't feel like an add on to please the audience.
I'd be happy to read more from this author and look forward to seeing what's next.