Secondhand Origin Stories by Lee Blauersouth
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Author: Lee Blauersouth
Links: Amazon, Goodreads
Summary: Opal has been planning to go to Chicago and join the Midwest's superhero team, the Sentinels, since she was a little kid. That dream took on a more urgent tone when her superpowered dad was unjustly arrested for protecting a neighbor from an abusive situation. Now, she wants to be a superhero not only to protect people, but to get a platform to tell the world about the injustices of the Altered Persons Bureau, the government agency for everything relating to superpowers.
But just after Opal's high school graduation, a supervillain with a jet and unclear motives attacks the downtown home of the Sentinels, and when Opal arrives, she finds a family on the brink of breaking apart. She meets a boy who's been developing secret (and illegal) brain-altering nanites right under the Sentinel's noses, another teenage superhero-hopeful who looks suspiciously like a long-dead supervillain, and the completely un-superpowered daughter of the Sentinels' leader. Can four teens on the fringes of the superhero world handle the corruption, danger, and family secrets they've unearthed?
Available in: paperback, Kindle, Audible
Genres: superhero, f/f
Notes about book/series: This was mostly character-driven. Plot-wise, not much happened.
Opal and Jaime are wlw, Issac is asexual and Yael is non-binary with xe/xyr pronouns. There's also deaf representation.
Author: Lee Blauersouth
Links: Amazon, Goodreads
Summary: Opal has been planning to go to Chicago and join the Midwest's superhero team, the Sentinels, since she was a little kid. That dream took on a more urgent tone when her superpowered dad was unjustly arrested for protecting a neighbor from an abusive situation. Now, she wants to be a superhero not only to protect people, but to get a platform to tell the world about the injustices of the Altered Persons Bureau, the government agency for everything relating to superpowers.
But just after Opal's high school graduation, a supervillain with a jet and unclear motives attacks the downtown home of the Sentinels, and when Opal arrives, she finds a family on the brink of breaking apart. She meets a boy who's been developing secret (and illegal) brain-altering nanites right under the Sentinel's noses, another teenage superhero-hopeful who looks suspiciously like a long-dead supervillain, and the completely un-superpowered daughter of the Sentinels' leader. Can four teens on the fringes of the superhero world handle the corruption, danger, and family secrets they've unearthed?
Available in: paperback, Kindle, Audible
Genres: superhero, f/f
Notes about book/series: This was mostly character-driven. Plot-wise, not much happened.
Opal and Jaime are wlw, Issac is asexual and Yael is non-binary with xe/xyr pronouns. There's also deaf representation.