Super Powereds: Year 1
by Drew Hayes
Narrator
Kyle McCarley
Duration
26h
Series
1 / 4
Released
2016
About This Audiobook
Five freshmen enter Lander University's Hero Certification Program sharing one dangerous secret: they used to be Powereds — people whose abilities fire uncontrollably, the superhero world's untouchable caste — until an experimental procedure gave them control. Vince absorbs and redirects energy, Nick is a luck manipulator playing the fool, Mary hears thoughts, Hershel transforms into his indestructible alter ego Roy, and Alice flies. Drew Hayes writes found-family dorm dynamics better than almost anyone, and the long game is elite — throwaway lines from year one detonate three books later. It's a college story as much as a supers story, which means party arcs and relationship drama between HCP gauntlets; that pacing is the common gripe, along with Kyle McCarley's female voices drifting toward parody. Minor stuff against 26 hours that fly by. 13.4K ratings, 4.7 average, complete at four books, and the landing actually sticks. It's my comfort relisten, full stop.
