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.

As a person with disabilities who has worked with a lot of disabled children, I really wanted to like this book. There are never enough good representations of children with disabilities in books suitable for their ages. But this story isn't it. It's a rushed, somewhat chaotic story of aliens bestowing random superpowers on kids under fifteen with unforeseen consequences. While there are some early scenes of a kid with a quirky power learning to use it effectively, and a section where that kid works as a summer camp counselor for disabled kids learning to apply their powers usefully, that's where the interest and good representation ends. The rest of the book leaps forward and back in time following a couple of other characters - one of them growing into their transgender identity - through a series of improbable situations that seem only designed to squeeze in passing mentions of other discriminated-against groups rather than adequately representing any of them. I stopped caring about any of the characters after the first one was randomly killed off and there was nothing about the plot to hold my attention. This would have benefited from developmental editing and narrowing the focus to get inside the characters' inner struggles more convincingly.