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Apex
Things just got weird in Ault, Colorado.
Jack Peterson and his friends, Scott and Melanie are typical seventeen year olds growing up in the middle of dirt-country, USA. With the discovery of an alien sphere, their world changes forever. When it erupts with a blue alien mist, they wake up to discover they each have a unique ability. Jack can teleport, Melanie has telekinesis, and Scott can erect invisible force fields. The couple that owns the land that the sphere landed on are also affected. Dan, the husband, can emit heat from his hands and his wife Molly is super strong.
There's no way they can know that a race of friendly aliens subjected them to this to help them protect Earth from the evil aliens who are coming to eradicate humanity. They are pawns in a galactic struggle, but sometimes pawns can become kings. Can this group of unprepared misfits protect the entire planet from an advanced alien species that has never failed?
Book #1 of the Super Earthlings vs. Alien Invaders series
Jack Peterson and his friends, Scott and Melanie are typical seventeen year olds growing up in the middle of dirt-country, USA. With the discovery of an alien sphere, their world changes forever. When it erupts with a blue alien mist, they wake up to discover they each have a unique ability. Jack can teleport, Melanie has telekinesis, and Scott can erect invisible force fields. The couple that owns the land that the sphere landed on are also affected. Dan, the husband, can emit heat from his hands and his wife Molly is super strong.
There's no way they can know that a race of friendly aliens subjected them to this to help them protect Earth from the evil aliens who are coming to eradicate humanity. They are pawns in a galactic struggle, but sometimes pawns can become kings. Can this group of unprepared misfits protect the entire planet from an advanced alien species that has never failed?
Book #1 of the Super Earthlings vs. Alien Invaders series
- GenresScience Fiction
189 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 29, 2013
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
April 21, 2021
A lot of the reviews here mention shallow characterization, plot etc. but I feel they miss the point of this book, I think the author intended to write a comic book, and he succeeded.
If you want to go back to the rainy days of your childhood reading through the stack of comic books at your friend's house then this is the book for you. On the other hand if you are looking for deep meanings and characterization maybe you should pass on this one.
A fun read.
If you want to go back to the rainy days of your childhood reading through the stack of comic books at your friend's house then this is the book for you. On the other hand if you are looking for deep meanings and characterization maybe you should pass on this one.
A fun read.
December 2, 2023
Interesting - aimed at older teens,. But still good
PDF only that I could find, but worth the read
PDF only that I could find, but worth the read
April 10, 2025
Easy read
Great book. Simple read. Easy better then twighlight. Curious how the rest of the series goes. I will probably read the rest of series.
Great book. Simple read. Easy better then twighlight. Curious how the rest of the series goes. I will probably read the rest of series.
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August 18, 2014Well I gave up on the book because
1) There is the bad guy AKA the General he has been trying to kill you since you gained superpower. Suddenly aliens invade and the you decide that you don't want to kill the general WTF.
Am i being too blood thirsty?? seriously just kill the SOB and go save the world rather than suddenly turning into friends.
Since I did not finish the book hence no rating.
1) There is the bad guy AKA the General he has been trying to kill you since you gained superpower. Suddenly aliens invade and the you decide that you don't want to kill the general WTF.
Am i being too blood thirsty?? seriously just kill the SOB and go save the world rather than suddenly turning into friends.
Since I did not finish the book hence no rating.
December 17, 2014
The way the US Military is depicted is a travesty. The characters in the story are a bunch of dopes, losers, dimwits, and numbnuts. Even the aliens are a bunch of incompetents, which is probably just as well or the story would have ended much sooner. I won't get nasty and suggest that might have been a good idea - oh wait, I guess I just did indirectly. I had higher hopes for this book and suppose I feel disappointed.
January 21, 2016
It was good, but a bit light on description and the third person omniscient viewpoint felt a bit like a cheat sometimes. I enjoyed that it tried to step outside the normal "teens get super powers" trope.
July 19, 2014
deeply unsatisfactory
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