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Psionic Elite
He’s not here to save the world. He’s here to save his girl.
Ward Moreno never wanted to become a soldier. But after a foreign nation blew up his hometown, he enlisted in a corporate army, endured agonizing human experiments, and became the most powerful psionic soldier on the planet... only to learn he was fighting for the wrong side.
Now he’s come to the city of his enemies to save his childhood friend from the men who made him into a monster. Yet as he searches the city for her, Ward is drawn into the simmering conflicts of Valor’s Landing. He soon finds himself surrounded by multiple beautiful women who also need his help.
To protect them, Ward must tear apart the corporation that betrayed him and anyone else that gets in his way. But if he can keep these women safe, he may finally find a home... and the love he left behind.
Ward Moreno never wanted to become a soldier. But after a foreign nation blew up his hometown, he enlisted in a corporate army, endured agonizing human experiments, and became the most powerful psionic soldier on the planet... only to learn he was fighting for the wrong side.
Now he’s come to the city of his enemies to save his childhood friend from the men who made him into a monster. Yet as he searches the city for her, Ward is drawn into the simmering conflicts of Valor’s Landing. He soon finds himself surrounded by multiple beautiful women who also need his help.
To protect them, Ward must tear apart the corporation that betrayed him and anyone else that gets in his way. But if he can keep these women safe, he may finally find a home... and the love he left behind.
484 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 15, 2024
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December 1, 2024
I admit I enjoyed the epilogue:)
This was a pretty good romp. I always enjoy overpowered heroes and this one is fantastic. Conscious of his power and not a murder hobo.
This was a pretty good romp. I always enjoy overpowered heroes and this one is fantastic. Conscious of his power and not a murder hobo.
January 29, 2025
Just annoying
I admit I couldn’t finish this. I made it half way before I was just ready for the “best friend” to be gone. She is the epitome of spoiled princess. Despite nearly dying and being saved by the MC at a young age, she is still just a spoiled princess playing guerrilla fighter and is a complete moron. She’s so caught up in her own bs that she treated MC like crap despite him saving her life multiple times.
MC was a complete simp too. Extremely pathetic, literally the strongest person on the planet, well according to him, but still takes shit from the idiots around him for no reason. He’s a war veteran killer, but still lets the idiot cell leader treat him like that. I just couldn’t handle the level of stupid being represented here.
I admit I couldn’t finish this. I made it half way before I was just ready for the “best friend” to be gone. She is the epitome of spoiled princess. Despite nearly dying and being saved by the MC at a young age, she is still just a spoiled princess playing guerrilla fighter and is a complete moron. She’s so caught up in her own bs that she treated MC like crap despite him saving her life multiple times.
MC was a complete simp too. Extremely pathetic, literally the strongest person on the planet, well according to him, but still takes shit from the idiots around him for no reason. He’s a war veteran killer, but still lets the idiot cell leader treat him like that. I just couldn’t handle the level of stupid being represented here.
April 20, 2025
Good worldbuilding, fun action. Marred by how stupid the main character is and the questionable decision by the author to include in the romance someone who deliberately uses mind control on the MC. And this is portrayed as somehow sweet or romantic, and not a HUGE, glaring red flag that should lead her to be imprisoned for life for repeated rapes.
December 29, 2025
I have to agree with Claytons review. This was frustrating to read and I did not make it past the 60% mark.
So here is the situation:
Ward is a psionic elite. Some kind of psychic super solder. He was tricked by the military of the story world. They are at war with an alien race with psychic powers. The military caused a lot of harm for both humans and allies, but put all the blame on the aliens and used this to recruit many jung naive soldiers - Ward amongst them. He volunteered for a special program in which they tried to give humans the same psyonic powers as the aliens.
Many participated, all of them got imprisoned and underwent torturous treatment, only Ward survived. His genetic code is key for the military to achieve their goal. However he escaped and destroyed all data, going incognito for years. Under drugs during his torture he told his captors about the only person he cares about - childhood friend Sydney.
So he decides to find her and bring her somewhere safe. She in the meantime joined a small human rebellion group, fighting against the military. Ward warns her that if she got captured, he would willingly offer himself up to free her, thus she is in danger and a danger to the whole world. When Ward finds her the leader of said group is planning to free prisoners and blow up a factory in their city, despite having no skill or experience in leading such operations. Even worse, his inside source is about to betray them and they want to do all this without killing anyone. Ward, as a war veteran knows all this and warns them multiple times, but still decides to go along with this plan, because Sydney wants to prove something and insists she go.
I wont go into details or further spoilers, but suffice to say that throughout the whole book Sydney tried her best to get captured by repeatedly making the wrong decision.
The plot is really frustrating. So many obviously stupid decisions. It would have been easy to make the antagonists more competent and the protagonist less incompetent and still get to a similar end point, but its like author wasn’t even trying.
So here is the situation:
Ward is a psionic elite. Some kind of psychic super solder. He was tricked by the military of the story world. They are at war with an alien race with psychic powers. The military caused a lot of harm for both humans and allies, but put all the blame on the aliens and used this to recruit many jung naive soldiers - Ward amongst them. He volunteered for a special program in which they tried to give humans the same psyonic powers as the aliens.
Many participated, all of them got imprisoned and underwent torturous treatment, only Ward survived. His genetic code is key for the military to achieve their goal. However he escaped and destroyed all data, going incognito for years. Under drugs during his torture he told his captors about the only person he cares about - childhood friend Sydney.
So he decides to find her and bring her somewhere safe. She in the meantime joined a small human rebellion group, fighting against the military. Ward warns her that if she got captured, he would willingly offer himself up to free her, thus she is in danger and a danger to the whole world. When Ward finds her the leader of said group is planning to free prisoners and blow up a factory in their city, despite having no skill or experience in leading such operations. Even worse, his inside source is about to betray them and they want to do all this without killing anyone. Ward, as a war veteran knows all this and warns them multiple times, but still decides to go along with this plan, because Sydney wants to prove something and insists she go.
I wont go into details or further spoilers, but suffice to say that throughout the whole book Sydney tried her best to get captured by repeatedly making the wrong decision.
The plot is really frustrating. So many obviously stupid decisions. It would have been easy to make the antagonists more competent and the protagonist less incompetent and still get to a similar end point, but its like author wasn’t even trying.
November 19, 2024
This book was pretty strong, but some continuity errors made for some awkward moments.
The MC is a former super soldier with psionic abilities he went through hell to gain during a war that is now over. Having switched sides after realizing the reason he was fighting for turns out to have been bogus, he now just wants to help his childhood friend be safe from his former employers. So he goes to find her, and finds a lot more than he bargained for.
The harem aspect was pretty much women throwing themselves at him, although his childhood friend makes him wait. While that childhood friend and the hybrid woman he rescues and is barely on screen are different, the other two have very similar personalities. The MC puts zero effort into winning these women. He has only been intimate with one by the end of the book, but there are 3 others all ready to go if he even looks at them with a raised eyebrow.
There are some continuity errors that subtracted from some of the scenes. Stuff like the MC thinking they've exhausted every last iota of their psionic powers, and a few sentences (and seconds) later, he uses the last bit of that same energy to damage a helicopter made the thing be cheesy.
I will read the next book in this series, but I am a bit leery on how little effort the MC is putting into getting a harem.
The MC is a former super soldier with psionic abilities he went through hell to gain during a war that is now over. Having switched sides after realizing the reason he was fighting for turns out to have been bogus, he now just wants to help his childhood friend be safe from his former employers. So he goes to find her, and finds a lot more than he bargained for.
The harem aspect was pretty much women throwing themselves at him, although his childhood friend makes him wait. While that childhood friend and the hybrid woman he rescues and is barely on screen are different, the other two have very similar personalities. The MC puts zero effort into winning these women. He has only been intimate with one by the end of the book, but there are 3 others all ready to go if he even looks at them with a raised eyebrow.
There are some continuity errors that subtracted from some of the scenes. Stuff like the MC thinking they've exhausted every last iota of their psionic powers, and a few sentences (and seconds) later, he uses the last bit of that same energy to damage a helicopter made the thing be cheesy.
I will read the next book in this series, but I am a bit leery on how little effort the MC is putting into getting a harem.
February 20, 2025
Overall a pretty good psiberpunk book. Yes, I didn't spell that right, but the dystopian sci-fi theme and the MC's psionic powers reminded me of some of those old William Gibson books.
It's really closer to an urban fantasy book in many ways, as the psionics are indestinguishable from magic. Looks to be turning into a harem series, or at least it will if the MC gets his head out of his ass.
What loses it a star for me is the inconsistency of the MC. He oscillates between hard-core SF Operator and blushing schoolboy who is too shocked to accept his new reality. We'll see if he gets a clue in book 2
It's really closer to an urban fantasy book in many ways, as the psionics are indestinguishable from magic. Looks to be turning into a harem series, or at least it will if the MC gets his head out of his ass.
What loses it a star for me is the inconsistency of the MC. He oscillates between hard-core SF Operator and blushing schoolboy who is too shocked to accept his new reality. We'll see if he gets a clue in book 2
November 29, 2024
Could have been great, but watching all the similarities was distracting.
Would give it less than 3, but we don't punish authors. But seriously, this is dang near blatant. Let's call it borrowing from a well-known video game. There were few new things here and there, but the only thing that really felt original was the afterword.
But that just proves the cribbing was unnecessary.
Might skip this series.
Seriously, my guy, stage name Bullet? Why not give him a bar and an armcannon, too??
Where's the mako?
Would give it less than 3, but we don't punish authors. But seriously, this is dang near blatant. Let's call it borrowing from a well-known video game. There were few new things here and there, but the only thing that really felt original was the afterword.
But that just proves the cribbing was unnecessary.
Might skip this series.
Seriously, my guy, stage name Bullet? Why not give him a bar and an armcannon, too??
Where's the mako?
December 9, 2024
Good series so far!
I had seen this back when it first came out and it looked like something I would enjoy. Saw that number two would be out in January so I told myself that I would wait for when both were available. Yeah, that lasted for about three weeks, one day I decided to read one chapter and then save it. Two days go by and I had read the whole thing. So much for saving it, now I can’t wait till January.
I had seen this back when it first came out and it looked like something I would enjoy. Saw that number two would be out in January so I told myself that I would wait for when both were available. Yeah, that lasted for about three weeks, one day I decided to read one chapter and then save it. Two days go by and I had read the whole thing. So much for saving it, now I can’t wait till January.
November 17, 2024
Beautiful and nostalgic.
This was a well written book that brings back a warm feeling of nostalgia. Danny is a great author who does a great job of brining together a well written story and well developed characters. I loved all the characters and their dialogue and interactions. This book just made me happy to read. Can’t wait for the next.
This was a well written book that brings back a warm feeling of nostalgia. Danny is a great author who does a great job of brining together a well written story and well developed characters. I loved all the characters and their dialogue and interactions. This book just made me happy to read. Can’t wait for the next.
April 25, 2025
The other characters are all morons and it's only the MC that has a lick of common sense. It's pretty annoying. The women all threw themselves at the MC pretty much instantly (no joke) so that was also annoying. Still, the action was decent, the plot was fine, and things were generally ok. But not good enough to keep me entertained - I don't think I'll continue the series.
November 30, 2024
Awesome!!!
Wow, what a great beginning to a new fantasy series!!! Lots of crazy battles,some really good world building which I expected and great characters!!! I can't wait to see what comes next!!!!
Wow, what a great beginning to a new fantasy series!!! Lots of crazy battles,some really good world building which I expected and great characters!!! I can't wait to see what comes next!!!!
March 9, 2025
Excellent read!!!
For me it was a rough beginning. Difficult to become interested in with the flow and story but I truly enjoyed this book and I am looking forward to the next books in the series!!!
For me it was a rough beginning. Difficult to become interested in with the flow and story but I truly enjoyed this book and I am looking forward to the next books in the series!!!
November 16, 2024
Fantastic new series!
Danny's books have gotten better and better, and this one is a prime example. I thought the story and characters were amazing. I'm excited about the next book!
Danny's books have gotten better and better, and this one is a prime example. I thought the story and characters were amazing. I'm excited about the next book!
November 17, 2024
Interesting story and people, looking forward to see how the story goes
November 18, 2024
Good start
Is good for what it is has a nice premise start could have used a bit of work as it was a little uh what's happening
Is good for what it is has a nice premise start could have used a bit of work as it was a little uh what's happening
didn-t-like-it
March 25, 2025Note to self: not for me.
April 6, 2025
Decently written, but rather ''heavily inspired'' by Final Fantasy VII.
April 26, 2025
Good
A good story and for some reason I want to go play final fantasy 7 now. A pleasant read for sure.
A good story and for some reason I want to go play final fantasy 7 now. A pleasant read for sure.
July 9, 2025
Great story. I look forward to book 2.
September 23, 2025
A very good read. Finished it in one day. Not a lot of harem or sex in the first book but the first book is established the story and characters. Liked it very much.
December 1, 2025
did not finish.
December 22, 2024
It’s fine. The plot never had an original thought in its life, and Ward is comically overpowered, but it moves at a decent pace and he’s not a dick about it. Quite enjoyed.
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