Genesis

Children of The Spear #1

by Rhett Gervais

From the ashes, a hero will rise…

To the public Bobby is a hero, a superpowered defender of truth and justice, but after the death of his team at his hands, he just wants to be an ordinary man with an ordinary life.

When a deadly threat is detected in northern Russia, he is ordered to build a new team of heroes to face the challenge. What begins as a reluctant investigation, leads to a race across the globe to stem the tide of an ancient evil.

Genesis is the fast paced sequel to Origin, If you like Neil Gaiman, Allan Moore and Frank Miller, you won’t be able to put this book down.

284 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 14, 2019

About the author

Rhett's love for all things science fiction grew out of a Sunday morning family tradition of watching Star Trek re-runs on the cbc. His love of storytelling is the result of to many hours as a dungeon master trying to murder his players!
He lives in Pincourt Canada with his wife, daughter, and a crazy calico named Maggie.
If you like gritty, dark science fiction with deep characters you've found your author.

Reviews

[Phillip Murrell · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book built on the story of the first novel. The strengths continued to be strong and the areas I wasn't a fan of were still there. Thankfully, it was longer, so the constant skipping in time had more development. I really like the characters of Bobby, Michael, and Pastor Warren. They are all different degrees of horrible (as people). Bobby has anger issues. Michael is a sociopath. Pastor Warren's cylinder reminded me of Deadpool. The assassination mission was fun. I also enjoyed Daniel's arc/transformation. If you liked the first book (or is it the third? It was a bit difficult deciphering a reading order), then you'll enjoy this one too. The author knows what he likes and gives more of it to likeminded fans.

[Al Parks · Rating 5 out of 5]

So far has kept my interest.

It started out pretty good, I kinda had some trouble with the pedophile main hero. The author doesn't go into a lot, but seems like he does bring it up a few times a book. I usually just skip forward past the page, so I don't get ill.

[Derek Jordan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Story continues well, at first it was feeling like it was falling into the standard hero tropes (which I am fine with, btw) but then it takes some more turns. Adding more characters and, while they are interesting and at least a bit detailed, it would be nice to get a little more information on them.. Or rather character growth. I didn't mention this in my first review, but if you are expecting a standard hero, this is not the book for you. This is darker.. And the hero is much more flawed.. And really I would say much of the time cannot really be considered a hero. This is interesting though as he fights his desires and his need to do the right thing. A very different mix which is not really challenged too often by authors. One either just has the hero fall into doing right or doesn't care and does wrong therefore being … the villain, but this story just is not like that. Strong warning for language and sexual situations, but nothing too detailed, which I'm glad of.