Colin manages to get away from his captors, but then he’s in Florida - a twelve-year-old on his own in a foreign country, with no contacts and no money.

One of those ever-present shadowy organizations (you know, the ones that have unlimited resources and incredible amounts of information yet nobody knows it exists) captures the kids and whisks them away to America. Almost immediately, they’re swept up into a larger chain of events. The first book, The Awakening, gives a brief prologue about the battle with Ragnarok, and then jumps to the “present,” in which a couple of British kids, Colin and Danny, start to realize they have super abilities. Here’s a brief rundown of the first trilogy: Ten years later, though, a few teenagers are discovering that they have powers, and things quickly get interesting. A few remained, but they had lost their powers, and nobody had an explanation for what happened at the battle or where they all went. After Ragnarok’s battle tank was destroyed in an enormous explosion, nearly all of the superhumans vanished. The Quantum Prophecy trilogy is set in a time mostly about a decade after Mystery Day, the day a huge battle took place between many of the world’s superheroes and a supervillain named Ragnarok. (Note: The Quantum Prophecy trilogy was first published in the UK as The New Heroes with different subtitles: The Quantum Prophecy, Sakkara, and Absolute Power.) Having all six books under my belt, I thought I’d dig a little deeper into the stories be warned, though, that this may involve some spoilers. The Super Human books are prequels but were published later - but I happened to start with them, which makes for an interesting perspective on things. I mentioned Michael Carroll’s Super Human trilogy in my post about superhero fiction, and since then I’ve also read the earlier Quantum Prophecy trilogy. Don’t judge these books by their somewhat unexciting covers - there’s plenty of action inside.

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