"Quantum Prophecy: The Awakening", a book written by Michael Carroll that I am currently listening to in audiobook format. Not gonna lie to y'all but the book does have some extremely cringe scenes and dialogue in the book. Though to follow up, it has a great plot for a story. You follow the young life of Colin Wagner a thirteen year old British schoolboy who lives in the post-age of superhero's. They are celebrating the ten year anniversary of when the world's superhumans all disappeared after an incident with a supervillain in the United States of America. The background of the story is solid enough, though it might take a minute to really begin to follow along.
*Pure Spoiler's ahead*
Colin Wagner, predictively so, ends up having super powers. Though how he gets them was a bit of a surprise for me. The troupe used through the centuries has died out and made a slight comeback with this book. Once you realize it, that's where a lot of the cringe comes in.
The sudden introduction of heavy
machinery also caught me by surprise, I mean at first you just have a fast kid and one who can hear things that he probably shouldn't then BAM helicopter comes out of bloody nowhere and chases down some seemingly random civilians.
Though it felt like it took a while, this is where is all gets fairly interesting. A group of what seems like a private military kidnap a two of the kids and Colin's parents, take them for a ride on the large chopper and across the sea to America. A brief stop in Florida confuses me though as this one might have needed a better escape plan for Colin.
First, they stopped to use a commercial flight to take them all the way to California. Now, if you have the money and power to buy a chopper that can take you across the ocean and hold a secondary fuel tank, wouldn't you be able to simply take them on your own jet and fly them to the other side of the country without having to risk such a public area?
That was one of the most pivotal points of the story, where Colin used the pubic to escape from his captors. So at some point it had to be done where Colin escaped but it just seemed a little rushed maybe? As an up and coming writer myself, I simply bet that writer's block hit him hard when he was at this scene. I could be wrong of course!
Escaping from the kidnappers, and having a few meaningless side characters, that I actually hope come back into play, Colin finds himself growing stronger with his powers and making a subordinate out of his strength. The typical bully tries to roast new kid, new kid is super strong (literally) and the bully is now his bitch.
Strangely enough, Colin has to learn to break his own morals to get the gas money they needed to make it to Virginia, where an old colleague of his parents live. This I wonder about, is it something that comes out in a later book? What was the point to him having to con an old wealthy couple? Once again, it is possible author Michael Carroll was just having writers block.
Believe me, writers block isn't always the easiest thing to get over either, you walk away from the computer to think about the situation in your book then suddenly THREE weeks pass!
In the end, Colin makes it to the colleague's house, and from there they get help from an old friend who just happens to be a billionaire. He takes them on his super truck to California, and all while this happens, the other kid who was kidnapped, Danny Cooper, someone who as manifested the power of super speed to the point where he can run faster than light, is being interrogated by his fake dad, and tricked by his real dad who had a vision of him when he was born.
I won't spoil anymore for you guys as I have left out a fair amount of detail already, but in the end it is do or die for these kids and several thousand people across the globe!
I give this book a solid 6 out of 10, worth reading if you run out of things to read. Unless you are around the age of thirteen because at that point all you'll see is the action that follows.
If you find yourself interested in the book, which I do suggest, hit the button below for an instant link to purchase your own copy at Amazon!
By: David Brcic
Citations:
Carroll, Michael. "The Awakening (The New Heroes/Quantum Prophecy, #1)". Goodreads.Com, 2022, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1312502.The_Awakening.
"The Awakening — "Quantum Prophecy" Series". Plugged In, 2022, https://www.pluggedin.com/book-reviews/awakening/.
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