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I loved this book and laughed out loud multiple times as i read it. The action and character were definitely engaging. The biggest surprise was that I should have hated it.

This hits all the check boxes for potential disaster as a book. YA. 1st person. With snark. School setting (to an extent). Love triangles. Super powers. AND YET, the plotlines, dialog, narration, and character arcs are all at least good, and some of them great.

The protagonist's narration is perfect. Somehow it is incredibly snarky without becoming irritating. His struggle to become truly evil while achieving multiple goals is fun to read. And the extent to which most things he does only make things worse is done masterfully. The author does a great job of dragging him through the dirt. And I liked all of the characters, even the ones I hated.

I burned through this book, and bought the second without hesitation.

One note: Probably not appropriate for some young readers due to mild adult situations (ages 12+ for most, 15+ for sheltered kids). The book IS about a 16 year boy.


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The Rise of Renegade X Chelsea M Campbell Books Reviews

Here's the thing. This story is cute enough. I liked it a lot. HOWEVER, buy the book because I listened on audio, and this is BY A WIDE MARGIN the worst audio performance I have ever heard. The reader is TERRIBLE. Beyond awful (and I have never commented on a reader before. I'm not hard to please). His female voices are so bad as to be offensive. Think the old SNL skits about the Sorority girls with David Spade, Chris Farley, and Adam Sandler...... but they were making jokes. THIS reader seems to think that is how women sound because ALL female characters are voiced that way. Just because a character is annoying in the book does not mean you have to voice them in a way that makes you reader want to turn the story off. It's too bad too because when the reader isn't going bitchy-voice for the female characters, his speaking voice is not bad at all.
I have a soft spot for superhero stories, so I picked up this book and was wonderfully surprised with how much I liked it. In a world of superheroes and supervillains, a hero scientist figured out the snippet of DNA that makes a superbeing villainous. He designed a virus so that when a person with that DNA turns 16, a "V" appears on his thumb, making it easier for the heroes to recognize a potential villain. Of course, the villains modified the virus so that heroes would have an "H" appearing on their thumb, letting them know that a potential hero is nearby to thwart them.

Enter Damien Locke. Raised by his supervillain mom, he's having is 16th birthday party at a local nightclub where non-super villain fans paid for the privilege of watching a boy get his "V". At midnight, when he turned 16, Damien gets a symbol all right, but it's not a "V". It's not even an "H". It's the one thing that's been talked about but almost nobody has ever seen. An "X". He has BOTH supervillain and superhero genes. His mom had apparently had an affair with a hero! <GASP!> And to make matters worse, when he finds out which hero, he's appalled. It's the most goody-goody of them all! The Crimson Flash!

His mom feels it might be useful for him to spend time with the Crimson Flash for various reasons, so he's sent off to live with him for a while. Damien, though, is mortified. Everyone there is so.... good. He wants to be a villain dagnabit!

It's a very funny and entertaining tale. Told in a first-person perspective, it's filled with wit and humor. Damien wants to be a bad guy, but even his "bad" acts aren't all that bad. Like when several schoolmates were picking on him. His dad was appalled because he placed scorpions in their lockers. He goes on to explain that they were only robot scorpions and that the venom would just give them a really bad rash for a few weeks. And even with his bad moments, he has a sense of honor and cares about people. If anything, he's the equivalent of the anti-heroes in the comics.

If you like funny, engaging tales, pick this up. If you like superhuman tales, you'll like it even more.
No spoilers, this is all given to you in the first few pages

I liked the writing and the style of this story, and even the basic concept behind it (that every super powered person was identifiable by a thumb mark). I couldn't get past the notion that somehow personalities were heroic or villainous based on that mark, it seemed very two dimensional. If a person was marked as a result of their actions, maybe I could swallow it, but as it is, the chronic angst that somehow our protagonist was forced to make "good" decisions because of what their thumb indicated seemed so exactly backward that I couldn't get over it.

It's a decent read, nonetheless, but take the sample first and make your decision of whether to purchase based on that.

What really was well done in the story was the impression of the ages involved. I really felt like I was looking at some teenagers. If you don't want teenage angstiness, avoid the story entirely.
I actually borrowed this from the library a year ago but couldn't stop thinking about it. I read through the first, second and third book in just a few sittings. After I gained a little more spending money I decided that I HAD to get this book for my personal collection. It's been pretty rare to find a super hero novel that isn't cut and paste like the rest. I love Damien's personality and all the little mess ups he gets into. The humor used in the book is unique and enjoyable! A few moments I caught my self laughing and trying to share the experience with others. Which doesn't work out too well unless the other people are interested in the book. Just turns awkward yeah?

In short Loved it. Borrowed whole series from the library. Bought it to read a second time. Still love it. Stalking author's website for any new book news
I loved this book and laughed out loud multiple times as i read it. The action and character were definitely engaging. The biggest surprise was that I should have hated it.

This hits all the check boxes for potential disaster as a book. YA. 1st person. With snark. School setting (to an extent). Love triangles. Super powers. AND YET, the plotlines, dialog, narration, and character arcs are all at least good, and some of them great.

The protagonist's narration is perfect. Somehow it is incredibly snarky without becoming irritating. His struggle to become truly evil while achieving multiple goals is fun to read. And the extent to which most things he does only make things worse is done masterfully. The author does a great job of dragging him through the dirt. And I liked all of the characters, even the ones I hated.

I burned through this book, and bought the second without hesitation.

One note Probably not appropriate for some young readers due to mild adult situations (ages 12+ for most, 15+ for sheltered kids). The book IS about a 16 year boy.