A review by kitvaria_sarene
Super Powereds: Year 1 by Drew Hayes

2.0

Super Powereds: Year One by Drew Hayes was recommended to me, when I asked for urban fantasy without romance.

This was free on audible, or I definitely wouldn't have finished it.

It's a bunch of kids who have special powers going to school, only everyone else there has had their powers under control. Our main characters have powers that they had no control over, but are used to try out a new way to actually give "Powereds" control as well.

So I don't generally have a problem with YA, and I actually love a lot of school settings, but this was quite annoying a lot of the time. Staying with there being quite a lot of "who will sleep with whom" , when I asked for no romance... I mean it might be very accurate for the age group, I'm just not interested in it, and never have. 

There's oh so many stereotypes. The muscly but not very wise one, the D&S playing super softy who's naive and a bit of a push over, the typical "let's find a girl for the night" stuff.
The girls actually do get agency and page time, but the "what shall I wear" or the "I am allowed to like shopping, I'm a girl" just got tiring. It definitely read like a teen boy wrote what he thinks girls think...

This apparently this was a web novel or something line that before, which explains why there is no actual clear plot line, but it feels more like disjointed chapters or together, each quite episodically in themselves. I don't mind that, but an edit to just smooth some switches for the book version would have helped. 

All in all it was good enough to keep me listening to the end, but I definitely won't pick up any sequels....