Ever The Hero (Eververse Book 1) - Eververse
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Ages: 12-15, 16-18, 18+
Superheroes are big business. Imagine not being able to afford them.
Kit Baldwin is just trying to make things work.
She scavenges for valuable artifacts from a crashed alien ship, the only industry in a city still in ruins. When Kit discovers a powerful alien object, it pays off more than she ever hoped. The artifact draws the attention of Valene Blackwood, a superhuman who gained her powers from the ship.
A passionate romance sparks between the two, but they couldn’t be from more different worlds. Kit struggles to pay rent while Valene lives in a penthouse atop a tower her family built selling superhuman protection for a fee. The city can no longer afford it, and the Empowered withhold their services. Valene stands with the city, but her gifts come at a steep price.
She hears everything, everywhere, always. Kit’s ambition morphs into harnessing the object’s cosmic potential to mitigate the trauma Valene’s powers inflict on her. The city can’t afford to lose Valene and neither can Kit. In love and running out of time, Kit unleashes the artifact’s full power, transforming her forever, as well as the battle over what is owed, and to who.
Reviews
Sure, you’ve got fantastic powers with alien origins, superhuman slug fests, and the other staples of the genre, but Ever the Hero also gives you a fantastic lesbian heroine motivated more out of love for her crush than the good of humanity, complex social class commentary that grapples with the nasty visuals of some superhero stories, and even some ideas about the real-world implications of superpowers that feel like the next logical step after Watchmen.
Gorgeous literary writing, sweeping themes about how capitalist gain has replaced empathy in American society, and Darby's usual amazing dialogue. All packaged in a very modern take on the superhero genre: what happens if superheroes were privatised and salvation had a subscription fee? Nothing good, is the answer.
