Omega Squad
A Superhero Adventure (Omega Metahumans, Book 1)
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Omega Squad
Narrated by:
Will M. Watt, Katherine Littrell, Jeff Hays, Aurelia Vazquez
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Narrated by:
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Will M. Watt
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Katherine Littrell
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Jeff Hays
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Aurelia Vazquez
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By:
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Kurtis Eckstein
About this listen
Jacob Knight wakes up to a bloodbath at the mall, with him at the epicenter. He is quickly arrested and forced to fight on a secret squad of metahumans who are given a choice between forced military service or prison.
The problem is, he has no idea what his ability is, and no one will give him a straight answer. But one thing is clear: he needs to figure it out, and fast, since the success of his first mission hinges on him.
Prologue
I heard her scream again, yelling as loud as she could muster, but it was lost in the fire this time, unable to penetrate the heat. I think she ordered him to stop. We both ignored her anyway, just staring at each other through the white energy pouring out of his body. It was like a powerful storm of pure thermal plasma raging out of him, like shaking hands with the center of a super nova.
He wasn’t angry. If anything, he was a little surprised, but there was something else there too.
Respect.
He was a monster who could survive an ungodly amount of heat, who could live in the flames. And I was equally a monster, who could stand in the flames with him. Something no one else could do. Something he could respect.
©2018 Kurtis Eckstein (P)2019 Kurtis EcksteinListeners also enjoyed...
Omega squad review: Albert Anness
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The story takes place in an alternative reality similar to ours. The only difference is there are people with super powers and for some reason (which isn't explained) the public doesn't know about. The government takes dangerous criminals that have these super powers and forces them to fight against other super humans. Which alone is an interesting concept, a "suicide squad" like story, except they're quietly taking out the bad guys without the public knowing.
the only problem is the characters.
Let's start off with Jacob Knight, the protagonist. I won't spoil his abilities but let's just say his powers are like superman but without the weaknesses. Which makes him very overpowered and admittedly a very boring character. You can disagree with me but I personally find a story boring if I know he's going to win a fight because "IM OVERPOWERED AS F***." There's also the fact that right at the start something I'd consider as emotionally upsetting to him happens and it takes nearly halfway through the book before he has any real reaction to it. without spoiling anything else about the story I can also say that he hates being called Jacob and prefers Jake, but it's never stated as far as I'm aware.
next is Trinity. The heroine of the story. Again trying not to spoil the story, she's constantly written as an emotionless character before meeting Jake, but literally meeting Jake on chapter 1 she's written as a bubbly and flirtatious character. by day two she's madly in love with Jake. I could probably get it if Trinity needed an emotional anchor or something like that as another character that arrives about halfway through the book, which brings to the other characters.
apart from another character I won't spoil. the other characters are fairly 2D in character development.
Ava is the strong silent type character.
Zane is the competitive asshole of the group.
and the last character (which I won't try and write his name because I know I won't spell it right) could be considered as the veteran of the group.
there is character development between these three but it's not an awful lot and upsetting since some of these characters are somewhat interesting.
an interesting concept that's ruined by characters
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The Reason is the stupid sound effects that even an anime producer wouldn't dare use, not only are they a distraction but it is literally making me angry listening to the stupid effects.
BOOKS DON'T HAVE SOUND EFFECTS so i'm going to get get my credit back and hope they do a version without the sound effects.
Don't even bother reading!!!
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