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A review by illidia316
The Ables by Jeremy Scott
4.0
I saw the author at a book convention in 2019, where he sat on a panel with several other authors. When he introduced himself, I was shocked - he’s the CinemaSins dude! After he introduced the book, I immediately put it on my want to read list. A book about disabled superheroes? Yes please!
This book is a solid four stars for me. The characters are really interesting - I don’t want to say that I enjoy their disabilities, more that I enjoy their disability/superpower combination. For example, a blind teleporter - you wouldn’t think that could ever work without death or loss of limb, but somehow it does. I have two favorite characters - the main character Phillip and his friend Bentley. Bentley is so intelligent and clever that it was mind blowing. Phillip deals with so much tragedy in this book that I am amazed he can keep going, but he does. The story has a couple of really surprising plot twists that I didn’t see coming.
The only reason this isn’t a 5 star read for me is the sheer amount of bad luck that the kids have in this book. In my opinion, way too many bad things happen, especially to Phillip. Overall though, this book is great.
This book is a solid four stars for me. The characters are really interesting - I don’t want to say that I enjoy their disabilities, more that I enjoy their disability/superpower combination. For example, a blind teleporter - you wouldn’t think that could ever work without death or loss of limb, but somehow it does. I have two favorite characters - the main character Phillip and his friend Bentley. Bentley is so intelligent and clever that it was mind blowing. Phillip deals with so much tragedy in this book that I am amazed he can keep going, but he does. The story has a couple of really surprising plot twists that I didn’t see coming.
The only reason this isn’t a 5 star read for me is the sheer amount of bad luck that the kids have in this book. In my opinion, way too many bad things happen, especially to Phillip. Overall though, this book is great.