"What if you had a power you had to hide from everyone--until now? In this bold sci-fi action thriller, a secret training program at West Point is turning misfits into a new generation of heroes. Welcome to The Point, future leaders of the Posthuman Age. New cadets, society is not ready for you. The oldest, fiercest fear is ignorance. The general population would burn you at the metaphysical stake. Here, you will train alongside other posthumans. You will learn to control and maximize your powers and to use them for the greater good. You will discover camaraderie and purpose. You will become a part of something bigger than yourselves: the Long Gray Line. Scarlett Winter has always been an outsider, and not only because she's a hardcore daredevil and born troublemaker--she has been hiding superhuman powers she doesn't yet understand. Now she's been recruited by a secret West Point unit for cadets with extraordinary abilities. Scarlett and her fellow students are learning to hone their skills, from telekinetic combat to running recon missions through strangers' dreamscapes. At The Point, Scarlett discovers that she may be the most powerful cadet of all. With the power to control pure energy, she's a human nuclear bomb--and she's not sure she can control her powers much longer. Even in this army of outsiders, Scarlett feels like a misfit all over again, but when a threat arises from the school's dark past that endangers her fellow students at The Point, duty calls and Scarlett must make a choice between being herself and becoming something even greater: a hero"--
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DNF @ 13%
warning: abuse
I quit this one a lot sooner than I usually do now-a-days. This is another one of those books where I lost respect for the character and then just couldn't get back into the book. Look, you don't not go to your graduation and not tell anyone – unless you are TRYING to piss people off.
She doesn't care? She's leaving anyhow? well, no because she forgot to bring in her documents to get a passport OTL. Like, I just couldn't. If you are THAT excited about your future and determined to prove to your parents you are an adult, then you just don't do that.
Unfortunately, I know there are probably people who do this... so, I'm sure this part won't bother people.
Besides the characters, it still felt like we were getting background on the character and story, like we were waiting for the story to start. I won't lie, her power seems really interesting and I wanted to see what was going to happen there. The bad guy with a god-complex is still interesting enough to make me want to see what his master plan would be.
Anyhow, I wasn't interested in watching this girl hit rock bottom in order to climb her way back up, but it is an interesting story arc. I probably would hesitantly recommend this to people who don't have the same hangups as me and don't need to like the main character.
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