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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 9619087" data-attributes="member: 3649">The Cloak Society by Jeramey KraatzNice little Young Adult superhero book - first in a series, the other two are waiting to be read. 12-year-old Alex Knight is a telekinetic metahuman and he is a fourth generation member of the villainous Cloak Society. And make no mistake, they are villainous. They don't play around at all and they don't 'play games' with the metahuman superheroes who guard Sterling City. They can and do kill heroes on and off-screen. Alex's 12th birthday party - a bank heist - goes poorly when he can't rip the vault out of the wall. Also, he and his team go up against the Junior Rangers, the sidekicks of The Rangers of Justice and he falls slap-dab in love for the first time. Not a real surprise since it's the first time he's seen a girl that wasn't basically related to him. The Cloak Society had their butts handed to them about 10 years ago when they went head-to-head with the Rangers. The used a sinister device to exile several Rangers into a shadowy oblivion, possibly forever. In turn, head Ranger Lone Star (the series takes place in Texas) kills most of the Cloaks and the Society literally goes underground with their four remaining members, there to raise their children and a couple other metas in secret, planning to eventually emerge and take their revenge. Now, Alex has drunk the Kool-aid here. He absolutely believes what his parents and the other members have told him about what they want, why they act as they do, etc etc, until he starts to question things. Being a killer just is not in him, despite his parents being two of the most murderous and evil supervillains I've seen in some time. However in a nice turnabout, they love their son and they don't mistreat him aside from a little tough-love about his powers (it's pretty obvious early on that his powers are tied to his belief in them). There are some nice ongoing mysteries here about what really happened when the Society went up against the Rangers, and some lies upon lies upon lies that are not all solved by the end of the book. I liked it well enough to get the other books and look forward to reading them. [ATTACH=full]400487[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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