The found family trope runs deeply through this book bonded over tragedy and because they are superheroes whose parents work for the super-secret spy organisation. Despite Rexley’s villainous Dad who died when he was very small, he continues to have a huge hold on Rexley, and his dad’s acts continue to have ramifications years later. They all have different powers, but Rexley’s is the most extreme so much so, he doesn’t want to use it. Rexley’s dad is the supervillain, who experimented on children and made them into superheroes. It was easy to follow, sometimes this switching between past and present becomes very confusing but not in this book. The book switches back and forth between the past and the present, giving the backstory to Rexley and his friends in short bursts which I liked.
This is a coming-of-age Superhero story taking the whole teenage/young adult angst to a whole Rex fights murderous Mages, evil organisations, criminal mafias, his agency appointed psychiatrist, his own anxious brain, and the most frightening of all, his attraction to a certain blue-eyed superhero. He leaves home to become a member of the Secret Superhero Security team, alongside three of his friends and Danger City’s own superhero, Polaris. When Rex turns twenty, he feels the drive to use his scientifically given abilities to protect the world.
When Rex was four years old, he became one of the world’s first superhumans. This is the painfully bizarre origin story of Rexley Nova. British superheroes, melodramatic Mages, snarky secret agents, one hell of a found family, and a whole load of weird people.
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