I wanted to LOVE Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, and Deborah Biancotti teaming up to write about teenagers with superpowers, but... I didn't love it. I liked it well enough... there are definitely some interesting powers here and some of them are explored really well. I'm still kind of haunted by Anonymous. But at 500+ pages it definitely felt draggy. It felt like a LOT of set up to later books and the actual plot was a little meh, to me. I could have read like 10 X-Men books in the time it took me to get through this and gotten more out of them.

Still... it's fine, good to hand to kids who like teen heroes, and there's some mob/crime stuff that might be interesting. Also a diverse group of kids (A Latino boy! A blind white girl! A Nigerian-American girl!) I also keep thinking about Animorphs, and about how I like Animorphs more than I like this.