Opal has been planning to go to Chicago and join the Midwest’s superhero team, the Sentinels, since she was a little kid. That dream took on a more urgent tone when her superpowered dad was unjustly arrested for protecting a neighbor from an abusive situation. Now, she wants to be a superhero not only to protect people, but to get a platform to tell the world about the injustices of the Altered Persons Bureau, the government agency for everything relating to superpowers.<\/p>\n

But just after Opal’s high school graduation, a supervillain with a jet and unclear motives attacks the downtown home of the Sentinels, and when Opal arrives, she finds a family on the brink of breaking apart. She meets a boy who’s been developing secret (and illegal) brain-altering nanites right under the Sentinel’s noses, another teenage superhero-hopeful who looks suspiciously like a long-dead supervillain, and the completely un-superpowered daughter of the Sentinels’ leader. Can four teens on the fringes of the superhero world handle the corruption, danger, and family secrets they’ve unearthed?<\/p>\n

Representation Includes<\/h4>\n

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• Deaf asexual male POV character<\/li>\n
• Nonbinary (genderfluid? I found a few reviews that say this, but I’m not 100% confident that it’s the correct label) bisexual POV character<\/li>\n
• Two sapphic POV characters, one of whom is black<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
  Content Warnings<\/div>

  Ableism (challenged), racism (challenged), misgendering (challenged). <\/div>