We Could Be Heroes: A Superhero Adventure

The Superhero Adventure Series, Book 1

By: Harmon Cooper

Narrated by: Justin Thomas James, Jeff Hays, Annie Ellicott, Andrea Parsneau

Sam Meeko never thought that he’d ever get a superpower, especially one that allows him to smell everything. Everything. With his unconventional power, Sam joins forces with a group of women hellbent on getting to the bottom of a countrywide conspiracy. It’s going to take some thinking outside the box, and when that doesn’t work, Sam and his group might need to tear the walls down.

©2019 Harmon Cooper (P)2019 Boycott Books and Soundbooth Theater

High School Fantasy

The performances were good along with the editing.

The story read like a high schoolers fantasy. perhaps that is the audience it was going for as I am not that age.

The background to this story is there are supers and not so supers but they have powers. The not so supers are not permitted to act as crime fighters as they cannot be licensed for such. In this world, we meet several 20 somethings, at least I hope that's the supposed age, who are either playing super or wanting to.

There is one guy and three females. All the females seem to take an interest they guy for some reason that isn't clear as he doesn't seem particularly adept at anything other than smelling, which is his superpower. He can tell the future and the past with this power. How a sense of smell can determine the future is up to your imagination.

The group is all working poor with the exception of one who is basically Bruce Wayne as a girl and who just meets some of them and decides they should all live in her mansion. There is supposed to be sexual tension between two of the females and the guy but they are so blasé about it, it doesn't work. For good measure, the third girl is also crushing on him.

Fortunately, they blunder into a kid smuggling ring that supports, no kidding, vampire ninjas. The amount dead kids found in a shipping container cannot support the amount of ninjas these wannabe heros kill at the end. It's a good thing they did too otherwise the official heros had no idea how to handle the vampire ninjas and had to be shown how to do it by these pesky kids (yes Scooby-Doo reference).

Overall, it was okay. The action at the end boosted it's score. I don't think I'll be getting anymore from this author. A book with a similar plot, different power levels and only some can be supers is Super Powereds (Years 1-4) by Drew Hayes. This had believable characters that are much more complex. Year one reads a bit high school-y but I think it's intentional as they seem to mature through the years. I have no confidence the people in this book will mature.

Very good book

Great character development, not the standard superhero story, and an interesting world. Can’t wait for the next book.

Good story but......

Good story, very good performance, but what is with the random music? The music didn’t appear to be coordinated with the story at all! And that makes it distracting as all hell. It took away from the overall enjoyment. I don’t know who’s idea it was but they should be slapped.

so much fun

art work was eh but the story was smart and funny I loved the voice actors it's nice to have more than one person I wish there were more books

LOSE THE DAMN MUIC

Good story, very enjoyable and entertaining listening. However the editor chose to add COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY MUSIC over certain parts of the story, in some areas the music was so LOUD the story couldn't even be heard. Aside from that, the story is definitely worth the price of a credit.