Polar
Opposites
By Kai
Strand
Super Villain Academy #2
Publisher: Whiskey Creek Press
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Genre: Fantasy/Paranormal/Coming of Age
Length: 226 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-61160-835-9
ASIN: B00KPLR2PKy
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The supers are balanced. Academies have altered their curriculum
to teach both sides of the super power spectrum. All’s well in the super world.
Right?
When Mystic kidnaps Oceanus, Jeff learns it isn’t all right. Turning to
the newly balanced supers for assistance, he panics to find they’ve done
nothing to rescue Oceanus. When no ransom request follows, he worries Mystic’s
plan never included returning his girlfriend. Frustrated, he’s forced to work
with the only super willing to help. Oceanus’ ex-villain, ex-boyfriend, Set.
Mystic isn’t the only one hiding something. Nothing about Jeff is balanced.
Temper flares result in scorched clothing or flying furniture, and his charm
has become an indiscriminating people-magnet.
Jeff is convinced, or maybe just
hopeful, that his lack of control is directly related to Oceanus being gone.
But will he and Set find her before Jeff loses control completely and will they
find her alive?
Excerpt
They
never talked about how they ended the world. Twice. Jeff glanced at
Oceanus, bent over her phone in the passenger seat of his car. A curtain of
black hair shielded her profile from view, but he thought he saw her smile.
He
reached over and tucked her hair behind an ear. Yep, she was smiling. So was
he. He felt his skin heat, but not as a side-effect of his super power ability
to create fire. This heat was due to thoughts of Oci running her small warm
hands down his back and tilting her face up to accept his kiss.
“ How about a movie?” Oceanus asked.
“ Which one?” Jeff replied, scanning the
traffic and then his girlfriend.
Oci’s
thin arms, delicate wrists, and bird-like legs that barely reached the
floorboards, all gave the impression she needed protection and caring for.
Whereas, with her super strength, she could lift the car they drove in onto two
wheels if someone were trapped underneath.
“ Oh, perfect!” Oceanus flung her hair over
her shoulder and straightened in her seat. Her smile illuminated Jeff’s
peripheral vision as he concentrated on traffic. “The one I want to see starts in forty-five
minutes. That gives us plenty of time to get there, get popcorn and some good
seats, and watch the previews. I love the previews, don’t you?”
Jeff glanced at her again. The devilish glint
in her eye made him frown. “What movie?”
Oceanus
peeked through thick black lashes. Jeff was pretty sure she even batted them a
bit.
“What
movie, Oci?”
“ Accidental Hero.” At Jeff’s groan, Oceanus chuckled. “Come on,
you have to admit the storyline looks kinda familiar. Besides, the special
effects look amazing. You love that crap.”
Jeff
stared at the traffic and said nothing. He knew it was useless. He could mount
the best argument against seeing the movie, but Oceanus always got her way.
Cursing his Oceanus-shaped soft spot, he turned at the next intersection and
headed toward the theater. The whiny guitar tones of the heavy metal song Super
Villain erupted from his cell phone. He looked at the display and saw Mother’s
number. “Can you answer that?”
Reaching
for his phone, Oceanus said, “You know, now that we aren’t technically super
villains anymore, you should consider changing your ringtone.”
King of Bad
By Kai Strand
Super Villain Academy #1
Publisher: Whiskey Creek Press
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Genre: Fantasy/Paranormal/Coming of Age
Length: 217 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-61160-581-5
ASIN: B00DQGA6MW
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About the book:
Jeff
Mean would rather set fires than follow rules or observe curfew. He wears his
bad boy image like a favorite old hoodie; that is until he learns he has
superpowers and is recruited by Super Villain Academy – where you learn to be
good at being bad.
In
a school where one kid can evaporate all the water from your body and the girl
you hang around with can perform psychic sex in your head, bad takes on a whole
new meaning. Jeff wonders if he’s bad enough for SVA. He may never find out.
Classmates
vilify him when he develops good manners. Then he’s kidnapped by those closest
to him and left to wonder who is good and who is bad. His rescue is the
climactic episode that balances good and evil in the super world.
The
catalyst – the girl he’s crushing on. A girlfriend and balancing the Supers is
good, right? Or is it…bad?
Author Kai Strand: When her children were young and the
electricity winked out, Kai Strand gathered her family around the fireplace and
they told stories, one sentence at a time. Her boys were rather fond of the
ending, “And then everybody died. The end.”Now an award winning children’s author, Kai crafts fiction for kids and teens to provide an escape hatch from their reality. With a selection of novels for young adult and middle grade readers and short stories for the younger ones, Kai entertains children of all ages, and their adults.
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