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Publisher's summary
Get the first three books in the Kid Sensation series.
Sensation (Kid Sensation book one)
Like millions of other kids, Jim grew up wanting to be a superhero. Unlike most of his contemporaries, however, Jim actually had the goods: a plethora of super powers that would have been the envy of any meta on the planet. But when his tryout with the Alpha League - the world's premiere group of supers - goes disastrously wrong, Jim basically becomes an outcast.
Two years later, Jim is still bitter about what happened to him. However, he soon finds himself the centerpiece in an odd turn of events that gives him a second chance at his dream. It’s a lot for one super to handle, even with a smorgasbord of abilities. But if saving the world were easy, everyone would do it....
Mutation (Kid Sensation book two)
Having saved the planet and earned a place with the world’s premiere superhero team, Jim (aka Kid Sensation) is preparing to attend the prestigious Academy, where teen supers from every corner of the globe learn to master their abilities. At the same time, however, he is approached by a mysterious government organization that wants Jim to work for them - and they won’t take no for an answer.
Moreover, at the Academy itself, an insidious and highly contagious virus is running amok through the student population, striking at the heart of their abilities. Students are losing control of their powers, with lethal consequences....
Infiltration (Kid Sensation book three)
Having a surfeit of super powers is great for battling bad guys and saving the world, as Jim (aka Kid Sensation) is finding out, but less useful in dealing with day-to-day situations - like bonding with his superhero father, adjusting to a team environment, and coping with what might be perceived as a growing rivalry between himself and another teen super. On top of all that, despite having a serious girlfriend, he finds himself inexplicably drawn to a new female super he’s just met.
At the same time, some villain has just gotten himself a new toy: an unknown weapon of tremendous power that is able to strike without warning. It quickly becomes clear that the only way to stop this new evil is from within.
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Kingdom Keepers: The Return Book One Disney Lands
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With the defeat of the Overtakers behind them, the five teenagers known as the Kingdom Keepers should be celebrating. By all accounts they saved Disneyland from certain destruction. Why then did their mentor leave one last puzzle for them to decipher? The Keepers must solve a puzzle of the past, or be crushed under an evil that makes the Overtakers seem like gentle souls.
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Joey Harker isn't a hero. In fact, he's the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house. But then one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension. Joey's walk between the worlds makes him prey to two terrible forces: armies of magic and science who will do anything to harness his power to travel between dimensions.
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A good listen
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Charlie Wilde knew her life would change forever when her family moved from the city of Chicago to the suburbs of Arizona...and that was before she found the bracelet. After putting it on, she notices odd things start to happen. Suddenly Charlie seems to have the speed of a cheetah and the strength of an elephant - and that's just the beginning. She would be thrilled about her transformation if she had any idea how to use the device or control her amazing powers.
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Great realistic superhero origin
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Welcome to the Sweet Tooth Ice Cream & Candy Shoppe, where the confections are a bit on the... unusual side. Rock candy that makes you weightless. Jawbreakers that make you unbreakable. Chocolate balls that make you a master of disguise. Four young friends - Nate, Summer, Trevor, and Pigeon - meet the grandmotherly Mrs. White, owner of the Sweet Tooth, and soon learn about the magical side effects of her candies.
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Entertaining for grade schoolers and their parents
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For decades scientists have speculated about the untapped potential of the human brain. Now, neuroscientist Chuck Brenton has made an astonishing breakthrough. He has discovered the key - the crucial combination of practice and conditioning - to access the incredible power dormant in 90 percent of our brains. Applying his methods to test subjects, he has stimulated abilities that elevate brain function to seemingly godlike levels.
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it lost its way at the end, but I liked it
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Penelope Drayton Spence made a choice years earlier, and picked marriage and family over a promising career as an investigative reporter. Now, divorced and with her children spread around the country, she is having second thoughts. A mysterious call from the Managing Editor of the Washington Post, offers her a second chance at big time journalism. He has a story so sensitive that the President of the United States personally asked the Post to leave it alone.
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Narration will keep you awake..
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When out-of-shape IT technician Roen wakes up and starts hearing voices in his head, he naturally assumes he’s losing it. He isn’t. As of last night, he has a passenger in his brain - an ancient alien life-form called Tao, whose race crash-landed on Earth before the first fish crawled out of the oceans. Over the millennia his people have trained human heroes to be great leaders, to advance our species at a rate far beyond what it would have achieved on its own. Split into two opposing factions - the peace-loving, but under-represented Prophus, and the savage, powerful Genjix - the aliens have been in a state of civil war for centuries.
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Not funny, just a lot of fighting
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Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big-time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead, the deal starts to go sour. Suddenly Myron is plunged into a baffling mystery of sex and blackmail.
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Deal Breaker
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The Keepers Box Set
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For the first time, get all four books in the Alchemy series in one audiobook bundle. The series begins with The Keepers: Two days ago, Jo Davids was a waitress by night and a college kid by day, with the unnerving problem of objects floating around her. One day ago, Jo's sexy boss, Cormac, noticed her for all the wrong reasons when she witnessed a man transform into a monster in the basement of his casino. Today, Cormac ordered her shot. If he's real lucky, she won't die. Because if she does, all hope is lost.
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Breathless virgin lusting for bad boys spoiled it
- By Ethosian on 05-12-18
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The Devil's Sword
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Kevin, Rachel, and Ben are young fencers eager to compete in an upcoming tournament at Nellis Air Force Base. But when they arrive, they become unwilling pawns in a twisted plan to steal the ultimate weapon. A plan that somehow revolves around the tournament. Now, battling for their very survival, they must find a way to stop the two brilliant arms dealers behind it all.
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Not the usual science fiction adventure
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Merit Badge Murder
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When CIA agent Merry Wrath is "accidently" outted, she's forced her into early retirement, changes her appearance, and moves where no one will ever find her - Iowa. Instead of black bag drops in Bangkok, she now spends her time leading a young Girl Scout troop. But Merry's new simple life turns not-so-simple when an enemy agent shows up dead at scout camp. Suddenly Merry is forced to deal with her former life in order to preserve her future one.
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Enjoyable ex-spy cozy, Sounded familiar
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The Syndrome
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When Amanda travels east to Orlando on a hunch, she's met with the worst news possible. Kingdom Keeper Finn Whitman is missing. Calling on her own gift (she's telekinetic), her sister Jess' ability to dream the future, and their fellow Fairlie Mattie Weaver's unexplained ability to read minds through physical contact, the three gifted girls must navigate treachery, deception, and the stubborn, unwilling parents of the missing Keepers if they're to save their friends.
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Loved it!
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What listeners say about The Kid Sensation Series: Books 1-3
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- LITRPG Audiobook Reviews
- 03-06-18
Puberty and Superpowers
Ok, this is a coming of age story, and my headline might have been a little misleading, but Sensation is about a young man struggling to find his place in the world. Given that he has super powers that makes his task a little harder than most.
The book is a great straight forward good vs evil/ hero vs villain tale, but it really goes much deeper than that. It has, as Shrek would say, LAYERS. One might think that Kid Sensation is overpowered, but I really look at tis book as a text for what Superman would go through as a young man. I think a great point the first book makes is how he deals with rejection and being an outsider in a community that is already beyond regular humanity.
The action is great, and there is a mystery regarding a mole that will keep you guessing. Naramore does a great job narrating this book.
Book 2:
I generally start off with any perceived problems, and here are a couple: The book does start out a little slower than I'd have liked, but that is just set up and prep for the rest of th tale. There were a few parts that I had trouble understanding why things did or did not happen, such as when the kids were attacked. . . no one retaliated? Had one of those kids been mine then somebody would have been nibbling on their liver. Hardman seems to just be hitting his stride as a writer, as the book really picks up and gets to be fun and exciting. Any fan of superheroes would love this book.
Mikael Naramore does a great job narrating, he clearly puts his all into the process, and gives each character a unique voice, and their personalities shine through and apart from one another. This is a fun book, part 2 in a series, and you'll hope there are many more to come.
Book 3:
Hardman has continued to build up his heroic world. Kid Sensation is back in this third book. Naramore' narration, already great, has somehow continued to improve. I really think he is beginning to get into the swing of the series, and his enjoyment of the material really shows. The series itself is straitup popcorn chewing superheroics like you'd see on the big screen.
I do have one small nitpicky problem, and that is the way the story is set up. For the most part it seems very much like two seperate self-contained stories. They do tie together, but it just comes off like two short stories put together. Nothing wrong with that, I just think either idea could have been fleshed out into a full length tale to stand on their own. Hardman's writing is as fine and sharp as ever, and he is very aware that he might be writing for an audience that does not consist solely of adults, and he keeps it toned for a YA audience (just like most comic books). I would like to see Kid Sensation face a real rival of a villain later in the series, every hero needs a good nemesis.
Over all another top notch tale.
Get it, read it, love it.
This is a great book for Young Adults, my teens listened with me as we drove, and they really enjoyed the series. I really reccomend it for kids and adults, and fans of comic books or their movies will enjoy this set as well.
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- Couch Potato
- 05-12-18
Just Good Fun
I've been drawn to series that involve super powers/LITRPG/Modern Fantasy as of late. This series fit that bill. Is it a great series? Not particularly, but it is a good one to listen to for just mellow enjoyment.
The main character is kind of ridiculously overpowered. Unfortunately, despite the author trying to portray him as some kind of genius, his shortcoming is a result of him thinking/acting like your typical teenager. For example, he tends to act before he thinks which results in a lot of moments where you want to palm your face. Nevertheless, overall it is still an enjoyable series to just sit back and listen while going about your business. Mikael Naramore does well as a narrator, though his range for character voices could be a little more varied. But I can't talk since I doubt I can do any better. If it was 1 credit for each book individually, I probably wouldn't recommend it. However, it is 1 for 3, so it's a good purchase.
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- Mindjacked
- 03-03-18
awesome superheroes
This is a wonderful audiobook series narrated by Mikael Naramore, who does great voices for all of the characters in the Kid Sensation series and really brings that whole world alive for the listeners. Kevin Hardman's Kid Sensation series is a wonderful, action packed, suspenseful, full of surprises series that is awesome for middle graders and young adults, or anyone that likes superhero stories. The main character Jim, has it all, smarts, all kinds of super powers, but he is a teenager and thing don't always turn out the way he plans, sometimes that is good sometimes that is bad, it is a learning process even for superheroes.
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- David Sambrano
- 01-18-24
Great story and Narrator!
Really loved each book and the world they created! Kept wanting to find out what would happen next! Ready to start the next book!
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- Jarvis Kolen
- 11-03-23
Fun and light
a fun listen that was very enjoyable and allowed me to relax without thinking too much about the flaws of the story. Kid Sensation has been positioned to great.
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- Boyd
- 04-10-23
it's good
Enjoyable story. lots of fun. few minor issues with it but overall a good read
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- Anonymous User
- 02-10-22
so many different angles
I love this book there's so many different angles and there's so many things you could end up going even farther and different branch series if you tried
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- KJMW
- 01-22-22
Solid. Just solid.
Firstly, I want to make it clear that I thoroughly enjoyed this book series. As an avid listener of superhuman stories, this one was clean and everything I expected. That being said, it was everything I expected, meaning there weren't many big twists or turns that I didn't see coming.
The author is a very good writer, to be sure. I didn't find myself thinking he was taking omniscience too far, nor did I find myself hating any characters. I did find many of the names of superhumans to be annoying. Some of them were either uninspired or just silly sounding. (Retread Fred and White Worm come to mind.)
It's easy to like the protagonist, Jim, although even his name seemed a little bit annoying. (Knowing that it's an acronym didn't help much.)
I kept wanting there to be more depth to certain characters or more exploration around certain characters. There is a wealth of untapped cast members to pull from if the series were to go into future installments and spinoffs. The diversity aspect seemed reasonable, unlike books by other authors who tend to whitewash the cast. That was definitely not the case here. I loved the fact that Jim's grandfather is dark-skinned and his grandmother is not even human, meaning his mother is biracial in a very unique sense, and Jim himself is also biracial...tri-racial? The fact that his mom writes romance superhero novels was clever.
I appreciate how the author managed to have a story centered around a teenage superhero without having it get overly sexual or focused on sexual themes. It's all too easy for that to happen when that is such a focus of so many real life teens.
I don't recall much cursing if at all, and I don't recall any sex scenes or use of substances or alcohol. I suppose I could even let my own kids listen to this story. It's a bit refreshing. I might even recommend this book series to kids as young as grade 4.
The super villains seem a bit too easily defeated for my taste, but maybe that's because this series is meant for a younger audience to appreciate. I like loose ends, so I did appreciate having a villain escape to places unknown here and there. I wish there was more exploration around The Academy before the story moved away from that locale. I think a lot more could have been done with that. (Maybe it'll happen in later books?) I also wanted to hear more about the inner workings of The Academy. It had a superhero Hogwarts vibe which was exciting and has potential.
All in all, I really wish that each book was longer so more could happen. There is a tendency with writing to try to keep it nice and neat and tie up loose ends. Sometimes you don't need to do that, and stretching it out is okay. I've read books that seem to go on forever, but I don't think anyone really minds that when it's a good read/listen.
I always end up sounding critical, but truly this was a very well done trilogy. I'm eager to see if there are other books in this series that continue the story.
Well done and I highly recommend. It's not an unexpected tale but it is everything you'd expect from the genre.
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- Jay Nowlin
- 06-23-21
Great set of books.
Love the book set, definitely worth the money. The only thing I didn't like was in the story. The MC has a vast array of powers, which in fights, he seems to always forget he has them. He remembers his go to powers and only ever uses them. Even though he is supposed to be trained well to use his powers. So many times I said to myself, why doesn't he use this power. But frankly, if he used his powers to their maximum potential, he would be figuratively and literally untouchable! He is very OP. That's why not the 5 stars, he could have just given him his main 4 or 5 powers and called it a day, instead of hinting he has a slew of them and getting MORE all the time. Although he picked up only 1 that I can remember and it was 1 he wasn't even sure of.
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- Brenner
- 02-16-21
A fun first book
The first book was rather enjoyable, a bit silly, and light, but I think that was the intent. The second book was contrivance upon contrivance. Which resulted in a very artificial, very brittle setting and story. Most of the second book felt like a room with three people A B and C. A is beating B while C watches with a gun, wanting to save B, but not doing anything because they don't want to hurt anyone. Read the first, pass on the second, I'll update my review if I listen to book 3.
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