West Pacific Supers: Rising Tide [Kindle Edition]

K.M. Johnson-Weider (Author)

Book Description

Imagine a world like our own but with superheroes. Would the superheroes change the world or would the world change the superheroes?

It's 2013 and West Pacific Supers is the professional superhero team for the city of West Pacific in northern California. It's hard to know what's more dangerous for the members of West Pacific Supers: the supervillains out to destroy the city or the superazzi determined to uncover all of their dirty secrets. If juggling heroics and public relations weren't hard enough, the 2013 Season begins with a shocking death. Now new team members must be recruited to counter two major threats: a scientist with an insane plan that threatens California and an enemy from within West Pacific Supers itself. The team will succeed only after taming their massive egos and getting help from unlikely sources. Unfortunately, just like winning fame and fortune, beating the bad guys always comes at a heavy price.

Editorial Reviews

Review

• "...the well-imagined world and strong cast of do-gooders... will keep readers interested through the epilogue by offering new takes on surprisingly human personal struggles, like a less cynical Watchmen with more likable characters." - Kirkus Indie Reviews
• "The characters of the super heroes--both male and female--are complex, three-dimensional and well-defined... Overall 'West Pacific Supers: Rising Tide' is imaginative and ambitious, a strong first-effort by its authors." - from 4-star review on IndieReader

From the Author

There are a lot of characters in Rising Tide, but each of them is distinct.  Each one sees the world in a different way and each has a distinctive voice. Some of the key characters in West Pacific Supers: Rising Tide are as follows:

Seawolf is an obvious mutant who's still struggling with the anti-mutant sentiments she faced as a child, even though times have changed and the non-mutant Coast Guard liaison to the team keeps trying to ask her out.

Blue Star is a four-time inductee in the Superhero Hall of Fame who can save the world but can't salvage a relationship for the life of him. West Pacific Supers is his last chance to end his career on a high note.

Cosmic Kid is a cocky young super just coming on the team and looking to prove himself.

Camille's decade-long marriage is threatened by her unilateral decision to return to the team that once kicked her off for refusing to wear a miniskirt costume.

Loren Polawsky isn't a real superhero, just a real estate agent struggling to find time for vigilante heroics.

Dr. Noah Brandeis has a crazy plan to make geological history and, with the help of a few insane supervillains, he may just succeed.

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Product Details

• File Size: 784 KB
• Print Length: 350 pages
• Publisher: Blue Moon Aurora, LLC; 1.3 edition (June 29, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0058V5MPO
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #134,611 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Twilight for grownups? March 10, 2012

By Geeky guy

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Different from many books in the superhero genre, this one is lesser on action and heavier on relationships. Unlike many of the other reviewers, I found it to be like a soap opera with a few battles sprinkled in here and there. Now, I did read the entire Twilight series, partly because my daughter was reading it. Like Twilight, WPS: Rising Tide has a lot of angst-filled dialog along with superhuman action. Except that the age range runs older. Although the action scenes were decent, they were pretty sparse in the beginning, and, as in Twilight, I found myself slogging through the chapters with the various characters fretting over this and that personal issue. A lot of people must like that sort of thing. After all, the Twilight series is extremely popular. But I found those chapters to be quite overdone. Everything is wrapped up in the end, save one particular occurrence that is purposely left unexplained.

I took another look at the book information. The author, K. M. Johnson-Weider, is the pen name for a married couple Kirk and Michelle Johnson-Weider. Perhaps the husband wrote one set of chapters and the wife wrote the others. I did get the feeling that, stylistically, the reader keeps getting yanked back and forth.

In the end, though, the Kindle price is so low, how can I complain? If there's a sequel at the same price, I'll get it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great superhero book with an interesting angle January 22, 2013

By Jonathan

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It was a great story set in a new and unique (to me) setting for the superhero genre. While modern-day, the author has put the heroes in the setting of sports superstars. Very interesting take on how it could be if we had real-life superheroes with extreme powers. How the media and hype would be and so on. At the same time it was a good old-fashioned superhero story.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A good super-world December 8, 2012

By Dana John Haakensen

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A good novel. The turns it takes might've been clearer if i hadn't been so absorbed in the story. This is a world unlike that of Superman, the heroes only win most of the time, and there is a ranking system that seems akin to fantasy football. I enjoy that characters seem to be in real danger. No one is guaranteed to be alive in the end. It is a very realistic world.... for one filled with mutants and mechs.

More About the Author

K.M. Johnson-Weider has written two novels in the West Pacific Supers series, Rising Tide and Victory at Any Cost, as well as Black Throne Conspiracy, an entirely new novel set in the Ascension Galaxy, where future tech mixes with ancient magics, political intrigue, and brutally ambitious noble houses. For more information about current and upcoming books, visit www.bluemoonaurora.com