Review: The Nobody People

The Nobody People by Bob Proehl
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The Nobody People is a novel that is so similar to the stories of Marvel's X-Men that I wonder about infringement on the franchise. Mutants, I mean Resonants, are humans who secretly walk among us, who have special powers. Sometimes those powers are clearly defined (like being filled with high energy blue light or being able to throw people into a null space or read people's minds or even control their minds) and other times we are left wondering. Resonants can be very good or very bad or occasionally confused about what makes a person one or the other. Resonants are running an Academy and are ready to reveal themselves to the world, which may be at their own peril, since the world has not proven itself ready to be intolerant of an intolerance for difference.

Reader, I struggled with this book. Many characters, some never clearly defined, and so many storylines that evolved at an odd pace. And it just felt so derivative. If you're going to redo the X-Men, I just think you could strive for something more.

I received a Digital Review Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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