After having to pass on two books I really wanted - Cherry Hill and Smile No More - because of the $60 price tags, this is pretty exciting.
James A. Moore has a new novel out, Subject Seven, and you can find it for ten bucks at pretty much any bookstore. It's a YA novel, but I don't care. Any new Moore is a good thing, in my opinion. Especially if he can reach a whole new audience who enjoy great fiction.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde meet the Incredible Hulk in this high-violence series opener featuring human genetic experiments gone wrong. Five years after his escape from an underground lab, the now-teenage Subject Seven gathers four others like himself who were supposed to have been killed but were adopted out instead. The others are unaware of their special abilities to change back and forth from ordinary teens into superstrong, superfast warriors with new personalities and few memories of their alter egos. Most of this does not become clear until well into the story, after each character wakes up covered in blood or showing other signs of having been on a rampage, struggles to figure out what’s going on, and is contacted by Seven just in time to take on squads of heavily armed troops dispatched by the mad scientist who heads the original secret project. Readers patient enough to weather each team member’s protracted introduction will be rewarded by plenty of blood-and-thunder action and the enticing prospect of more to come.