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Book Three
Book Four
Book Five

The Supervillain Rehabilitation Project is a character-driven, action-packed superhero series with light romantic elements, snarky humor, and a focus on family bonds.
Series rated PG-13 for mild language, superhero action, and fade-to-black romance.

For fans of Marvel, classic DC animated shows, White Collar, and Psych.]]> 823 H.L. Burke Michelle 5
Original Reborn Review:
My favorite of the series so far! And I can't really say why without spoilers... Besides the spoiler stuff, I just love seeing the team grow both in size and closeness. And Fade faces an interesting moral dilemma in the middle of the book that I think is rather gutsy for the author to address, which also earns major points in the "Will Michelle love this?" question. "Super" excited to continue the series!

Original Redeemed Review:
I'm still loving this team of supers and the hard tasks and hard questions they face. Not going to go into it more than that because spoilers ]]> 4.25
author: H.L. Burke
name: Michelle
average rating: 4.25
book published:
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2023/06/03
shelves: fav-male-mc, found-family, mutants-quirks, new-adult, psychic-powers, romance, superhero
review:
I love this series so much! Superheroes, found family, romance, high stakes, redemption, sacrifice...what more can you ask for?

Original Reborn Review:
My favorite of the series so far! And I can't really say why without spoilers... Besides the spoiler stuff, I just love seeing the team grow both in size and closeness. And Fade faces an interesting moral dilemma in the middle of the book that I think is rather gutsy for the author to address, which also earns major points in the "Will Michelle love this?" question. "Super" excited to continue the series!

Original Redeemed Review:
I'm still loving this team of supers and the hard tasks and hard questions they face. Not going to go into it more than that because spoilers
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Short Story Prequel
Book One
Book Two

The Supervillain Rehabilitation Project is a character-driven, action-packed superhero series with light romantic elements, snarky humor, and a focus on family bonds.
Series rated PG-13 for mild language, superhero action, and fade-to-black romance.

For fans of Marvel, classic DC animated shows, White Collar, and Psych.]]> 595 H.L. Burke Michelle 5
Original Reformed Review:
Got halfway through this one and knew I had to read the rest of the series. Superhero found family teams, themes of redemption and sacrifice, and high stakes? Sign me up! Also, Prism and Fade are just so adorable together! ]]> 4.60
author: H.L. Burke
name: Michelle
average rating: 4.60
book published:
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2023/06/03
shelves: found-family, mutants-quirks, new-adult, psychic-powers, romance, superhero
review:
I love this series so much! Superheroes, found family, romance, high stakes, redemption, sacrifice...what more can you ask for?

Original Reformed Review:
Got halfway through this one and knew I had to read the rest of the series. Superhero found family teams, themes of redemption and sacrifice, and high stakes? Sign me up! Also, Prism and Fade are just so adorable together!
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15-year-old Marco Reyes has spent a year at a camp for at-risk superpowered teens, learning to control his fire throwing abilities in hopes of being a superhero someday. With his powers mastered, he wants nothing more than to return to his mother. His mother, though, may not be ready to care for him.

When Marco's Mom blows off their meeting in San Diego, Marco's guardians take it as a sign the woman isn't responsible enough to care for her superpowered son. Marco, though, knows that this time something's different from his mother's other absences. He's convinced someone's taken her.

Slipping away from the safety of his camp family, Marco follows a clue that leads to a supervillain recruiting agency and allies with a supervillain who is after the same agency for her own reasons. Marco's camp friends are on his trail, but will he find his mom before they bring him in? Or is his mother simply a pawn in a much deadlier scheme?]]> 289 H.L. Burke Michelle 5 4.64
author: H.L. Burke
name: Michelle
average rating: 4.64
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2023/05/19
date added: 2023/05/20
shelves: found-family, mutants-quirks, superhero, young-adult
review:

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The U.A. High sports festival is a chance for the budding heroes to show their stuff and find a superhero mentor. The students have already struggled through a grueling preliminary round, but now they have to team up to prove they’re capable of moving on to the next stage. The whole country is watching, and so are the shadowy forces that attacked the academy…]]> 189 Kohei Horikoshi 1421585111 Michelle 4 4.40 2015
author: Kohei Horikoshi
name: Michelle
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2022/10/08
date added: 2022/10/08
shelves: academy, mutants-quirks, superhero, young-adult
review:

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A sinister group of villains has attacked the first-year U.A. students, but their real target is All Might. It’s all that Midoriya and his classmates can do to hold them off until reinforcements arrive. All Might joins the battle to protect the kids, but as his power runs out he may be forced into an extremely dangerous bluff!]]> 190 Kohei Horikoshi 1421585103 Michelle 4 4.35 2015
author: Kohei Horikoshi
name: Michelle
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2022/07/15
date added: 2022/07/16
shelves: academy, mutants-quirks, superhero
review:

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Traumatic experiences have left telepath and former superhero Aiden Powell burned out. Now retired, he wants to focus on his new civilian career as an EMT and his budding romance with former colleague, Tanvi. He has no interest in resuming the dangerous work that cost him both his parents and almost his life.

However, on the anniversary of his mother's death, a strange woman approaches him. A woman who thinks he's his father ... and also that it's 1998. Death ray blast or time travel beam? His mother's heard it both ways.

Nothing involving super powers is ever easy. Aiden and his mother have just hours until the supervillain who took her away from her family the first time arrives in present day Escondido for a contentious reunion.

With time running out, Aiden must race to save his mother while trying to avoid shattering the timeline that contains everyone he loves.]]> 148 H.L. Burke Michelle 5 4.55
author: H.L. Burke
name: Michelle
average rating: 4.55
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2022/07/10
date added: 2022/07/12
shelves: mc-enneagram-6, mutants-quirks, psychic-powers, superhero, time-travel
review:
Yet another awesome book in this superhero series! I still adore Aiden—one of my top favorite characters ever—and I loved getting to watch him wrestle with some really hard questions about both himself and time-travel (because of course) in this one. I wondered about this book being so short compared to the others in the series—would this be enough story to satisfy me? And it was. I'll always take more, but this novella explored and wrapped up the story so well. Also, Tanvi rocks.
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Getting into U.A. High School was difficult enough, but it was only the beginning of Izuku’s long road toward becoming a superhero. The new students all have some amazing powers, and although Izuku has inherited All Might’s abilities, he can barely control them. Then the first-year students are told they will have to compete just to avoid being expelled!]]> 207 Kouhei Horikoshi 1421582708 Michelle 4 4.30 2015
author: Kouhei Horikoshi
name: Michelle
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2022/01/27
date added: 2022/01/27
shelves: academy, eastern-culture, mc-enneagram-6, mutants-quirks
review:

]]> 56903374 Now a full time hero with a beloved wife and treasured daughter, former supervillain Fade is certain nothing could take him down a dark path again. However, a mystery from his past lies in wait, a mystery tied to a part of his life he’d rather forget.
When DNA evidence reveals that Fade’s biological father is the elusive and enigmatic assassin known only as Syphon, Fade wants nothing to do with that mess.
Unfortunately, Fade can’t shake the target this newly discovered connection puts on him—and the backs of his friends and family.
Fade's only chance to fix things is taking down Syphon himself.
But Fade’s long absent father has his own plans for their reunion.
Plans that could cost Fade everything he’s fought and bled to create.]]> 331 H.L. Burke Michelle 4 4.52
author: H.L. Burke
name: Michelle
average rating: 4.52
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2022/01/15
date added: 2022/01/16
shelves: adult, mc-enneagram-6, mc-enneagram-9, mutants-quirks, superhero
review:
I'm still loving this team of supers and the hard tasks and hard questions they face. Not going to go into it more than that because spoilers
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Idealistic superhero, Prism, has taken the Supervillain Rehabilitation Project to new heights. With her team thriving, her marriage to former supervillain, Fade, blissful, and her first child on the way, the life of her dreams is within reach ... but supervillains never rest.

When a mysterious gang of criminals targets superhero facilities, Prism's team springs into action. However, these villains have a nasty surprise in store for Prism: all its members are already dead … and one of them is a ghost from Prism’s past. One she can’t bring herself to take down.

Faced with an enemy who always strikes for the heart, Prism has impossible decisions to make. Choices that could cost her the things—and people—she cares for the most.]]> 306 H.L. Burke Michelle 5 4.58
author: H.L. Burke
name: Michelle
average rating: 4.58
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2022/01/04
date added: 2022/01/05
shelves: adult, mutants-quirks, romance, superhero
review:
My favorite of the series so far! And I can't really say why without spoilers... [spoilers removed] Besides the spoiler stuff, I just love seeing the team grow both in size and closeness. And Fade faces an interesting moral dilemma in the middle of the book that I think is rather gutsy for the author to address, which also earns major points in the "Will Michelle love this?" question. "Super" excited to continue the series!
]]> 54133896 Can the Supervillain Rehabilitation Project form a family out of this mess?

Still working out her team's dynamic as well as her own fledgling romance with former villain Fade, Prism is blindsided when her superiors order her to take on another rehabilitation subject or risk having her team broken apart. Then her best friend and fellow superhero, Tanvi, foils a robbery but injures a super-powered teen in the process. Guilt stricken, she begs Prism to let the young girl, Alma, AKA Soulbird, be their next project.

Alma fills a gap in the team and works her way into the group's hearts. However, her past stalks her, as the villain who forced her into a life of crime in the first place doesn't want to let her escape into hero life without a fight.

Can Prism and her team redeem Alma from her past, or will the villain life drag the girl out of the SVR and out of their reach forever?]]> 263 H.L. Burke Michelle 5 4.37
author: H.L. Burke
name: Michelle
average rating: 4.37
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2022/01/01
date added: 2022/01/02
shelves: found-family, mutants-quirks, superhero
review:
4.5 stars! A great second installment, with an epilogue that had me immediately picking up the third :D
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Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn’t got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all, gives him a chance to change his destiny…]]> 189 Kohei Horikoshi 1421582694 Michelle 4
I was also (pleasantly) surprised to find how closely the anime followed the manga, at least here at the very beginning. A few lines are different, and there's some fun background details in the drawings that weren't transferred over, but for the most part it's all the same stuff (all of which I love). I know later volumes will deviate a bit more, and I'm very curious to see it all.]]> 4.24 2014
author: Kohei Horikoshi
name: Michelle
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2021/11/27
date added: 2021/11/29
shelves: academy, mutants-quirks, superhero, young-adult
review:
My first manga read—fitting, since My Hero Academia is one of my favorite TV shows, and my top favorite anime. I think my favorite thing about this story is Deku (the MC) himself. He's an underdog, told all his life that he could never be a hero—the thing he wanted to be more than anything. He wants to save people with a smile, to be the person in others' lives that he needed and never really had. And through crazy events and circumstances, he finally gets his chance. So many good lessons and themes show up here too—the value of hard work over natural talent, the power of one's words and how teachers and peers can shape one's view of oneself, the fact that being a true hero means being one when no one else can see (or when everyone else thinks you're a fool for trying) and you will get no fame or glory for it. I love this series and am excited to continue on in this new-to-me format!

I was also (pleasantly) surprised to find how closely the anime followed the manga, at least here at the very beginning. A few lines are different, and there's some fun background details in the drawings that weren't transferred over, but for the most part it's all the same stuff (all of which I love). I know later volumes will deviate a bit more, and I'm very curious to see it all.
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The kids at school call Billy "Dragon Breath" for good reason. His breath is bad! It isn't the normal, morning-mouth bad; it's the hot-as-fire, "don't-you-dare-get-near-me" bad. Trouble erupts when his hot breath sets off the fire sprinklers in the boys' restroom in school, and his parents learn that they've kept their secret for too long.

Billy finally discovers the secret. His father was once a dragon! Now that's a piece of news a guy doesn't deal with every day! Billy feels betrayed, alien, lost. When the dragon slayer traps him on a cold mountaintop in West Virginia, Billy learns to battle with weapons of steel and spirit while relying on a power he doesn't understand, a power that helps him learn to trust again.

Bonnie, an orphan, tries to find a home, someone to love her, even though she feels like a freak because of a body feature that she calls a deformity. But this unusual feature becomes a life-saving attribute as she discovers that her love for others and her faith in a creator hold the answers she's looking for.]]> 399 Bryan Davis 0899571700 Michelle 4 3.88 2004
author: Bryan Davis
name: Michelle
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 2021/11/27
date added: 2021/11/28
shelves: christian, contemporary, dragons, fantasy, mutants-quirks, young-adult
review:
One of my favorite book series when I was in middle and high school, and it still holds up rather well (though mentions of cassette tapes and printing directions to new locations make me chuckle with nostalgia)! I love how this story blends so many different genres—fantasy, Arthurian legend, and modern day all show up in this installment, with science fiction, alternate dimensions, Biblical fiction, and mythology all showing up later. I also love Billy and Bonnie and remembering the beginning of their journey as compared to where I know they'll end up. I'm so excited to continue this reread!
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Optimistic and idealistic superhero Prism is determined to redeem her father’s legacy by rebooting his supervillain rehabilitation program. To do so, she sets her sights on Fade, the relapsed supervillain who was the reason the government canceled the original program in the first place. However, when she petitions for Fade to be released into her custody, she finds out things might not be as simple as she thought.

Convicted of an unforgivable crime, Fade received a choice: surrender to trial and possible execution or endure a memory erasure so he could start fresh. Now with no recollection of his time before incarceration, Fade doubts he has the ability to be anything but the villain the public believes him to be.

A series of attacks by a mysterious power-swapping villain points back to Fade’s past and the crime that cost him his freedom and memory. With her father's legacy and her own reputation on the line, even Prism has to wonder: can a villain truly be reformed?]]> 230 H.L. Burke Michelle 5 4.35
author: H.L. Burke
name: Michelle
average rating: 4.35
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2021/07/19
date added: 2021/07/19
shelves: superhero, new-adult, mutants-quirks
review:
Got halfway through this one and knew I had to read the rest of the series. Superhero found family teams, themes of redemption and sacrifice, and high stakes? Sign me up! Also, Prism and Fade are just so adorable together!
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