Omega squad review: Albert Anness

A very captivating and well thought out story. I've been interested in superhero stories for a long time now and this one certainly stands out its like a mix between the X-Men and the SCP foundation. The effects and performers were all very good and felt real which added a nice tour and sent shivers up my spine. The story and characters were all very well thought out with plot twist after plot twist for who the bad guy is to how our protagonist got to where he is and gives good insight into the characters me minds and displays that message of not always trusting law and looking out for others, even if some of the characters are rather morally questionable. Characters such as Trinity, she first comes across as this merciless, self centred, psychopath but she is actually a very caring person who went through a lot she kind of reminds me of a mix between Black Widow and Harley Quinn. Characters too like Jake, he shows despite the twisted environment he is caught in he still retains his moral conscience and fights for justice. Overall I really enjoyed this story and would highly recommend it to anyone interested particularly in the superhero genre.

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an interesting concept that's ruined by characters

I'll admit I came in expecting more when reading the synopsis and that is my fault alone.

The story takes place in an alternative reality similar to ours. The only difference is there are people with super powers and for some reason (which isn't explained) the public doesn't know about. The government takes dangerous criminals that have these super powers and forces them to fight against other super humans. Which alone is an interesting concept, a "suicide squad" like story, except they're quietly taking out the bad guys without the public knowing.

the only problem is the characters.

Let's start off with Jacob Knight, the protagonist. I won't spoil his abilities but let's just say his powers are like superman but without the weaknesses. Which makes him very overpowered and admittedly a very boring character. You can disagree with me but I personally find a story boring if I know he's going to win a fight because "IM OVERPOWERED AS F***." There's also the fact that right at the start something I'd consider as emotionally upsetting to him happens and it takes nearly halfway through the book before he has any real reaction to it. without spoiling anything else about the story I can also say that he hates being called Jacob and prefers Jake, but it's never stated as far as I'm aware.

next is Trinity. The heroine of the story. Again trying not to spoil the story, she's constantly written as an emotionless character before meeting Jake, but literally meeting Jake on chapter 1 she's written as a bubbly and flirtatious character. by day two she's madly in love with Jake. I could probably get it if Trinity needed an emotional anchor or something like that as another character that arrives about halfway through the book, which brings to the other characters.

apart from another character I won't spoil. the other characters are fairly 2D in character development.

Ava is the strong silent type character.

Zane is the competitive asshole of the group.

and the last character (which I won't try and write his name because I know I won't spell it right) could be considered as the veteran of the group.

there is character development between these three but it's not an awful lot and upsetting since some of these characters are somewhat interesting.

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Don't even bother reading!!!

I really like Kurtis Ecksteins books but i have only gotten to 9 mins of this one and had to give up.
The Reason is the stupid sound effects that even an anime producer wouldn't dare use, not only are they a distraction but it is literally making me angry listening to the stupid effects.
BOOKS DON'T HAVE SOUND EFFECTS so i'm going to get get my credit back and hope they do a version without the sound effects.

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