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The New Heroes/Quantum Prophecy #8
The New Heroes: Crossfire
The world is slowly recovering from the chaos of the Trutopian War, but that was only the beginning. A dangerous enemy has emerged, and The New Heroes quickly find themselves outmatched and outnumbered. When their enemy starts to pick off their colleagues one-by-one, they realize that in order to win, they must fight the battle on the enemy’s terms... But how far are they willing to go to save the human race?
352 pages, Paperback
First published October 14, 2015
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October 17, 2015
*SCREAMS*
I HAVE WAITED SIX YEARS FOR THIS. SIX YEARS FOR MORE OF COLIN, DANNY, AND RENATA
IT WAS WORTH IT
I HAVE WAITED SIX YEARS FOR THIS. SIX YEARS FOR MORE OF COLIN, DANNY, AND RENATA
IT WAS WORTH IT
February 5, 2017
Boring. The problem with the series is that it's just too repetitive. Always the same villain, always the same issues ("he's too smart", "he's too strong", "Krodin can't be killed", "we don't kill, EVER"). Nothing ever gets solved.
I don't recommend this.
I don't recommend this.
January 2, 2016
4.25*
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December 16, 2025
Despite the dodgy looking cover, this book is a good return to form after what is a pretty weak second series.
March 14, 2016
SPOILER ALERT
This review gives spoilers to those who read this. This review will tell about this book and what happens in it. So I suggest stop reading it here if you don't want this book to be spoiled for you. This is also the 11th book in this series so I suggest reading them all before you read this book.
Colin Wagner is a 15 year old superhuman. He works with a superhuman military place that has many other super humans there. Colin has many superhuman friends and a few of them are Butler, who can make a force field bubble, Cassandra, who can read minds, Brawn, who is a giant blue person, and many other superhuman friends. Colins superhuman powers are super strength, the ability to fly, and he can control energy so he can shoot out lightning, or fireballs, or he can even freeze stuff. Colin is said to be the strongest, most power fullest superhuman alive, but that doesn't last for long.
Colin and the three of the friends I briefly described go on special missions to help the world, but the mission they are about to go on changes a lot about Colin and his friends. They were on a mission to find this camp that may have other superhuman activity, but not good activity. When they found the camp there was hundreds of bodies that were underground. Colin could see the energy of the body heat, but then he saw three other bodies that had way more energy than the hundreds. He could then tell that the hundreds of bodies were dead bodies, people that had recently been alive. Butler had a force field around Colin and his friends, and something kept bumping into it. It was to fast to see what, or who it was. Then they were still and Colin could not see who it was because they were in all black suits and helmets.
Colin was trying to fight them but while fighting two of them fled and Colin captured one. When he captured the other superhuman he took of the mask to see who it was. The superhuman looked exactly like Colin. The superhuman was a clone of Colin, but the only problem was that the clone was stronger than Colin in every way.
The clone wanted to destroy the new heroes. When they were close to there base the clone started fighting again. He was much stronger than them all. He was going to kill Cassandra first but Butler saved he barely, then the clone to Butler high into the air and threw him down. Butler died. Colin was furious. The clone fled and said he'd be back to kill them all.
I do not like to give away spoilers so I won't put everything in here. I only recommend this book if you read the other one first. This series is packed with action and mystery and much more.
This review gives spoilers to those who read this. This review will tell about this book and what happens in it. So I suggest stop reading it here if you don't want this book to be spoiled for you. This is also the 11th book in this series so I suggest reading them all before you read this book.
Colin Wagner is a 15 year old superhuman. He works with a superhuman military place that has many other super humans there. Colin has many superhuman friends and a few of them are Butler, who can make a force field bubble, Cassandra, who can read minds, Brawn, who is a giant blue person, and many other superhuman friends. Colins superhuman powers are super strength, the ability to fly, and he can control energy so he can shoot out lightning, or fireballs, or he can even freeze stuff. Colin is said to be the strongest, most power fullest superhuman alive, but that doesn't last for long.
Colin and the three of the friends I briefly described go on special missions to help the world, but the mission they are about to go on changes a lot about Colin and his friends. They were on a mission to find this camp that may have other superhuman activity, but not good activity. When they found the camp there was hundreds of bodies that were underground. Colin could see the energy of the body heat, but then he saw three other bodies that had way more energy than the hundreds. He could then tell that the hundreds of bodies were dead bodies, people that had recently been alive. Butler had a force field around Colin and his friends, and something kept bumping into it. It was to fast to see what, or who it was. Then they were still and Colin could not see who it was because they were in all black suits and helmets.
Colin was trying to fight them but while fighting two of them fled and Colin captured one. When he captured the other superhuman he took of the mask to see who it was. The superhuman looked exactly like Colin. The superhuman was a clone of Colin, but the only problem was that the clone was stronger than Colin in every way.
The clone wanted to destroy the new heroes. When they were close to there base the clone started fighting again. He was much stronger than them all. He was going to kill Cassandra first but Butler saved he barely, then the clone to Butler high into the air and threw him down. Butler died. Colin was furious. The clone fled and said he'd be back to kill them all.
I do not like to give away spoilers so I won't put everything in here. I only recommend this book if you read the other one first. This series is packed with action and mystery and much more.
September 5, 2016
Crossfire picks up where the last volume in the original New Heroes series, Absolute Power, left off. The Trutopian War is over, and the teen superheroes are now helping the regular folks deal with the aftermath. Early on we meet a new super human, Kenya Cho, who fought on the Trutopian side during the war and now feels a need to put right some of what was done during the fighting.
Among the returning characters is Lance McKendrick, hero of Hunter, the final volume in the 'Super Human Clash' spin-off prequel series. He's now older and wiser, and becomes the new leader of the team.
The new villains are several times more powerful than Colin Wagner, the strongest of the New Heroes, and the villainous master-mind is the smartest man alive, and so Lance is going to have all on to out-think him. His nasty plan is not to take over the world, rather he wants to wipe mankind off the face of the planet to make way for something better. And even that plan is more devious than it first appears.
The only person sneakier than Lance McKendrick and the villain he faces is author Michael Carroll, who pulls the rug out from under his readers in every book in this series - and has us eagerly stepping onto each new rug he lays out before us!
Great stuff! Can't wait for the next one...
Among the returning characters is Lance McKendrick, hero of Hunter, the final volume in the 'Super Human Clash' spin-off prequel series. He's now older and wiser, and becomes the new leader of the team.
The new villains are several times more powerful than Colin Wagner, the strongest of the New Heroes, and the villainous master-mind is the smartest man alive, and so Lance is going to have all on to out-think him. His nasty plan is not to take over the world, rather he wants to wipe mankind off the face of the planet to make way for something better. And even that plan is more devious than it first appears.
The only person sneakier than Lance McKendrick and the villain he faces is author Michael Carroll, who pulls the rug out from under his readers in every book in this series - and has us eagerly stepping onto each new rug he lays out before us!
Great stuff! Can't wait for the next one...
April 6, 2016
You have to wait a long time for a Michael Carroll book, but they're definitely worth it. There are now eight books in the series and while some people might think that the series is too stretched out, I happen to love the stories of the new heroes. This book finally picks up with the new heroes and the old heroes, since the last two books were just stories about specific people, that being Brawn and Lance. I would classify these books as YA, possibly middle grade, so a lot of the twists I saw coming rather quickly, but they still made me giddy and excited. I love Michael's writing style, there's not unnecessary detail and beating around the bush. His books are just nice and fun and take you on quite the ride. Since it's been so long, I liked that there was a summary of the previous books to refresh my memory too. I do have to put out there, that the cover is quite ugly - don't know what happened there, his previous covers are beautiful. I also love how the stories do have cliffhangers since there's obviously a next book, but they aren't terrible cliffhangers. 5 stars.
February 3, 2025
2.9/5 This book had so many awesome culmination points that made reading all the past books worth it even more. The Colin clones, Brawn suit, Lance’s return and connection to Razor, tons of awesome moments and reveals. Still lacked a bit of depth and character variety but there’s way more than there was in the first book!
Honestly pretty annoyed with Krodin returning at the end but maybe the next book will be great. The final epilogue was pretty cool, bringing Hesperus back. No way Lance isn’t putting together Cross’s true purpose though. Cmon!
Honestly pretty annoyed with Krodin returning at the end but maybe the next book will be great. The final epilogue was pretty cool, bringing Hesperus back. No way Lance isn’t putting together Cross’s true purpose though. Cmon!
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