The Point by John Dixon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1101967560/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_v6bzDbAG42ZP4 via @amazon
What if you had a power you had to hide from everyone—until now? In this bold sci-fi action thriller, a secret training program at West Point is turning misfits into a new generation of heroes.
Scarlett Winter has always been an outsider, and not only because she’s a hardcore daredevil and born troublemaker—she has been hiding superhuman powers she doesn’t yet understand. Now she’s been recruited by a secret West Point unit for cadets with extraordinary abilities. Scarlett and her fellow students are learning to hone their skills, from telekinetic combat to running recon missions through strangers’ dreamscapes. At The Point, Scarlett discovers that she may be the most powerful cadet of all. With the power to control pure energy, she’s a human nuclear bomb—and she’s not sure she can control her powers much longer.
Even in this army of outsiders, Scarlett feels like a misfit all over again, but when a threat that endangers her fellow students arises from the school’s dark past, duty calls and Scarlett must make a choice between being herself and becoming something even greater: a hero.
REVIEW
The point reminded me a lot of like X-Men/RWBY/shatter me series. Scarlett reminded me a lot of Yang from RWBY in that as much beatings she got the stronger she got, along with being able to create fireball energy. You had Dahlia who reminded me a lot of Emerald except Dahlia was a dream walker where as Emerald could create hallucinations and mess with your mind. Both are level 3 post-humans meaning they can do serious damage. Seamus, who is Scarlett‘s love interest and interesting because he is working within the corporation but not really because he feels that it’s their fault that his family is dead.A lot of PTSD here. Scarlett’s father is kind of a dick but I guess I could understand it all, I mean she has this gift she’s wasting, his son is dead and family is falling apart. There was a couple apocalyptic moments within the book that are just quite terrifying and Jagger, who is the master villain in the book I just feel is my only con, because I felt like that battle between him and Scarlett could have gone on a bit longer and a bit more interestingly. Otherwise I think this is a great read and a pretty good book and I am rather surprised if they didn’t get as much attention as it should have.
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