Kayla Bashe

In the first Kayla Bashe book I read, the concept was great but the writing was very shaky. I think her technical skill has improved considerably since then! I enjoyed this queer superhero adventure wholeheartedly. Shadow, a famous young superhero with power over darkness, is devastated when they find that their adoptive parents have been killed by vicious wildlife on an alien planet. They also learn that their parents had taken in a teenage girl named Bean, who survived the beasts but will need help getting back to Earth. Shadow and Bean bond on their trek through the jungle, and when Shadow disocvers that Bean has the superpower of light manipulation, they help her to enroll in an academy for young superheroes in training.
This book is super fun, full of rainbows and cuteness, but it’s not all happiness all the time. Shadow and Bean both struggle with mental illness, and learning to manage their anxieties and trauma and accept the love they deserve is every bit as important as defeating supervillains, and considerably more difficult.… (meer)