Marketing told me I would love this book. Gillian Flynn, Lee Child, and Oprah's Book Club told me I would love this book. "The kind of story you've never read" is stamped across the cover. The solid premise--sci-fi + special powers + superheroes + terrorist told me I would love this book. I was expecting to put this up on a pedestal, as it has been religiously compared to X-men and Heroes. Brilliance could not have gone wrong. And yet, it did! Badly. I never DNF books, because I'm way to stubborn and I get annoyed with myself if I don't finish, but I could've put this down easily. It was a sucktastic read for me.