Got through this as part of my book club and I am quite disappointed. I get that it was probably written for a younger audience but this book would disappoint even teenagers who have been exposed to any good comic books or any work of fiction where people have superpowers. 
 The kids in our book have powers which are all too familiar now; there's flamegirl, levitating girl, invisible boy and so on. The biggest problem for me was the competency level of using powers in this book. Flame girl for example used her offensive power once in the entire book. When someone around her was being attacked or in danger, she was generally just scared and ready to get the hell out of there without burning anything down. Invisible boy on the other hand managed to get shot while in water. I mean, cmon! 
 At any rate, my friends have told me that I probably did not experience the book in the best of ways because I heard it instead of reading a copy which includes a lot of real pictures. Even if I had read it, I am not sure I would have felt okay about the competency level. Any X-Men story arc is better than this book. 
 2/5 because the plot was somewhat okay.