Renegade: The Empowered Prequel

Dale Ivan Smith

The Empowered Book 0 · Dale Ivan Smith

About this ebook

How far would you go to protect your superpower?

Sixteen-year old Mathilda Brandt just discovered hers: the ability to hear, control and even kill plant life. She will face a stark choice if and when the world learns about her new ability. Either she will have to put on the blue jumpsuit and become an officially sanctioned Empowered member of the Hero Council and follow any and all orders, or instead forswear ever using her power for any reason. Mat decides to keep her power a secret, but then she meets “rogue” Empowered people like herself who are creating a hidden sanctuary. She finally has a place where she can belong and use her power freely.

But if she wants a place to belong, first she must fight to save it.

Renegade is the free prequel to The Empowered series. Read to see what happened when Mat first discovered her superpower.

Ratings and reviews

Characters are a little simplistic for my taste. I know it's a YA series, but the writing could be better. I've read better. It has been awhile since I read the first book in the series, but I seem to remember it being pretty good. Just disappointed in this one.

Reminiscent of X-men - me like! I am diving into Agent, can't wait to see what's next for Mat.

Would have gotten 5 stars of there wasn't swearing

About the author

 A life-long resident of the beautiful Pacific Northwest, Dale Ivan Smith has his mother to thank for his love of science fiction and fantasy. When he was five, he glimpsed the cover of a paperback sci-fi novel she was reading and was immediately interested. (It had a giant radioactive spider on the cover.) When he was fifteen, she loaned him her collection of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom novels and he devoured them in short order. 

He got into trouble in grade school for sneaking off to the library during class, so naturally, he wound up working as a librarian for the Multnomah County Library system in Portland, Oregon. 

He's been writing fiction since he was a kid. He's had stories published in Perihelion Science Fiction, Everyday Fiction, 10Flash Quarterly, and on the Toasted Cake podcast. The Empowered is his first novel series, beginning with Empowered: Agent. 

When he isn't writing or reading fantasy and science fiction, he's playing board games, practicing yoga, and obeying his feline overlords