Sage Wilkins had no idea he had secret super powers until he lost his temper and almost blew down his family home. After a week on the run with this curse spiraling out of control, he’s started to wonder if it wouldn’t be safer if he didn’t exist.Gideon Ward thought having a secret super power was great when he was a kid. Now, it’s just kind of one of those things. But even an amazing gift seems … gift seems pointless when there’s no villain to fight, no evil to undo. The most he uses it for is to reduce inflammation in his furry clients at the vet clinic. He can’t help but wonder if he’ll ever be accepted as more than the strange kid that Caspar and Theo adopted ten years ago.
It’s random chance when Gideon is the one to help rescue Sage… or is it? When one of your dads can see the future, you never really know. Someone has to teach Sage to control his power, and that someone turns out to be Gideon. But Sage isn’t the only one who has something to learn. Before Gideon can find acceptance in his community, he has to learn to accept himself first, and to find joy in the magic that already exists inside him.
This book is the first in a new series that picks up with the second generation of the pack you grew to love in The Outcast Chronicles. It can absolutely be read on its own, but you’ll get maximum enjoyment if you’ve read the first series as well.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this story. Man it was good to see that Gideon finally got over the chip on his shoulder in regards to family after everything he’d been through before Theo and Caspar adopted him and the 11 other “special” kids with powers that Wamp was training to become his army so the chip totally understandable. It was cool to see him grown up and becoming the person he was meant to be, first doing all that schooling and internship with Ralph to become a vet, but no one trusts him to look after his animals for anything major Ralph is usually called and then given the credit so Gideon is kind of at a crossroads in this story. Sage is a “special” who has come into his powers over air/wind after an argument with his parents over college and money. He got angry and then forced his dad against a wall and then nearly hit him with a knife so Sage freaks and runs as he scared that he may hurt someone else and he didn’t until he was picked up by this couple who refused to drop him off and then tried to s*xually asault him so his powers burst from him to protect him and he ran and the barn collapsed and they died but Kurt and Kaden found out after investigating the string of freak weather patterns that they thought it may be a special who has just come into their powers and found out the people that died were serial r*pists and m*rderers so Sage.
Gideon keeps on asking Caspar advice on the future and what he should do but Theo has asked Caspar to not use his gift on the kids unless something extremely bad could happen. Gideon is restless so Kaden has asked if he wants to come with him to collect the possible untrained special, he agrees and they find a wee omega fox which both Gideon and Kaden expect a kid but when Sage finally shifts he tells them that he’s not a kid that he’s 19 years old. Both Gideon and Sage notice that they’re both extremely compatible with each other but Gideon being his stubborn self fights and it and was planning to ignore Sage but as soon as they take him home to their house Caspar tells Gideon that he’ll be training Sage so he can master his powers. When Gideon is dismissive of Sage after he’s mastered his training basically telling him to go back home, Sage is completely fed up with him and one thing leads to another and they both express their feelings but it isn’t until Sage lets himself be completely vulnerable and opens their connection so Gideon can see all of him, does it give Gideon the courage to do the same. I loved getting some more snippets of the outcast pack members and I’m looking forward to seeing what happens in the next book, especially for Kaden and Josh. I’d definitely recommend this book, series and authors to everyone.
*WARNING* contains m/m sexual situations
This the first book of the spun off from The Outcast Chronicles. I’m glad I read the Outcast Chronicles first, there many characters and references to the first series that I think I would have been confused. It nice seeing how these kids are turning out. I like the different paranormal beings and this story adds vampires to the mix.