When she does turn her attention to the job in hand for a page or two here and there, she acts rashly and stupidly, despite the two years of training she has apparently had. Tess is an undercover FBI agent who really does little else other than obsess over the object of her crush - who is, you guessed it, a fellow Variant and partner on the mission. Nothing new to see here.Īnd then there's the central character, Tess. Then there's another group who are the bad guys - Winnacker only hints at them in this first story - but it's quite clear they're going to be an exact copy of Magneto's band from the comics. One group of Variants is working for the FBI and on the side of the good guys, despite a society that fears and distrusts them - what they know of them, that it, because Variants are kept in the shadows. But Impostor has exactly the same set-up. I like the X-Men but y'know - I would like an original take in a book.

This is an X-Men-esque story, featuring teen crime fighters with many different mutations, called Variations. Teen superhero/comicverse novels aren't really my cup of tea but I am quite happy to read them. Or her feelings for fellow Variant, Alex.įor me, Impostor was sadly an underwhelming read. But she can't forget the danger she is in. But she loves being accepted as part of a loving family for the first time in her life. Tess hates deceiving a family that believes her to be its precious daughter. When a serial killer terrorises a small town in Oregon and his final victim is left in a coma from which doctors say she will not recover, Tess is sent on her first mission - to impersonate the dying girl and to find the killer. Along with other teens with strange powers, she has spent two years training with the Forces with Extraordinary Abilities, a secret branch of the FBI. Tessa can absorb the DNA of other people and use it to transform herself into an exact copy of them. She's working for a secret arm of the FBI. Summary: Paranormal story along the lines of the X Men.

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