Radiants, David B. Coe
Radiants, David B. Coe
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Radiants

Author: David B. Coe

Narrator: Dawnie Green

Unabridged: 10 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/18/2024


Synopsis

DeDe Mercer is a Radiant who can control other people’s thoughts, make them do what she wants. For years she’s controlled her power, keeping her secret, never using it on anyone— until the day she had no choice.

Now the government is after her, after her brother, too, because he’ll come into his power before long. The Department of Energy, the Defense Intelligence Agency, Homeland Security— they all want her, and they’re willing to do anything, hurt anyone, kill if necessary, to make her their weapon.

But DeDe has had enough. They think she’s a weapon? Fine. They’re about to find out how right they are.

About David B. Coe

David B. Coe is the award-winning author of nineteen novels and more than a dozen short stories. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his master's and Ph.D. in United States history from Stanford University. Co-founder of and regular contributor to the Magical Words group blog, he currently resides with his wife and two daughters in a small college town on the Cumberland Plateau.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Terri on November 29, 2021

3.5 stars. I liked the characters, or at least appreciated them (some are terrible people). The main character (the only one written in first person) is the girl we first meet. The other point of view characters are told in third person, and they're quite an assortment. I dislike when writers use so......more

Goodreads review by Alexander on February 04, 2022

Long one of my favorite authors, Coe's latest is a modern day, supernatural thriller. A fraction of the world's population develop superhuman abilities (levitation, electrical manipulation, etc.) during adolescence, similar to X-Men except without every power being unique to the individual. Generall......more

Goodreads review by Brenda on November 07, 2021

Radiants are people with the right genetics that give them special powers that usually manifest around puberty or so. (Think X-MEN mutants). People with powers could be useful to the government and dangerous on their own. When 16-year-old DeDe uses her hidden power, everything goes sideways as agent......more

Goodreads review by Night on November 25, 2024

2.5 Stars for me. The author has talent but ... I should know better when it comes to reading/listening to YA stories published after 2020 so I will do my very best to avoid them. In the first 10 minutes of the story, the author had to show he was an all-inclusive writer by having a non-binary charac......more

Goodreads review by Alisha on October 22, 2021

Intriguing, Unusual, and Thoroughly Enjoyable "Radiants" is a story about people who have unusual abilities (in this story, two teenagers), and with their mother, struggle for freedom from various people, who want to control them. The numerous personalities are delightful or appalling, and the moment......more