Review: Decent concept, but flawed
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 23, 2013
Overall, the concept for The Games Heroes Play is decent enough, if a bit under-developed.  We get the idea early on that certain people are born with powers that manifest during their early teens, and if they test well they go to the Academy.  There's some pretty heavy similarities to the Harry Potter books, but the background isn't really developed well enough to allow you to get a feel for how supers have impacted the world.  The characters are reasonably well done, and I imagine they'll develop further as the author continues.  Where the book really needs the most help, though, is in the editing.  Errors abound, from switching tenses in the same paragraph to numerous homonym mistakes (passed instead of past, you're instead of your, etc).  All of those should have been caught during the review stage.  It's a quick read at under 150 pages, but I admit that with the errors I'm not sure I would have kept reading if it had been longer.