Author: Stephen Henning
Published: October 11th 2011 by Elucidox Ltd
Synopsis:
Teenage twins James and Samantha Blake are caught up in a seemingly random terrorist bombing while on a school trip. Many of their friends are killed. When the twins wake up in hospital, their lives have changed forever.
The doctors are amazed at the speed with which James and Sam recover from their injuries and, when the twins begin to exhibit extraordinary powers, it is obvious that something incredible has happened.
As James and Sam attempt to overcome their fears and embrace their new abilities, a series of murders and disappearances start plaguing the hospital. The twins aren’t the only ones with special abilities and it becomes apparent that someone is coming for them.
Will James and Sam be able to survive the nightmare into which they have been plunged? Who, or what, is behind the murders at the hospital? And was that terrorist incident quite so random after all?
Author Interview
1. Describe A Class Apart in one sentence and if you can give a tagline for it, what would it be?
OK. Teenage twins James and Samantha Blake
are injured in a bomb explosion, wake up in hospital, discover they now have
superpowers, but then realize something even more powerful is coming to get
them!
A tagline for the Class Heroes series, hmmm, you’ve made me think now! It hadn’t
occurred to me to do that before, thank you Rachel. Yes. I know what sums up
the ethos of the series:
“Today could be the day that your life
changes forever.”
2. What makes the Class Heroes series stand out from the rest of the other YA books out there?
I think the main characters and the general
background of the seriesis more grounded in reality than other YA books.
I think what YA books do well is to create
a heightened, fairy tale ideal of our world.
Love stories are powerful and all-consuming, main characters are driven
by a sense of destiny, the fate of worlds is held in the hands of higher
beings. I think that’s great because it fires the reader’s imagination.