I wanted to like Mr. Proehl's book THE NOBODY PEOPLE with its sort of superhero story line that is really more a tale of the struggle of being different, of otherness. The book starts with a father and a daughter. The father knows that his daughter is different, not just in small ways, but in large, startling, otherworldly ways that put his daughter, Emmeline, in danger. Emmeline invariably meets her own kind.
These gifted people are all craving for a degree of normalcy, but it is not to be. Their own own government is against them and has passed discriminatory laws. There are mobs that are acting out in hatred against them. The gifted group or nobody people, must risk everything and band together as one to fight against the discrimination, hatred and fear that has arisen against them or die trying.
It sounds good, but it is in want of more focus and more resolution even though it is part of a two part series.
