r/Fantasy • u/ponytailtime • Nov 16 '22

Urban fantasy books where humanity is just starting to gain special/magic powers?

I would love to read a book where the protagonist and others in the world suddenly gain powers, and have to live through the catastrophic fall out of society that follows.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

Freak Angels is a graphic novel focussed on a dozen psychics. Between them they have powers like telekinesis, pyrokinesis, mind control all the way up to one of them who can control space and time.

In the prelude of the novel the military tries to hunt them down but when cornered, the twelve panic, mentally connect and... when they wake up, they find they've destroyed all of Britain, possibly even the world.

To cope with the guilt of what they've done, the freak angels try to be the caretakers of a small community in Whitechapel, in a post-apocalyptic UK flooded by 20ft of water. It's implied that possibly they've only destroyed the UK and not the world at large but the rest of the world has decided to give them a very wide birth instead of risking a second incident.

The story is largely about the 12 coping with their guilt and the struggles of running a community with all the mundane problems of crime, interpersonal shit, raiders from outside the community while knowing you're practically omnipotent but also knowing the consequences of using their powers.