We get the parental angst as teen daughter Anna is doing the secretive thing and not talking with those who could give support and advice if she’s developing superpowers. Once you have that under your belt, you can absorb the idea this is both an adult and a YA book. To avoid repeating myself, I invite you to read the review of the first book After the Golden Age, because all that stuff about parenting is relevant to this sequel. That’s why she’s not only watching her own children like a hawk (well-known detective without superpowers), but also monitoring what’s happening to the other families that were exposed to the trigger radiation all those years ago. Even if the genetic quirk does not kick in on one generation (she did not have any superpowers), the same percentages apply to the next.
Being a numbers person, she’s calculated there’s a 40% chance of the next generation having superpowers. All of this is, of course, under the shadow of superpowers. Having watched Celia work her way through the early years of living with two superhero parents, we now get to watch her try to make a better job of bringing up her own two girls. Arthur Mentis, a superhero with mental powers, and has two teen daughters, Anna and Bethy.
Moving forward some twenty years or so, Celia West is now a dedicated mother and dynamic business woman. Dreams of the Golden Age by Carrie Vaughn (Tor, 2014) gives us the sequel to After the Golden Age (2011).
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