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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
7th Aug, 2017 10:07:59 PM
The Accidental Hero from the Jack Blank series?
Edited by jormis29 Working on cleaning up List Of Shows That Need Summary
saz197
Since: Jun, 2017
8th Aug, 2017 05:26:00 PM
@jormis29 Yes! Thank you, it's been bothering me for a while.
"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money." - Moliere
Okay, so when I was around 11-12ish I was browsing the fantasy and sci-fi section at my old local library, the middle grade section of course (i.e. books like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson), and I picked up a book that had a kid looking up at a gigantic statue of a superhero-esque person. The book cover was reddish and brown (though that detail is debatable), and I remember it was about this orphaned kid that the people who ran the orphanage didn't like because he read comic books rather than novels/novellas etc, but is one way or another whisked away to a magic city where people with powers and aliens and other species converge and meet, but the cities super secret so no one else can know about it.
I don't remember any other details other than there was a council within the city, there was a quarter full of viking-like people, there was a power trio with the main character, and there was this evil virus-thingy that was the big bad.