Blackout by Robison Wells

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Synopsis:
Laura and Alec are highly trained teenage terrorists. Jack and Aubrey are small-town high school students. There was no reason for their paths ever to cross. But now a mysterious virus is spreading throughout America, infecting teenagers with impossible superpowers—and all teens are being rounded up, dragged to government testing facilities, and drafted into the army to fight terrorism. Suddenly, Jack, Laura, Aubrey, and Alec find their lives intertwined in a complex web of deception, loyalty, and catastrophic danger—where one wrong choice could trigger an explosion that ends it all.

I had a hard time with this book. The world building was not done as well as I would have liked. It's like the author wanted everything in the book to be taken at face value without anyone wanting any answers or for the author to delve deeper into the subject matter.  I didn't understand the exact goal of the terrorists or the purpose of infecting other people with superpowers.  I guess that could have been an accident that they did not account for.
The author never gives a definitive answer about any of anything. 
I liked the book but I wanted more depth. I wanted more from the characters other than saying that Laura wants to be in a position of power even though her comrades think that she is a pretty, dumb, and blond. That is literally all we find out about her over the course of the book.  I thought that the idea of terrorists that are super powered was an interesting one. It makes it more difficult to defeat an enemy that have an clear advantage over soldiers. It evens the odds to have other teenagers have powers as well but not know if there are terrorists among them. The whole concept was intriguing.