This isn’t your ordinary superhero story!

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This book is laugh out loud hilarious and awkward, and I love it! Who can’t love a book with superheroes, fanfic writers, queer characters, and a fantastic friend group (Seth, Ginny, and Jazz are wonderful).

Nick, our main character, has ADHD (own voices) and a tendency to speak before he thinks about what he’s going to say, which leads to some hilarious dialogue. He writes fanfic about real super beings, the extraordinaries, that protect and attack Nova City where he lives. Nick has a huge crush on Shadow Star it’s so bad that when Shadow Star saves Nick and Gibby from being mugged Nick tries to kiss Shadow Star and tells him about the pillow with the hero’s face on it. After the encounter with Shadow Star things start to get real interesting (no spoilers!)

The standouts of this story are the father-son relationship, the ADHD rep, and the humor. It’s great having a present parent figure that is accepting of their child, open in their support and gets in some great awkward dad comments along the way. The ADHD rep is great and I appreciate that it is normalized and just another thing that makes Nick, Nick. The humor may be polarizing for some as it is awkward but it is very authentically teenager and I honestly loved it.

I would recommend this to anyone! It was so much fun to read even when we touched on some deeper issues. The character growth and relationships are great and this book is definitely worth a read. I can’t wait to read the next book because I have theories that I need answered!