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A review by lilyrooke
The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune
4.0
This was so cute and funny and original. Nick lives in Nova City where there are two rival 'Extraordinaries' - Shadow Star and Pyro Storm - whose aggression against each other keeps mounting, and Nick likes one of them in particular. He has a lot of feelings and writes a lot of fanfiction. But in school, Nick is also dealing with ADHD and conflicting messages from his sort-of-ex Owen and childhood best friend Seth.
Klune's witty dialogue steals the show, powering the story along and providing a lot of laugh out loud moments as well as some moving ones too, especially with Nick's dad. I didn't get much of a sense of place - although maybe that was the point, that Nova City could be anywhere? My biggest issue was with the cast of the police department, who all seemed incredibly chill about Nick's erratic behaviour, which, in a book about superheroes, stood out as the aspect which caused me to suspend my belief most.
Klune's witty dialogue steals the show, powering the story along and providing a lot of laugh out loud moments as well as some moving ones too, especially with Nick's dad. I didn't get much of a sense of place - although maybe that was the point, that Nova City could be anywhere? My biggest issue was with the cast of the police department, who all seemed incredibly chill about Nick's erratic behaviour, which, in a book about superheroes, stood out as the aspect which caused me to suspend my belief most.