He makes you believe he actually is that hormonal teenage boy obsessed with extraordinaries… and I don’t mean that in the creepy way it sounded. Many narrators differentiate between characters with different voices, they also add feelings, but Lesley takes it a few steps further. So while I might have wanted to hit him over the head more than once, he was also perfect the way he was, I believed in him and his actions – might not always agree with them, but that’s on me.įinding a narrator or voice actor who genuinely performed the story and characters like Michael Lesley does is rare. Then again he’s the typical teen in that way and it fit perfectly with the essence of the book. For one he was just so self-absorbed, thinking the world revolved around him, never looking beyond the surface and missing things going on around him. So why didn’t I like him you might wonder. Anyway I didn’t like Nick much, but at the same time Nick was also what made this book so great and I wouldn’t change anything about him. … Or maybe I do… because they had some issues that I won’t go into as to not spoil things for you.).
My least favourite thing about this book was Nick (Well, I don’t count the villain. So I’m going to contradict myself here, but bear with me. To help others when we can, to see the people around us and open our eyes to truly see. We don’t need the superpowers or the capes, we only need to be the best versions of ourselves we can be.
We all have the abilities to be heroes in our own way. I mentioned powerful messages I a little while ago, and one of the most powerful of all was that you don’t have to have extraordinary superpowers to be extraordinary. I loved this gay gang, they were fun and happy and didn’t take crap from anyone. Fortunately for him he has awesome best friends in Seth, Gibby and Jazz who keeps him from going completely off the deep end – or well they did try. One day he has the (not so) brilliant idea of becoming an extraordinary – not entirely sure how, but he has plans. He writes fanfiction and trolls through social media for any mention of his crush. Nick Bell has a not so secret obsession the extraordinary called Shadow Star. The sadness and angst never felt heavy and the humour had me laughing the afternoon away. This book had many powerful messages, and dealt with many difficult topics, but Klune did it in a positive way. And he’ll do it with or without the reluctant help of Seth Gray, Nick’s best friend (and maybe the love of his life). But being the most popular fanfiction writer in the Extraordinaries fandom is a superpower, right?Īfter a chance encounter with Shadow Star, Nova City’s mightiest hero (and Nick’s biggest crush), Nick sets out to make himself extraordinary. TJ Klune’s YA debut, The Extraordinaries, is a queer coming-of-age story about a fanboy with ADHD and the heroes he loves.
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