The Extraordinaries - T.J. Klune

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Title: The Extraordinaries
Author: T.J. Klune
Genre: YA, LGBTQ, Paranormal
Rating: 4/5
# pages: Audiobook, 13 hrs
Date read: July, 2020

Some people are extraordinary. Some are just extra.

Nick Bell? Not extraordinary. But being the most popular fanfiction writer in the Extraordinaries fandom is a superpower, right?

After a chance encounter with Shadow Star, Nova City’s mightiest hero (and Nick’s biggest crush), Nick sets out to make himself extraordinary. 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).


Quite different from T.J. Klune's other books - I'm amazed by how he keeps changing genres on us all the time. It didn't blow me away like many of his other books did (possibly because it's more obvious YA), but it's still really, really good :-D However, it's also a book that's really, really difficult to review without simultaneously spoiling it, so this will be short.

I love the characters. Klune writes relationships so well, and this was no exception. I adore the way he writes friendships especially.

I love the idea of extraordinaries. In some ways it reminded me a bit of "Scorcher" by Kelly Edwards, and I'm eager to see where Klune will take this in later books in the series.

I love the narrator. Michael Lesley is awesome.

The plot was perhaps slightly predictable? but so well executed, that I didn't really mind. Still, it's one of the reasons I subtracted a star.

But all in all I was not disappointed, and will definitely be reading on once the next books get published.