Up to this point, I’ve read two out of the four books in TJ Klune’s Green Creek Series (excellent shape-shifter/werewolf series) and The House in the Cerulean Sea, a one-off novel that is much more gentler in tone/pacing than The Extradionaries. This is a review of the sequel to the first entry in the series, The Extraordinaries, which was in of itself highly addictive, strongly emotive, and just an all-around excellent read. Such a travesty given that the book deserves to live on in infamy for the profound role in played for setting the stage for TJ Klune’s Extraordinaries series.
The project has seemed to fade away into obscurity and the book itself is out-of-print at this point. Perry Moore sadly passed away before his dream of having a Starz television series for Hero was made manifest.
When you stand back and compare these two equally well-written books, it’s awe-inspiring to behold the progress that’s been made in society towards being more egalitarian of all the different shades and diverse spectrums of human identity. There are such big sociological differences though with these works and how each respective series’ queer characters are featured, Hero dealt more with the psychological struggle of coming-out, whereas in TJ Klune’s superhero series, beginning with The Extraordinaries, deals with larger societal conflicts because a character being gay just happens to be an attribute of the character, and less so something that sows self-hatred/self-abnegating feelings. Ten years later, TJ Klune has written a superhero series featuring a gay character as well. Which is a lot to handle for a guy who just wants to finish his self-insert bakery AU fanfic.”īack in 2008, when I was in high school, there was a superhero novel featuring a gay character that I really enjoyed called Hero by Perry Moore. Nick landed himself the superhero boyfriend of his dreams, but with new heroes arriving in Nova City it’s up to Nick and his friends to determine who is virtuous and who is villainous. “ Flash Fire is the explosive sequel to The Extraordinaries by USA Today bestselling author TJ Klune! Tor Teen (Publisher’s Website)/ IndieBound/ BookShop.Org/ Libro.fm(Audiobook)
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