‘Not all men have penises,’ Nick reminded her.

It’s your penis that’s making you do this.’ ‘This is why men don’t live as long as women,’ Jazz said. And since I don’t want to be mad today, I figure it’s better to be scared by jumping off a building.’

‘Because my powers seem to come out only when I’m super pissed or scared or some other heightened emotion yet to be discovered.

If he had nay hope to become just that, then he needed to listen to the concerns of his friends and not make them feel lesser for sharing. Patience, Nick knew, was a virtue and a sign of a good Etraordinary. That being said, Klune never loses Nick’s adorkable uniqueness, and we get gems like this: Nick discovers the big reveal, his mom was Guardian, and shit hits the fan with his dad and Burke, and it just ramps up from there. The big reveal at the end of book one, was definitely front and center through the first part of this book and was the primary crisis until Burke comes back on the scene. When Nick finally realizes he’s been steam-rolling Seth in his Extraordinary identity, he matures 100-fold in just a few pages, and it totally pulled at my heartstrings. Not only as individuals but together because they balance each other out and learn to interact as boyfriends and not just as best friends. The romance between Nick and Seth is wonderfully refreshing and they grow a lot in this book. (Chapter 1)Īnd that last line? Chef’s kiss perfection 😀 How dare straight people avoid these little boxes. Was he a twink? A twunk? A power top? A power bottom? A bear? An otter? (He didn’t have enough body hair for those last two, but he wasn’t ready to rule anything out yet.) Did the heter-oh-noes have to deal with this? If not, then it was homophobic in ways Nick couldn’t even begin to articulate. Like legit laughed out loud when I read the various conversations he had with himself and definitely remember looking up similar things and being just as confused!Īnd that didn’t even begin to cover the wide and terrifying world of being a modern queer man in the twenty-first century and all that came with it. I ADORED Nick’s trying to figure out where he belonged in the queer world. There’s still a bit of fanfic, there’s a lot of awkwardness and internet searching/discovery and there’s the most adorable budding gayby/biby (is that a thing?) relationship that just made me go awwwww so many times.įULL WARNING – DO NOT GO PAST THIS IF YOU DON’T WANT THE FIRST BOOK SPOILED and trust me you want to read these books! And what a joyous wonderful journey it is. We jump right back into the crazy world that is 16-year-old Nick’s brain. This book picks up right after where The Extraordinaries left off. I knew this one would have a big ol’ cliff hanger and be just as adorable as the last one, but I.

Flash fire the extraordinaries