Not Your Sidekick

, #1

Paperback, 283 pages

English language

Published Nov. 8, 2016 by Duet Books.

ISBN:
978-1-945053-03-0
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3 stars (2 reviews)

Welcome to Andover… where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without superpowers and is merely looking to beef-up her college applications when she stumbles upon the perfect (paid!) internship—only it turns out to be for the town’s most heinous supervillain. On the upside, she gets to work with her longtime secret crush, Abby, who Jess thinks may have a secret of her own. Then there’s the budding attraction to her fellow intern, the mysterious “M,” who never seems to be in the same place as Abby. But what starts as a fun way to spite her superhero parents takes a sudden and dangerous turn when she uncovers a plot larger than heroes and villains altogether.

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reviewed Not Your Sidekick by C. B. Lee (Sidekick Squad, #1)

Not Your Sidekick

3 stars

A questa recensione devo necessariamente premettere che non vado matta per le storie di supereroə: finora non mi è mai capitato che una di loro mi colpisse al di là di una generica piacevolezza. Not your sidekick non ha fatto eccezione e mi ci sono avvicinata solo perché mi sembrava una storia abbastanza bellina da valere la pena di mettere da parte i pregiudizi.

In effetti, ho riscontrato solo due difetti in questo libro. Il primo riguarda il fatto che ci mette davvero troppo tempo ad arrivare al dunque, un dunque ampiamente telefonato che alla fine coglie di sorpresa solo la protagonista. Il secondo difetto – che in qualche modo va a mitigare il primo – è che non sono decisamente nel target anagrafico del romanzo: sono abbastanza convinta che se lo avessi letto a quindici anni lo avrei apprezzato di più e non lo avrei trovato così scontato – …

reviewed Not Your Sidekick by C. B. Lee (Sidekick Squad, #1)

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2 stars

I really wanted to love this one. Everyone loves this one. An Asian-American girl from a family of superheroes dealing with not having powers and having a crush on a girl from school. But there was no completed story in this book. It is the first of a planned trilogy but if you are going to do that, please have a full story in each book within a larger story that unites the three. In this book nothing is resolved. There were a lot of tired superhero tropes too. The most annoying was not realizing that you are talking to a person you know because they are wearing a costume. It could have been funny if it wasn't drug out so long.