Again with the YA and again with a book from my A to Z challenge. This one was considerably better than the last one particularly if you like mindless YA chick lit where the cool kids go geek and the geek kids gain some cool cred and they all live happily ever after – except for the cool kids who aren’t smart enough to go a little geek.
The Queen of the Cool: Fun. Easy. Mindless. Typical. Not bad at all.
I don’t know how or why I added Just In Case to my A to Z challenge list – if YOU were responsible for this, you should be shot. It felt a little like Gravity’s Rainbow for young adults. Weird. Weird. Weird. The only really good things I can say about it are – it was short and quick and I can scratch another book off of that darn A to Z list challenge.
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Awww, Empress of the World was sweet – predictable but sweet. Just the way all good teen love stories should be. And, the way all good lesbian teen love stories should be rather than all of that weird preachyness that we usually get with such books. I liked it.
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It’s all YA all the time for me. It seems like every book on my TBR pile is YA. Weird, but I like it except that it makes me want to do a year long YA challenge or something. Anyway, the YA I’m blogging about right now is QUEER YA! Hero was pretty darn amusing and that’s high praise because I don’t really love comic book heroes and that’s what this story is about.
A boy, who happens to be gay also happens to have super powers. He struggles with a dad who doesn’t have super powers but used to be a super hero and who doesn’t want his son to be gay. He struggles with a mom who left him when he was young and, well… I won’t give away more of the plot line.
There’s a very happy ending though not everyone lives happily ever after – which is as it should be in the world of comic book super heroes and families, right?
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