Hero

This was a really fun book. It's a YA novel, and reads like one. It's not great prose, there's a lot of exposition, and it's not even that original. But the plot and the characters made up for its shortcomings. It's a coming of age tale of a teen boy who turns out to be a superhero and gay and tries to hide his identity from his father who is both a failed superhero and homophobic. The book was nominated for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award in 2008 and won the Lambda Literary Award for Children's/YA novel in 2007. Despite its accolades, it's not a great book, but I really enjoyed the heck out of it.

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