false 58 499 355 true 5678479 read 0 true 5497524 currently-reading 144 true 5497523 to-read 0 false 5564136 wishlist http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79078448 The Seven Rays (Hardcover) by Jessica Bendinger
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For the most part, Dull Boy takes fun tone to the whole superhero idea. Avery loves his powers sometimes- he can fly and he's super strong. But with all that, it's hard to control himself. He wants to become a hero, not just a boy with powers. Hence, him being relegated to a school for dangerous kids after trying to stop a bank robbery and failing.

At the school, and at a coffeehouse he frequents, he meets new friends. His old friends abandoned him for the most part, as Avery was constantly trying to find someone to help. (Think Incredidles.) With his new friends, they form a team of superheroes, trying to fight crime together. They laugh, they have fun, they fight and have the usual teen angst... and they beat baddies. Awesome right?

A lot of the book is made up of amusing ideas for the team to be heroes. There's also that Cherchette who's trying to recruit some of them... But there's also some real life issues: friendship, helping others, and believing in yourself to be good.

The climax is this huge action explosion that had me reading until late at night. The Cherchette plotline gets huge and there's lots of really interesting revelations. The ending is very open, and makes me wonder if there will be a sequel... one can only hope.

Final Impressions: Superhero fans rejoice. Sarah Cross delivers an excellent novel of teenagers just trying to fit in and be friends, but while saving to save others and each other. It's not uber-epic bad, where the kids are saving the world, but a lighter and sweeter tone. Just my cuppa tea.

]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76774946 The Ghosts Of Ashbury High (Hardcover) by Jaclyn Moriarty
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75085987 Five Minutes More (Paperback) by Darlene Ryan
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75085299 Beautiful (Paperback) by Cindy Martinusen-Coloma
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74903803 Numbers (Hardcover) by Rachel Ward
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