How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying)
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Publisher Description
A romantic coming-of-age story about growing up, falling in love, and surviving life—all set in the world of superheroes—from debut author Cristina Fernandez, proving that you don’t need a superpower to be the hero of your own origin story, perfect for fans of The Rest of Us Just Live Here and Renegades.
* Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year 2023 * CCBC Choices Best of 2023 *
Falling for a superhero is dangerous. You have to trust that they’ll catch you.
Astrid isn’t a superhero, not like the ones she sees on the news, but she has something she thinks of as a small superpower: She has a perfect sense of time. And she’s not going to waste a single second.
Her plan for college is clear—friends, classes, and extra-curriculars all carefully selected to get her into medical school.
Until Max Martin, a nerdy boy from high school, crashes back into her life. Things with Max were never simple, and he doesn’t keep to her schedule. He disappears in the middle of dates and cancels last-minute with stupid excuses.
When a supervillain breaks into her bedroom one night, Astrid has to face the facts: Her boyfriend, Max Martin, is a superhero. Double-majoring as a pre-med was hard, but now Astrid will have to balance a double-life. This wasn’t part of her plan.
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When premed college sophomore Astrid Rose discovers that her boyfriend, Max Martin, is secretly a superhero, her meticulously structured life is thrown into disarray in Fernandez's imaginative debut. Even if Max doesn't always fit into Astrid's vision for her perfect future—he's consistently canceling dates, showing up late, or bailing halfway through—he's "annoyingly wonderful, a hearth through the short days of winter, a breath of fresh air in her dusty dorm room, a ray of sunshine breaking through gray clouds." But after Max saves her from a supervillain who breaks into her dorm room and reveals his alter ego, Kid Comet, she's enrolled in Eleanor's Finishing School for Superheroes' Girlfriends, a program which prepares superhero significant others for inevitable kidnappings and interrogations. As Astrid's plans are further disrupted by increasingly perilous superhuman hazards, she must rethink her future goals and her relationship. Nonlinear, alternating past and present chapters that chronicle Astrid and Max's relationship over the course of several years occasionally disorient. Nevertheless, through Astrid's keenly developed and fiercely independent voice, Fernandez adeptly examines the collateral damage and extraordinary stressors of living in a superhuman world, and resulting underlying trauma and anxieties. Ages 13–up.
