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Londoner Maxim Trevelyan has breezed through life, relying on his good looks, connections, and money to get him whatever he wants. But, after a family tragedy, Maxim inherits his family’s noble title, wealth, estates, and...responsibility. He's unsure if he can rise to the challenge, and that uncertainty doubles when Alessia Demachi enters his life. She's a mystery to Maxim, and that just makes him want her even more. Before long, his desire for her develops into a fiery passion, unlike anything he’s ever experienced.

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Since Moore's intentions are admirable, it's tempting to gloss over the book's poor execution by praising it using plenty of qualifiers. (" Hero is the best YA novel featuring a gay teen superhero I've read all month!") Unfortunately, I just can't bring myself to use the words " Hero" and "best" in the same sentence. Well, in a pinch I could probably force myself to say, "I read Hero while staying at a Best Western," but even that would be a lie. It wasn't all that original, really: all the superhero characters were basically the ones we all know, but with their names changed; I've read the same situations when it comes to coming out and being gay in a million stories online; and saving the world is saving the world is saving the world. The only really new thing was that Thom Creed is gay. That part actually kind of bothered me. Everyone in this book seems to know about Thom's sexuality even before he admits it aloud, and nearly everyone hates him for it. Neither of those things are even remotely realistic. I mean, I've known for five years at least that I'm bisexual, but in all that time, no one has ever just guessed my sexuality. It's not like we have it stencilled on our foreheads. And, strangely enough, not everyone in the world is homophobic. Okay, it's a book, it's fiction, it's not meant to be realistic, but... Perry Moore is gay himself, right? I can imagine that since he's openly so, he's had some of that experience, but I can't imagine that everyone in his world immediately condemned him because he's gay, because that's just not what happens.This is an excellent book. It is not only for gay teens or fans of comics. It appeals to everyone who has ever felt rejected, outcast, or uncertain whether their friends would like them if they knew what was going on under the surface... and who cant relate to that?

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It also kind of made me wince when Thom's mother said that her career didn't matter because she had the man she wanted, and also at the way she dismissed any idea that Hal might be biased in thinking that she should give up her career because she's the woman and "second rate". I have no idea if Perry Moore realised how that scene would come across, but ouch. Elle is totally busted when her (um, really attractive) boss Colton catches her using the photocopier to ***take pics of her ass*** for a risky dare from her bestie. In short, she's super embarrassed that her tall, dark, and sexy superior saw her in such a NSFW situation. But it might work in her favor as she works toward taking on the biggest dare of them all: Making Colton fall in love with her. This is what you call a superhero novel with a message, that message being "Gay is okay." So, wonderful, it's a message I can support, but a redeeming message is not enough to make me love a book, and this book, while not bad, and certainly not disrespectful to the superhero genre, didn't really do anything original except make the hero gay. In fact, it was overall a pretty derivative story and I doubt it would have gotten much attention at all (or even published) if not for the central theme, that Thom Creed, the title hero, has two "secret identities," one as a superhuman, the other as a gay teenager whose famous ex-hero father is also a bit of a homophobe. Erotic romance books let you explore fantasies from "friends-to-lovers" to "forbidden boss" tropes.

Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options. A longtime fan of children’s literature and comic books, Moore’s first novel, Hero, the first of a fantasy series about a group of modern-day superheroes, tells the story of the world’s first gay teen superhero. A big screen adaptation is in the works with Stan Lee. Follow Me Darkly has many similarities to 50 Shades of Grey: There’s an innocent young woman with big dreams who catches the eye of a billionaire. The two start dating, and the woman (Skye Manning, FYI) realizes that her new love has some dark desires. While I can try to appreciate this novel's desire to represent gay boys, it does so at the expense of girls, gay or not, reading this book.

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And on the off chance you haven't binged the Netflix series yet, the Bridgerton series is about each of the Bridgerton siblings finding love and marriage in high-society London in the early 1800's. Each book tells the story of one sibling's romantic journey. This first novel in the series, which the first season of the show follows, is about Daphne falling in love with the Duke of Hastings, who also happens to be her older brother's best friend. In a world where superheroes are real, Thom dreams about joining The League, a band of A-list good guys who protect the citizens of their fair city. He also dreams about one of the most famous (and dreamiest) superheroes, Uberman. Thom's keeping a lot of secrets, not the least of which is that he's got superpowers and has been invited to try out for The League. He knows his dad would flip if he found out. His dad used to be a hero, one of the greats. But then he was maimed in a catastrophic accident during a rescue mission that went terribly awry. Now Thom's dad is a pariah and blamed for hundreds of deaths. He's sworn off the hero stuff for good and Thom knows that there's no way he'd let him join The League.Now Ruth was honestly amazing. She was a lovely old lady with the ability to see the future. On the rag tag team though she was really quite stunning. Because she was so clever and knew what to say. She was the only one who really accepted Thom at the beginning and that was great. She stood by him and stood up for him until the very end. Her death was horrible because of how much it tore Thom up really. You could see it kinda devastated him. She was a guiding path in his superhero journey so the only way he could stand on his own two feet was if she died. Sad but true in this case. Helen Hoang brings you the unusual romance between a male professional escort and a math genius with Asperger’s. At her university graduation party, Lia receives a beautiful wine cup decorated with roses. Almost immediately, a family friend, August Bowman, tells her it's a rare ancient artifact instilled with the power to bring the most intimate sexual fantasies to life. Of course, Lia doesn't believe him, so August dares her to try it. Not only does the cup's magic work, but it allows Lia and August to live out their wildest, sexiest dreams—together. Throw in a zany cast of outcast potential superheroes, a dark stranger following Thom everywhere he goes, and a disappearing mom and you've got Hero. The book has issues to spare... family issues, abandonment, sexuality, and characters facing death every other day... Through it all, Thom is learning to trust who he is, to show who he is, and to see beyond the faces that everyone else shows the world. So, someone said this book was cute. And I thought, "I can do cute." They said that it was gay superheros. I though, "I could do gay superheros."