The Bell family is enjoying a period of domestic tranquility but there is something rather odd about it.

A thrilling story, although it did take me a while to get my bearings. However, it did have very stilted dialogue in places, stilted to the point where I wondered if it was parodying some newer tropes in fanfic that came into fashion after my slash days. ( )

This is very TJ Klune, by which I mean for me there's a little too much explained or detailed, but on the whole, it's a great closing book of this trilogy. This author excels at giving readers flawed characters doing their best despite temptation, and in layering in all the representations I crave in fiction. If you imagine the five stars zooming around and on fire, that accurately represents my enthusiasm for Nicky and all his friends and all their parents. I wish I could have had this trilogy when I was young. I am delighted young people have it now. ( )

So at the starting of this book I wrote: "Okay I am a little upset right now. I feel like Annie Wilkes when she talks about going to the movie and being left on a cliffhanger and then going back to see what happens and it is like the cliffhanger never happened. I am going to keep listening but right now I am a little annoyed." I pushed through though and kept listening to this audiobook. I am so glad I did. I laughed so much through several of the chapters. The things that Nick says I just couldn't help but laugh out loud about it. The ending was not what I thought it was going to be. I am think the series was nicely wrapped up. ( )

superhero fiction with gay and queer protagonists

I saw that TJ Klune had a new book out and scooped this up, but didn't realize it was #3 in a series that I hadn't started yet. You can read it as a standalone, but there are a lot of characters that are probably better introduced more slowly (as probably happened in the first book). Still, there is a lot of humor that will likely make these books easy favorites among fans.

I stopped at p. 40 but might come back to the start of the series

A fantastic conclusion to the Extraordinaries trilogy. Nick is still one of my favorite fictional characters. I love the way his brain works and that he unabashedly says whatever is on his mind.

This book made me laugh and cry multiple times and I highly recommend this trilogy to anyone that enjoys a great read.

I am looking forward to reading In The Lives of Puppets (a stand alone novel written by TJ Klune) when it releases in March 2023. ( )