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A review by okevamae
How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) by Cristina Fernandez
4.0
Astrid is preternaturally good with time – she always know what time it is down to the second and she has every day planned in advance, down to the minute. She needs these skills to compete as a double major pre-med student and get into a good medical school. Every day, she’s juggling labs and clubs and studying – and carving out time for her boyfriend, Max. It’s hard enough to schedule time for a relationship, but Max sometimes doesn’t show up for dates, or has to disappear with a flimsy excuse. Turns out he’s got a good reason for all those excuses – he's secretly been moonlighting as a superhero. And once she knows his secret, Astrid has one more time commitment to fit into her schedule – a series of training classes designed to prepare her for her dangerous new role as a superhero’s significant other.
Something about this book did not connect emotionally for me in the beginning to middle, and I had a hard time figuring out what it was at first. This sense of detachment turns out to be deliberate, as Astrid tends to force down her emotions because she doesn’t have time to deal with them. Her level of driven-ness is irritating at times, but the author does a good job of weaving her personality into her backstory so that it feels like a natural progression from her history and her anxiety.
Astrid and Max are cute together, and I very much appreciated the scenes from the past that explained not only Astrid’s history, but their history together. There were a couple of little details that stretched my suspension of disbelief but overall, I really enjoyed the book.
Representation: POC characters, LGBTQIA+ characters, bi/pan major character, main character with anxiety
Something about this book did not connect emotionally for me in the beginning to middle, and I had a hard time figuring out what it was at first. This sense of detachment turns out to be deliberate, as Astrid tends to force down her emotions because she doesn’t have time to deal with them. Her level of driven-ness is irritating at times, but the author does a good job of weaving her personality into her backstory so that it feels like a natural progression from her history and her anxiety.
Astrid and Max are cute together, and I very much appreciated the scenes from the past that explained not only Astrid’s history, but their history together. There were a couple of little details that stretched my suspension of disbelief but overall, I really enjoyed the book.
Representation: POC characters, LGBTQIA+ characters, bi/pan major character, main character with anxiety