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We Could Be Heroes
by Philip Ellis
I had a lot of fun reading though this cute and fun romance featuring a closeted actor playing a Captain America-style superhero falling in love with a part-time bookseller, part-time drag queen.
The main story/timeline started out with strong Notting Hill vibes, but evolved into something more like Alexis Hall's Boyfriend Material. The joyful parts of the story were really nice and though the tougher parts of the story were less enjoyable to read through, I think they made other portions of the story more meaningful and touched a lot on current events. While most of our time is spent with Patrick and Will, the supporting characters and the characters in the secondary timeline all seem very fleshed out and are fun to explore!
At first I was a little confused about how the secondary timeline really was going to weave it's way into the main story and honestly for the first few chapters of Charles and Iris, I thought that it was ruining the rest of the book. That being said, as it progressed, I started to enjoy their storyline and it led to a really rewarding payoff. I would have almost liked the Charles and Iris storyline to be it's own standalone book. While I don't think I would have wanted additional time spent in this book on it, there was so much more to explore in that story that I wish we had gotten a chance to see.
Thanks to NetGalley and Putnam Books/Penguin for providing an ARC of this book!
The main story/timeline started out with strong Notting Hill vibes, but evolved into something more like Alexis Hall's Boyfriend Material. The joyful parts of the story were really nice and though the tougher parts of the story were less enjoyable to read through, I think they made other portions of the story more meaningful and touched a lot on current events. While most of our time is spent with Patrick and Will, the supporting characters and the characters in the secondary timeline all seem very fleshed out and are fun to explore!
At first I was a little confused about how the secondary timeline really was going to weave it's way into the main story and honestly for the first few chapters of Charles and Iris, I thought that it was ruining the rest of the book. That being said, as it progressed, I started to enjoy their storyline and it led to a really rewarding payoff. I would have almost liked the Charles and Iris storyline to be it's own standalone book. While I don't think I would have wanted additional time spent in this book on it, there was so much more to explore in that story that I wish we had gotten a chance to see.
Thanks to NetGalley and Putnam Books/Penguin for providing an ARC of this book!