Konrad Gaertner <kgaertner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:47EEAFAC.50371DAA@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Gene Ward Smith wrote:
>>
>> This book, rather strangely, combines the superheros are real idea with
the
>> angsty teenage gay kid growing up idea. Just why is hard to figure,
>
> Because angsty teenagers are the main demographic that reads superhero
> comics?
That makes sense, and the book was marketed as YA. But I wouldn't let that
scare you.
Anyway, I didn't see why you would need an additional marker for
differentness in either a novel about an angsty gay teen, or a novel about
an angsty teen with a troubled relation****p with his father who is
learning
about his superpowers, but admittedly that didn't stop Mercedes Lackey.
It's just that I kept trying to read it for metaphor, which I knew better
than to do with Lackey.
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