TJ Klune follows up
The House in the Cerulean Sea with another compelling human drama that is set in a world like our own, but with a few unexpected fantasy elements. In
Cerulean Sea it was people with magical abilities; this time around, in
The Extraordinaries, it’s somewhat unconventional superheroes. Teen Nick Bell lives with his hard-working father and spends much of his time with a close-knit group of friends in Nova City, which is not remarkable in any way other than the fact that both a superhero and super villain also call it home. Shadow Star is the good guy, Pyro Storm is the bad guy, and although they have been around Nova City for only little while they have the entire city (especially the media) completely riveted. Nick is a devoted writer of fan fiction starring Shadow Star, on whom he has an enormous crush. It is, in fact, because of a brief encounter with Shadow Star that Nick embarks on the quest that largely propels the plot: he decides he wants to be “an Extraordinary” just like his hero.