Not Your Sidekick, C.B. Lee
Not Your Sidekick, C.B. Lee
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Not Your Sidekick

Author: C.B. Lee

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged: 8 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/31/2018


Synopsis

Welcome to Andover . . . where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without superpowers and is merely looking to beef-up her college applications when she stumbles upon the perfect (paid!) internship only it turns out to be for the town s most heinous supervillain.

On the upside, she gets to work with her longtime secret crush, Abby, who Jess thinks may have a secret of her own. Then there's the budding attraction to her fellow intern, the mysterious 'M,' who never seems to be in the same place as Abby. But what starts as a fun way to spite her superhero parents takes a sudden and dangerous turn when she uncovers a plot larger than heroes and villains altogether.

About C.B. Lee

C. B. Lee is a bisexual Chinese-Vietnamese American writer. Not Your Sidekick was a 2017 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist in YA/Children's Fiction and a 2017 Bisexual Book Awards Finalist in Speculative Fiction. Seven Tears at High Tide was the recipient of a Rainbow Award for Best Bisexual Fantasy Romance and also a finalist for the 2016 Bisexual Book Awards in the YA and Speculative Fiction categories.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cece on December 27, 2016

I WANT BOOK TWO RIGHT NOW. IMMEDIATELY. GIVE IT TO ME. Ok, I'll try to be more coherent now. I think this book is fully deserving of 4.5 stars (damn you, Goodreads, for not giving me half star options!) and I am utterly in love with it. I am a sucker for superhero stories that are against the norm, s......more

Goodreads review by CW ✨ on November 24, 2023

Let me introduce to you my new favourite book. Not Your Sidekick is one remarkable, superpowered book. It has everything that I want in a book: it has superheroes and supervillains, a lovable Asian protagonist, gorgeous friendships, and heart-melting crushes. Though the pieces of Not Your Sidekick ma......more

Goodreads review by thefourthvine on October 22, 2017

I so very much wanted to love this book. I love the concept -- teenage mutant superheroes, with lots of different identities represented! -- but I did not love the execution. The worldbuilding was wildly inconsistent. We've got an earth where all the countries are different, where much of the world......more