one of the best gay teen stories ever

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	• Hero Perry Moore Hyperion Book CH, 2007 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 70 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A teen is searching

for who he is, what he is, why he is; and can't understand why he's not getting the support of his family, friends, and coach. This sounds an awful lot like what a lot of guys and gals go through every day as they grow up. Adding to the mix is that the main character is gay and has super powers; and we have one mixed up kid. I'm not going to go into all of the plot twists as they have been thoroughly discussed in prior reviews. I'm going to say that having a character who has all of the angst, stumbling, and confusion of a teenager is good to see. We don't need the perfect heroes of Golden Age Superman, et. al., in this post-modern world; we need the fumbling, trying to grasp the essentials, uncertain teen with whom many of us do relate. It is certainly a story that I can relate to, as a 50 year old man who realized that he was different back in the era just after Stonewall. He can't talk with those around him because he KNOWS that they WON'T understand. How true that was and is. This is a delightful addition to the emerging gay literature market with a plot not dependent on "bodice ripping" scenes to fill out the story line. As I remember my years as a gay, oops, bi, oops situational homosexual activity, teen; the sex was not the issue, rather trying to figure my place in the vast scheme of life was. Despite so much focus on boys and their built-in toys in gay literature; most of my life was focused other things, and I appreciate an author who deals with the teenager the same way. Thank you Perry for a fun story.

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Simply amazing

yes there are some parts of the book where you want to just flip past but as a whole, i think this novel was very well constructed and had a very genuine meaning to it. the characters were well developed, it is definitely a different angle on the "heros" type theme, and the ending was extremely well written!

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Hero

I loved this book! It was a wonderful read and such a great story about a teen ager and his dad and their struggle to connect. The action adventure aspect of the super heroes made this one of the fastest reads of the summer. I heard about the book in a magazine and hope and pray that it is the first in a series!

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one of the best gay teen stories ever

I'm 16 and am an out teen and I absolutly adore this book and story. I'm currently on my second read and I keep falling in love with the story and characters. I do and have recomended this book to anyone and every-one who has ever felt different for any reason.

One of the things I liked the most about the story is that the characters are real and its almost like you know them peersonaly.

The main character Thom is your average teen-ager who plays basket-ball and volenteres at a comunity center and is strugling with his sexuality and the manifestation of a super power. Now, he isn't your run of the mill villian pounder he is an exceptial chalenge to the rule that heroes need to be able to shoot lasers from there eyes or run at super speed and/or fly. He has the important role of the a healer. I foun this a wnderful mesage to myself and any reader that to heal is always better than to hurt and fight and that there are other ways to be super.

*****

review by Peter Hoban

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HERO's journey

This is a marvelous book. Part Harry Potter, part Incredibles, a touch of Sky High, the novel ultimately stands on its own originality, so much so that it's as if those other titles were merely working towards this one.

The characters are so well drawn that I feel as if I've known them all my life. Each has his or her own dark secrets and this is the universal level upon which Perry's novel speaks to all of us. We have all felt, one way or another, regardless of race or sexual preference, as if we were different from everyone else in the room, and that is in fact true, no two human beings are alike, even twins; and we must each learn to embrace our originality and perhaps turn it to good use. It also addresses honestly, for once, the many-faceted human desire for hero worship.

Not a long diatribe on the sufferings of a misunderstood gay superhero in the making, but instead a surprisingly funny (sometimes downright hysterical) and deeply poignant study of a young boy growing into a good man, HERO is a gift for future generations. It is one many people will find comfort in reading, especially when carrying on their shoulders the heavy burden of who they really are.

It is my firm belief that Perry Moore may have saved lives with this one.

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