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Not Your Sidekick

  • 2016 first published
  • 283 pages
  • 2 editions

Published in 2016, Not Your Sidekick is an M/M romance and gay fiction novel by C. B. Lee. It features Abby Jones, Bells Broussard and Brendan Tran. Key subjects include magic, high school students, internship programs and heroes.

30 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list.

It runs to roughly 283 pages — 5–6 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Not Your Sidekick

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.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Characters

  • Abby Jones
  • Bells Broussard
  • Brendan Tran
  • Emma Robledo
  • Jessica Tran

Subjects

  • Magic
  • High school students
  • Internship programs
  • Heroes
  • Lesbian teenagers
  • Superheroes
  • Queer
  • Young Adult
  • Young adult fiction
  • Science fiction
  • LGBTQ+
  • LGBT
  • Romance
  • Gay lgbtq+
  • Action & adventure
  • Dystopia

Quick answers

Who wrote Not Your Sidekick?

Not Your Sidekick was written by C. B. Lee and first published in 2016.

What genre is Not Your Sidekick?

It is usually shelved as M/M Romance, Gay Fiction, Lesbian & Sapphic Fiction and Queer Fantasy.

How long is Not Your Sidekick?

The median edition has 283 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Not Your Sidekick?

Readers who like it often enjoy Of Ice and Shadows, Winter's Orbit and The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic.

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