1/26/21: happy book birthday!! (aka release date)

GIVE ME MORE PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS IN LITERATURE. thank you.

This book was such a wholesome story under complicated circumstances and I was so attached to the main characters T_T

— overall thoughts: 4.5 —

“Extraordinary comes in many forms. You never realized that, and that pushed her to find it elsewhere.”

I loved that this wasn’t a romance, which might be a deal breaker for some people but it was so refreshing to read about the platonic relationship between the characters in the midst of the chaos. I feel like we need more of that in literature. As much as I love a good romance, there’s something heart warming about friends just being friends in a story that doesn’t take itself too seriously. But still made my heart soft.

We Could Be Heroes is an Adult Science Fiction/Contemporary standalone about a vigilante and a bank robber who lost their memories. I am sucker for stories about lost memories. The endearing characters hooked me from the start and I really did find myself smiling while reading.

Neither of our mains are what I would call a ~hero or a ~villain. Maybe antiheroes would be the grey area but at the core of it all, they are flawed people who want to make the most out of the cards they were dealt with. Jamie is definitely that person who just wants to escape into an island while reading books and drinking coffee with his cat (this is canon and honestly, this would be me). On the other hand, Zoe goes about arresting “bad guys” like… said bank robber. They meet in a memory-loss support group and the action-packed story takes off from there.

If there is such thing, this would be the book equivalent to a popcorn movie with diversity and LGBTQ+ rep (not a main focus tho). I do tend to look for antagonists with more depth rather and the tone of the story does take a different turn from what it was in the beginning.

Nonetheless, the ending was extremely satisfying with how everything came full circle and as a huge fan of all the Superhero CW shows, I loved this. Besides, the David Bowie and Alesso song plays in my head every time I see this book. It was so perfectly my type of story.

↣ Would definitely recommend if you are looking for an easy read and you’re not looking for a romance but enjoy good friendships. Especially stories with humor and a nostalgic factor. ↢

*Thank you to the publicist at -Harlequin/MIRA- for sending me an ARC for review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.*

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I truly am weak for friendship themes

two people who have no memories with superpowers but one is a vigilante and one is a villain? dichotomy between "good" and "bad"? I also see "pansexual villain" everything about this is intriguing to me.

this is like if you flipped addie larue and gave them superpowers