Flash Fire (The Extraordinaries #2)

Content Overview

Overall Content
Severity
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Language

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Alcohol, Drugs, Smoking

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Intimacy, Sex, Immodesty

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Violence, Weapons, Crime, Blood

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Potentially Intense Themes

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Flash Fire (The Extraordinaries #2)

TJ Klune

Flash Fire is the explosive sequel to The Extraordinaries by USA Today bestselling author TJ Klune!

Nick landed himself the superhero boyfriend of his dreams, but with new heroes arriving in Nova City it’s up to Nick and his friends to determine who is virtuous and who is villainous. Which is a lot to handle for a guy who just wants to finish his self-insert bakery AU fanfic.

-Excerpt taken from Goodreads.

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My Opinion

3 out of 5 stars (3 / 5) One thing I love about TJ Klune is his ability to make me laugh. I listened to the audio of book 1 last year and adored it. The narrator had the perfect voice with overwhelming drama- just as Nick is.  While I didn’t receive the audio this time, I received the book and still loved it. I could hear the narrators voice in my head. I missed the audio, but the book is just as funny.

Nick is easy to love. He’s eccentric with the biggest heart. His friends are perfect and I adored each of them. 

While I love Nick, I really despise his “teen boy brain.” Nick has no filter- which is absolutely hilarious in most circumstances. But when it comes to teen boy thoughts? Um no. I’ll pass. I was bothered many times! So yes he’s still funny but to really love it, I’d need it toned down. A lot! So while I love the story, the “teen boy brain” brought it way down for me.

There were some great twists, some predicted and some not but the ending will hook many!

Content Summary: Confession time; I did not fully review the content on this one. The first few chapters are so full of sex talk, porn, dirty phrases and more that I had to take a break. I do not love reading teen romance but when the details are given, I cringe. There’s nothing worse than hearing about a teen boy’s porn, his masturbation and more. It was too much for me. So I continued reading but without noting the content. The first two chapters are definitely the worst for the sex talk, and while it continues sporadically throughout the book, it’s not as condensed. Not noting each scene made it easier for me to skip when I wanted and just enjoy the rest of the story. So be warned, the sex is very high in this book. It talks about everything from porn and masturbation to “lubed bananas” and protected sex. All in great detail.

The violence included a lot of fighting between the heroes with civilians sometimes getting injured in the process.  There was not a lot of detail with blood (if any) but there was aggressive fighting. The language was high throughout but I only noted 2 F words. My assumption is that the language and intimacy would be 100, the violence about 50-70 and the rest zero to minimal.

I stopped noting the content after I finished chapter 4.

Thank you to Tor Teen for the gifted copy in exchange for an honest review.

The book releases July 13, 2021.

See the full content review of book 1, The Extraordinaries here.

Detailed Content Review

THIS IS AN UNFINISHED CONTENT REVIEW (note the content summary above)

Language 

F***- 2

H***- 13

S***- 13

A**- 5

B****- 1

D***- 17

Bas****-

Religious Cursing

J****-

Chr***-

G**- 15

L***-

Derogatory terms etc-

OMF

You dick!

Racist dicks

Alcohol, Drugs, Smoking

Intimacy, Sex, Immodesty

*Major LGBTQ+ aspects included* 

CHAPTER 1:

Male main character has a boyfriend. 

Two young women are dating. 

In a story, a young man puts his hands on a young man’s chest then “lower.. lower…” then they kiss. One “licked into his mouth” the other. One asks the other to “take him” so one starts undressing then they “rubbed their groins together hotly.”

Someone asks if the story is BDSM (erotic sexual practices that involve bondage and more).

A young man groans a young man’s names as they make out. One is very “turned on” and “all the blood had left his brain and traveled south.”

“…this was going to be a good surprise. With potentially good explosions.”

“Dad said he was going to get plastic tarps to cover all the furniture so they didn’t leave boy stains.”

A young man researches how to lose his virginity to another young man and “he’d come across an article titled “How to Be a Good Bottom” that involved detailed instructions and illustrations about things like the proper way to perform enemas to avoid any side effects, and wearing gloves for prepping so one’s fingernails didn’t cause damage to the interior of the anus.”

“the wide and terrifying world of being a modern queer man in the twenty-first century and all that came with it. Was he a twink? A twunk? A power top? A power bottom? A bear? An otter? (He didn’t have enough body hair for those last two, but he wasn’t ready to rule anything out yet.)”

“…simply tackling him onto the bed and sticking his tongue down his throat.(he), for his part, squawked, protested once through a mouthful of(him), then gave up entirely when (he)bit down on the skin under his ear, which immediately turned him into putty.”

“Would you like to take off your pants and stay awhile?” Two young men joke about “blowing” each other which was sexual but also funny blowing raspberries onto abdomens. 

A young man notices he’s “he was still thrumming with arousal” so types in his favorite porn site that showed men in “anatomically impossible” positions then found a video with “Boner Boy” having sex saying ““Superpound me with your Extraordinary penis! Fill me with your superqueero power! Yes! Yes!”

CHAPTER TWO

A father makes a “dental dam” for ““Protection during oral sex,” Dad said. “But not for penises. This is strictly for cunnilingus and anilingus.” He frowned, stretching one of the squares in his hands. “Or, as the kids call it these days, rimming.” Parents discuss how it’s used and what to use instead then wonder if a store downtown that has “mannequins in the window with the fun little red balls that go in mouths and attach to the head with black straps. I bet they’d have all kinds of dental dams.” They discuss a superhero costume being put on beforehand for “safety.” One mom says, “…you need to think with your heads and not your bits.” One father wonders if the superhero could burn his boyfriend during sex. A discussion follows about “fire dicks” and if “genitals could shoot fire, he wanted to make sure it was brought up because if that was the case, they needed to see if there was a flame-resistant material that could be used for condoms.”

“We’re not having sex. We like to make out and rub against each other without penetration of any kind. I haven’t even stuck my hand down his pants…should we decide to bone down….”

“They were together, and yes, it was after watching (his) dad make things to put on their buttholes, but still.”

A young man kisses a young man. They discuss having sex at one point but not yet. They also discuss that porn sex is not “real life.”

“I’ve had wet dreams that started like this.” Two young men are lying down kissing, grinding their hips together. Their blood was “running south” and “…if he wasn’t going to one day get that superqueero penis.” They sleep in the same bed together (sex not implied). 

Violence, Weapons, Crime, Blood

Potentially Intense Themes

**Any quotes from the book are taken from the advance copy and therefore may not be fully accurate or correctly compare to the final copy of the book.

**As an Amazon associate I earn from qualifying purchases. 

3 Comments

  1. Yeah no thanks, I’m sure that teens are quite preoccupied by sex but I don’t know why they’re having straight older women review these books, absolutely the hell not for me

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