All My Friends Are Superheroes

3 ½ stars. It'll make you smile. The perfect mental gargle after a few heavy novels, creative and just plain fun. Fantasy with a judicious touch of magical realism, everyone in it's a superhero (except for the main character) but they’re subtle about it, we're not talking a bunch of flamboyant cape......more

Incredibly clever, for the most part. But there were other, smaller, parts that didn't quite work, and others (smaller still) that were too clever for their own good. I'm not sure that makes much sense, but you'll see what I mean if you read it.......more

This is such a nice, short fairytale. Nothing more. You can read it in less than a half hour. Makes you feel happy and full of awe at Kaufman's wonderful story writing ability.......more

there was a phase of my life when all i would read was YA contemporaries i bought from target with my babysitting money and obscure library books my mom found in women's magazine book recommendations. this is a relic from that era. part of a series i'm doing in which i review books i read a long time......more

I needed a short book to fill a gap and at just over a hundred pages, All My Friends are Superheroes fit the bill. It's not a very taxing read, but I also feel like that's one of its main problems. It's about an ordinary guy named Tom who's friends with a bunch of superheroes. He marries one of them,......more