Lilly wants nothing more than to be a superhero; to save lives, right wrongs, and bring justice to the bad guys. But she's a Norm, meaning she wants to take on powerful villains with no powers. Her best friend and roommate Rose tries to talk sense but Lilly is undeterred, ending up in seep trouble rose may have to save her from.

The idea of a school for superheroes and villains is cool but with this story being so short, I feel like it didn't have much of a chance to be explored. However, Lilly and Rose are a cute couple and the concept is interesting. Young adults looking for a quicky lesbian superhero story have a cute, clean read here but it flies by too quick for its own good. 3 out of 5.

This was a short story that actually left me wanting to know more.

It’s aesthetic of the story and the writing is not quite fitting for the cover, but I still really liked it.

That cover is without question BEAUTIFUL. It shows one of the main characters, Lilly.

But I seem to have a hard time really liking characters who seem ‘too genuinley good’. Lilly wants nothing more than to help people, even if it means following the really stupid plan of posing as a hero - in a world where there are actual superpowered heroes who STUDY how to be a hero for years -, even tho she doesn’t have any powers. And no, she doesn’t have any fighting skills to make up for it, just her good will. Which is admirable, but not smart.

But the thing is, what made this story so good for me, was the other main character, Rosey.

She’s posing as this normal girl who only wears white and pink and baby blue and does cosplay and spends all her free time in the library - and then you meet her with the villains she secretly belongs to and SCARES them to death and outsmarts and outwits them all. And find out that being a villain is her family business.

And I love every aspect of this. And my mind is running wild on what more you could do with a character like hers.

I want to know how her childhood was as the daughter of villains, who might accidently poison the other kids in kindergarden if she slips. I want to see how their classes at University actually work. I want to see the villain students pulling off an attack on the supers like the one Rosey presented to her ‘study group’. I want to see her parents and siblings meeting her goody-two-shoes girlfriend. Hell, I want to see her as grumpy teen doing an so-called ‘internship’ with her dad where she comes along with him as he’s robbing a bank.

And then this quote:
"Why couldn't you have been a hero?"
"Because I'm not one. My loyalty is to myself, to those I care about."

YES. I love it, because that is such a slytherin thing to say.

So yes, that was triggering my imagination, so that’s nice.

All in all, the story surely isn’t without its flaws, and I didn’t like all aspects of the ending. But it’s good to read, it’s a very cool idea and it created a world and characters with a lot of potential.