On paper, Not Your Sidekick seems like a fairly standard YA superhero book. Girl daughter of two fairly well known superheroes, girl not born with powers, girl feels substandard compared to her "special" siblings and parents. Jess is resigned to the fact that she's going to live a life of doing paperwork and otherwise have a boring, normal life, when she applies for an internship position at Monroe Industries, a larger tech company. It turns out, however, that Monroe Industries is just a cover for Master and Mistress Mischief, her parents two arch enemies. From there, Jess begins her journey of self discovery and acceptance, while also uncovering dangerous plots that threaten the entire superhero/supervillain dynamic that the world has in place. 
 However, where this book really shines is in how wonderfully diverse the world is, and how easily that diversity fits in place. Jess comes from Asian parentage (I believe Vietnamese) and the area they live in is full of Southern and Eastern Asian cultural influences. Jess is also bisexual, and a very large portion of the book had to do with her crushing on her coworker Abby, volleyball captain at their local high school. We have characters who are on all ranges of the LGBT spectrum (including a ftm trans character who I believe is becoming the focal point in the sequel, which I'm looking forward to). Due to the futuristic world C.B. Lee has set up, harassment and persecution over what gender you identify as or who you're attracted to has taken a back seat compared to the near constant threat of super villains undergoing their devious machinations. It was refreshing to read a book with LGBT+ characters and not have one get beaten up due to their sexuality (granted, they do get beaten up but that's moreso due to the aforementioned superhero/supervillian fights than who they enjoy kissing) 
 Potential plot twists in this book are fairly obvious, although guessing the twists in advance did not lessen my enjoyment of the book. These are teenagers we're primarily dealing with and as such, they will make some stupid decisions and be quite dense when it comes to picking up on social cues that someone likes them. This book is also most definitely primarily set up for upcoming sequels. Although most of the character subplots (which were my favorite part of the book anyway) are resolved by the end of Not Your Sidekick, superhero related plots have been busted wide open and shown to be a much greater scope than the characters initially thought. I do hope that we get some famial resolution in book 2 regarding Jess and certain family members, though. 
 All in all, I really liked this book. It was cute, light hearted, superhero fun times that didn't take itself too seriously but had well fleshed out characters that I loved to be around. I am eagerly awaiting book 2's release in October.