Thanks to NetGalley & Katherine Tegen Books for the copy in exchange for an honest review.

This superhero rom-com follows Astrid as she navigates her pre-med college life while dating a superhero who happens to be her best friend. This book is more about Astrid rather than her superhero boyfriend--fair warning--and it's full of college scheduling nightmares!

I would've rated this book higher if the flashback chapters in-between the story weren't driving me nuts! You'd get a cliffhanger and the next chapter it's just back to square one before they started dating and then the next chapter it's back to being intense. Just wasn't a fan of that pacing.

A very enjoyable read and I'm glad to see more superhero rom-com books being published!

This book is an interesting hybrid of a superhero and a romance — and I’m here for it! I loved hearing about a type A premed gal who finds out her longtime boyfriend has a secret identity. I loved her struggle to maintain her goals and stay driven while dealing with supervillains and finals. So cute!

I'm a sucker for any superhero book and I was so excited to read How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying). The premise is interesting, following Astrid as she navigates her superpower of perfect sense of time, and Max, a boy from high school. This story fell a bit short for me and I found myself wondering if I wanted to read to the end.

How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) is a refreshing take on people with "superpowers." I really enjoyed that it was told from Astrid's point-of-view (someone without superpowers) instead of from the superhero's POV. It made it more relatable. While superheroes don't actually exist, we can all think of people (famous or otherwise) that just seem to have these superhuman gifts. It was nice to see a character who finds happiness in living an ordinary life. College-aged characters seem to be few and far between so it was great to see this age group represented in the book. More action would have helped to speed up the pace in the story, which would have been nice since it did seem a bit too slow in places. All-in-all, I would definitely recommend this book to YA, friends-to-lovers fans!

This should have been a perfect book for me, but it just didn’t work at all. The jokes were not funny and I didn’t love the idea that this smart, strong, young woman willingly puts herself into a damsel in distress school. I am all for books about super heroes and comic book books, but this was just a swing and a miss for me.

I thought this was a creative and refreshing way to tell a superhero story. I loved the fact that it was set in college, I loved that Astrid was in a relationship with Max before she found out he was a superhero, and I liked the writing style a lot.
I also really liked some of the jokes that the author put in, like “wouldn’t you like to know, weather boy?”
A very cute and well-written YA romance!

Thank you to NetGalley and the author for the review copy in exchange for an honest review!

Have you ever wanted to read a book with Peter Parker as the main character?

How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) is definitely the book for you. I love Marvel and I get into it more my first year in college so a book about a girl dating a superhero while she was in college was calling me from when I read the plot of this story.

I will say this book got slower at the middle and it was harder for me to read but the ending. There were a lot of time jumps that were slightly confusing at first it was easier to read as time went on and I wanted to meet more of the characters, I wanted them to be my friends in real life

I loved the college focus of this book so I think teens around 15 and up would love this book, it would be okay for younger teens but I think that older ones thinking about college and looking at where they want to apply would love this book more and get more from it.

This book also made me want more superhero-themed books, there are so many moves about Superheroes but there are not a lot of books about them that aren’t Marvel or DC themed and I want more of them.

Overall this book was adorable and I would recommend it to fans of Marvel, College in fiction, and Sky High

Astrid has the perfect sense of time. She has her life all planned out down to the minute with medical school as her end goal. One problem is her growing relationship with Max who is secretly a superhero. Astrid needs to find time to spend with him as well as time to take a "surviving dating a superhero class." What ensues is a fun story of watching Astrid try to juggle this double life. I will be recommending to readers.

Thank you Netgalley for an e-arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Funny, poignant, and made me think. This new take on superheroes and us regular people is one that sure to be enjoyed by many of my students. I wanted to stay in this world a lot longer.

I thought this was a pretty good book. I enjoyed the superhero aspect, and the struggles with dating that goes along with superheroes. I really just struggled with the main character. I found her to be quite frustrating, and I would need to take a break from her pretty often.

This was a very enjoyable coming-of-age story. Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with the ARC.

Astrid has a perfect sense of time. Not exactly a superpower, especially not when you compare it to her boyfriend Max, actual superhero. He cannot follow her perfect schedule, canceling dates, running late, saving the world doesn't exactly follow a time line. Now she's adding Superhero Girlfriend classes to her already packed schedule.
I really enjoyed the first half of this book, but by the 60% mark I was beyond done. Our main character Astrid stressed me out, being in her head was so aggravating and where I hoped it would eventually help me feel closer to her all it actually did was make me want to fight her constantly.
I'm partially invested in the mystery, but it's really a close call to DNF'ing it. It keep waiting for the things were dealing with to be important to the story and then they're just... not?

Astrid is preternaturally good with time – she always know what time it is down to the second and she has every day planned in advance, down to the minute. She needs these skills to compete as a double major pre-med student and get into a good medical school. Every day, she’s juggling labs and clubs and studying – and carving out time for her boyfriend, Max. It’s hard enough to schedule time for a relationship, but Max sometimes doesn’t show up for dates, or has to disappear with a flimsy excuse. Turns out he’s got a good reason for all those excuses – he's secretly been moonlighting as a superhero. And once she knows his secret, Astrid has one more time commitment to fit into her schedule – a series of training classes designed to prepare her for her dangerous new role as a superhero’s significant other.

Something about this book did not connect emotionally for me in the beginning to middle, and I had a hard time figuring out what it was at first. This sense of detachment turns out to be deliberate, as Astrid tends to force down her emotions because she doesn’t have time to deal with them. Her level of driven-ness is irritating at times, but the author does a good job of weaving her personality into her backstory so that it feels like a natural progression from her history and her anxiety.

Astrid and Max are cute together, and I very much appreciated the scenes from the past that explained not only Astrid’s history, but their history together. There were a couple of little details that stretched my suspension of disbelief but overall, I really enjoyed the book.

Representation: POC characters, LGBTQIA+ characters, bi/pan major character, main character with anxiety

3.5 stars = Good+

Fun superhero fantasy/romance set in a world like ours, but with heroes/villains. The focus here is on Astrid and Max's relationship and how the superhero piece impacts them both as individuals and as a couple. There's a "side" mystery that I would have loved to see be a bigger part of the story. The ending was great. If there were to be more books set in this world, I would definitely read them. (Language)

Cute premise - Astrid is organized, driven, and successful. Her life is interrupted when she is kidnapped by a supervillain and subsequently rescued by her high school friend (and superhero) Max. When they begin dating her well-planned life gets jostled, to say the least.
Fun read, characters were a little flat, but overall I enjoyed the premise and their relationship. I just wish there was a bit more detail and dimension to Astrid and Max - surely they are more than the stereotypes they are painted as.
Thanks so much for the ARC!!

While this was a quick little YA coming of age in college story more than a superhero story there was just things that didn't jive with me. The schedules were insane and I really think Astrid needs to seek some help because she is going to have a break down with all the stress she puts on herself. Max was cute but could have had more character development. Overall this is an okay book, not bad but not great either, just a middle of the ground story in my opinion.

Wow, this was such a fun read and great for anyone who is feeling overwhelmed with wanting to do everything and anything all at once.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Astrid is a second-year pre-med kid who just so happens to be dating a superhero. Between school, all of her extracurriculars, and trying not to die at the hands of her boyfriend's enemies, she's got a lot on her plate.

For me, this book was stressful to read. I'm going into my second year as a pre-med major, and oh lordy, being in Astrid's head made me anxious. Astrid reminded me of my high school self and it was not a fun time to be back there. I think that this really impacted my ability to connect to the rest of the story because I was always keeping my distance from immersing myself in Astrid's perspective.

Also, not all premeds are as cutthroat as Astrid and Ben.

It's fun to find a book in the superhero genre thats refreshingly unique. Cristina Fernandez has done that by introducing us to a new group of people: the ones behind the scenes, the ones dating a superhero, the ones trying to balance their own crazy lives while worrying about supernatural threats to their loved ones.

Enter Astrid, shes the girl next door with super high expectations. She has difficulty balancing things and needs a calendar to schedule her entire existence. Makes perfect sense when you learn Astrid is in college and wants to be a doctor (and maintain her 4.0 gpa). It's unrealistic when your boyfriend, Max, is a superhero.

Hernandez has captured Astrid perfectly with her panic attacks and needing to have colored markers to schedule everything just perfectly And Max is the loving guy that would do anything for his girl (while saving the world). Nothing in this world is perfect - relationships, classes and super villians are real.

How to Date is a fun read from a debut author with a lot of promise. Those loving YA rom-com and books with heart while tackling issues will enjoy the ride.

Many thanks to NetGalley, Harper Collins and Cristina Hernandez for introducing us to the superheros behind the superhero. Thank you for true friendships and showing us what can happen when an ordinary person becomes involoved with a superhero.

This isn't a bad read, but I didn't love it. The premise is original with lots of fun details on the life of a superhero. This did read more like High School drama than a college setting. The timetable was a bit challenging to follow at times with the main character.

How to Date a Superhero (And not die trying) is a comic book come to life with a smidgen of romance.

Thank you HarperCollins Children's Books, Katherine Tegen Books for the complimentary copy of this novel.