NOVEMBER 2026
“Thrilling, subversive, and smoking hot. Kylie Cheung scours the veneer off tired genre-fiction tropes to reveal a radical vision of power, victimization, reclamation, and purpose. This is no Marvel movie—only Werner Herzog could adapt My Boyfriend, the Superhero.”
—Spencer Ackerman, author of Iron Man and Pulitzer Prize winner
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Kylie Cheung turns the superhero genre on its head in this dark, feminist exploration of power, policing, and violence.
A breed of newly arrived superhumans form an elite team that patrols and protects the world, keeping ordinary inhabitants safer. But criminology researcher Dr. Elisabeth Atwood disagrees, and after personal tragedy strikes, she becomes the face of a movement exposing the dangers of the superheroes’ unfettered power.
When Elisabeth finds herself in peril only to be rescued by the super-team’s charismatic front man, Kendall, the allure of the forbidden draws her into a steamy affair as unlikely as it is obsessive. Each time Elisabeth tries to end the relationship, she finds herself caught in a string of supposed accidents that insinuate Kendall back into her life. At first, it’s uncanny; then suddenly, it isn’t. It doesn't take long for Elisabeth to realize she’s been entrapped; what takes a little longer is figuring out how to free herself—and the extent to which that’s what she desires.
By turns erotic and deranged, My Boyfriend, the Superhero is a feminist psychothriller that courts ambiguity in this era of increasing surveillance and police violence.
More praise for My Boyfriend, the Superhero:
"Sex is back, baby! My Boyfriend, The Superhero is hot, chaotic, and political as hell. Kylie Cheung's debut novel hits like hard liquor, burning all the way down." —Ruth Madievsky, author of All Night Pharmacy
"My Boyfriend, the Superhero is a page-turning deconstruction of the superhero genre embedded into a steamy romance novel, and a Frankenstein-like cautionary tale about the monsters we create, but like in any sci-fi worth reading, Cheung's story revolves around a longstanding but particularly pressing societal question at the moment, which is why is it that we allow ourselves to live at the mercy of the violent and unaccountable carceral state for our own supposed safety? And what do we risk losing in our quest to stop it? It's also a reminder and a warning: never become horny. Not even once." —Luke O'Neil, author of Welcome to Hell World and We Had It Coming
“Through this searing, sexy, subversive take on the modern superhero story, Cheung brilliantly interrogates the horror of intimate partner abuse and the annihilating, might-makes-right power of the American carceral state. My Boyfriend, the Superhero is razor sharp, hot as hell, and deeply disquieting." —Dan Sheehan, LitHub