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Actually Super
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A globetrotting novel that takes a determined teen from Japan to Australia and to Argentina and Mexico on a quest to prove that humanity is more good than bad from the author of Let’s Get Lost and Before Takeoff.
Isabel is having an existential crisis. She’s three years into high school, and everything she’s learned has only shaken her faith in humanity. Late one night, she finds herself drawn to a niche corner of the internet—a forum whose members believe firmly in one thing: that there are indeed people out in the world quietly performing impossible acts of heroism. You might even call them supers. No, not in the comic book sense—these are real people, just like each of us, but who happen to have a power or two. If Isabel can find them, she reasons, she might be able to prove to herself that humanity is more good than bad.
So, the day she turns 18, she sets off on a journey that will take her from Japan to Australia, and from Argentina to Mexico, with many stops along the way. She longs to prove one—just one—super exists to restore her hope for the future.
Will she find what she’s looking for? And how will she know when—if—she does?
Isabel is having an existential crisis. She’s three years into high school, and everything she’s learned has only shaken her faith in humanity. Late one night, she finds herself drawn to a niche corner of the internet—a forum whose members believe firmly in one thing: that there are indeed people out in the world quietly performing impossible acts of heroism. You might even call them supers. No, not in the comic book sense—these are real people, just like each of us, but who happen to have a power or two. If Isabel can find them, she reasons, she might be able to prove to herself that humanity is more good than bad.
So, the day she turns 18, she sets off on a journey that will take her from Japan to Australia, and from Argentina to Mexico, with many stops along the way. She longs to prove one—just one—super exists to restore her hope for the future.
Will she find what she’s looking for? And how will she know when—if—she does?
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Sarah Gdub
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“4.5 stars
This was the most unique story of someone discovering themself. Taking on adventures around the world, looking to find the “super” in the ordinary. One doesn’t have to look around for this power to know it’s always been nearby.”
CaylieRatzlaff
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“Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC of this novel. 3.5/5 stars.
I really enjoyed the premise of this as Izzy leaves everything she's ever known to go search for those with super powers (and also escaping a conspiracy theorist and conservative father). The search for supers takes Izzy all over the world where she meets new people and experiences humanity. The book alternates between her trip and her two friends at their designated meeting spot a year later...where Izzy has failed to show up.
I think this book struggles, though, because it switches too much between those with super powers aren't real and they're just humans and people with legit powers. Like, I thought it was about finding the good in humanity and then all of a sudden there are legit powers that are unexplainable? It just kind of felt weird, almost.
I really did like the characters and this journey Izzy went on, though.”
Capd
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“Well. This is the first book to give me goosebumps.
As someone who often feels the ills of the world are very heavy and overwhelming, this book deeply resonated with me.
Isabel grew up with a grandmother whose parents survived the holocaust and whose father thought and later spoke terrible things about most people. The negativity, the hate, the anger and the hurt she saw so prevalent in the world drove her down into depression.
She finds solace in a corner of the internet where they believe super heroes to be real. And eventually she decides that as soon as she turns 18 she’s going to travel the world to find them as she is desperate to find the good in the world.
What she finds is a mixed bag of good and bad, her own powers and the peace in a quiet, simple life.
Her story is told in tandem with her friends’ Sam and Chio as they search for her after she fails to show to a promised meeting one year after her travels.
If you’ve ever felt squashed under the despair of the world, please read this.”
About Adi Alsaid
ADI ALSAID was born and raised in Mexico City. He attended college at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He’s now back in Mexico City, where he writes, coaches basketball, and makes every dish he eats as spicy as possible. In addition to Mexico, he’s lived in Tel Aviv, Las Vegas, and Monterey, California. His previous YA books include Before Takeoff, Let’s Get Lost, Never Always Sometimes, North of Happy, Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak, and We Didn’t Ask for This.
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