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A review by cpalmisanod
Actually Super by Adi Alsaid
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
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.
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.