Faye had never felt like an ordinary teenager, but on her seventeenth birthday she began to feel even more like an outcast. All her life she had worked, scrimped and saved every penny after paying the bills and buying the groceries for her and her mother. She never went out, brought new boots, or had much fun, all so she could buy herself a car and no longer have to take the bus to school and work. The day finally came to use it, and it was that day everything started. Humiliated by the actions of her brave new self, she speeds away and destroys the car, but more worrying, she's now seeing and hearing things that just aren't there. Then there's the string of obsessive boyfriends around her mother and her own confusion about the new people entering her life. Faye is a teenager all right, but she is about to discover she is so much more.

Super Me by Jessica Dazzo is probably best classed as a paranormal/horror story. Faye is a stubborn, determined character with the emotional ups and downs expected from the average teenager. Drama, questions, suspense, and a touch of the paranormal come together to form a young adult read that will keep you turning page after page until you get the answers you seek. Why is Faye seeing and hearing these things, what secret is Lucan guarding, and why is she having a recurring nightmare? With a cast of believable characters, settings, and happenings, you'll be sure to enjoy watching events unfold. As the first book in the series, it offers enough intrigue to tempt readers into picking up the next book when it is available.

Super Me by Jessica Dazzo is the first book of the Super Series. In it we meet Faye, just the average teenage girl lost in a sea of students who always seem prettier, smarter, wealthier. The product of a single-parent home, Faye works hard to help her mother pay the bills, and what little money she has left, she has saved for a car. Her dreams are cut short when she totals her car. How she managed to escape unharmed is the first clue of many that the unremarkable Faye may be more special than anyone ever imagined. In Super Me, Jessica Dazzo weaves a suspense-filled thread of paranormal intrigue through a quite enjoyable contemporary young adult story. Faye’s struggle to balance home life with a job, school, and friends is something that both adults and teens can relate with. Her weirdly budding romance with the new kid in town challenges her to step out of her comfort zone and open up to the promise of a better tomorrow.

I especially liked Faye’s relationship with her mother, and how in many ways Faye is more mature and responsible than her caregiver. And whether she realizes it or not, she has the power to effect change. Her journey to self-discovery is pitted with the same mundane misunderstandings of jealousy, humiliation, and reality checks that all high schoolers must face, although the outcome is far more extraordinary. Dazzo has created memorable characters and twisted identifiable drama and angst into a dynamite paranormal novel that is a true pleasure to read.