Jamie Baker, the only girl in the world with superpowers, has now accepted who she is and learned to control her power. Not to mention she has the best boyfriend on the planet. Life is finally looking good. But the day she witnesses an accident and decides not to save the guy out of fear of being exposed, she realizes that simply being Jamie Baker isn’t enough.
After seeing Jamie so wrecked with guilt, the ever-helpful Ryan Miller decides it’s time to make all of his fantasies about turning his girlfriend into an honest-to-goodness superhero become a reality.
Of course, coming up with a decent Super Name and fending off all of Ryan’s attempts to get her into spandex aren’t the only problems Jamie faces. The more her alter ego starts to make headlines, the harder it becomes for Jamie to hide her extracurricular activities from her best friend, the government, radical scientists, and the mysterious new guy who is determined to steal her from her boyfriend.
REVIEW:
There’s no doubt that Oram has a great YA voice. Jamie Baker, like many of Oram’s other heroines, is a smart, strong young lady who knows what she wants. In this case, Jamie Baker is struggling with coming into her own identity as a new college student, Ryan Miller’s girlfriend, and what, exactly, she’s supposed to do with her superpowers.
The last time she revealed her super-powers, it ended badly, so Jamie is determined to keep them under wraps. But when one of Ryan’s friends–and the boy who badly hurt Jamie’s friend Becky–steps into a busy street and Jamie does nothing to prevent the accident, she’s overcome with guilt. To assuage her guilt, she starts going undercover as a trendy superhero and wins the name “Chelsea’s Angel” (or “Super Babe,” but Jamie’s not having any of that).
Everything seems to be going well: Jamie is adapting to college life, Ryan is as hot as always, Becky is slowly getting interested in dating again–and then suspicious people start showing more interest in Jamie and her life than is normal. Jamie starts to investigate–and what she discovers may change her life forever.
The good: I thought the writing was fun and quick and Jamie was an engaging person to be around. I liked, too, that this seems to stand on its own pretty well (I haven’t actually read the first book). I liked, too, that most of the characters were more complicated than one would first give them credit for.
The bad: coming into the book without reading the first one, it was hard to see what was so swoony about Jamie’s relationship with Ryan, because there’s very little conflict between them in this book–it’s not about their relationship, it’s about Jamie figuring out who she is (and I have to say, I wouldn’t have minded a little more romantic tension). There is a potential love triangle, with the introduction of a new character who’s really into Jamie, but it’s pretty clear Jamie is not into him. The big plot twist at the end wasn’t actually all that surprising to me, but Oram pulls it off well and I’m interested to find out what happens to Jamie next.
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