Superheroes are big right now, raking in millions of dollars in movie and merchandise sales (I should know…my son was Spiderman this year for Halloween). But what about the sidekicks? Don’t they get a story too? This book is the first in a YA series that revolves around Lois Lane, pre-Superman.
In Fallout, Lois is a high school student who just moved to Metropolis because of her military general father. She doesn’t have the best track record with her old schools, but she’s determined to make a new start at her high school. Meaning she’s going to keep her head down and stay out of trouble. It works for about five minutes, until she sees another student being bullied by a group of kids who are eerily connected. She quickly finds out through her new job at the teen Scoop newspaper, a small off-shoot of The Daily Planet, that this same group is targeting kids in a virtual reality game called World Wars Three. Lois, with the help of her online friend SmallvilleGuy and her new Scoop buddies, soon realizes how far this group is willing to go to get what they want.
This book was a splurge buy at ReadUp Greenville after hearing the author talk about it on the Girl Power panel. I enjoy superhero books and finding one that I think my kids would enjoy with a strong female lead sounded interesting. However, this book was slow to start. Maybe it’s because I’m nothing like Lois? Maybe it’s because her constant need to snoop around was slightly annoying? Maybe it was just getting a feel for the story and the whole virtual game aspect of it? I don’t know what it was, but I had to read half-way into the book to fully get invested in the storyline and characters. They grow on you the more you read, and by the end, I really liked the development of her friendships with her Scoop teammates.
If you have a teen into the DC comics world, this book would be an appropriate one to pick up for your middle or high schooler. And the story continues into two more books!
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