Since seeing Gwenda Bond at ReadUp Greenville in October, I’ve read all three of her Lois Lane books. She’s taken the iconic Lois Lane character and given her a spunky, sassy personality. This third book in the series is no different.
Teenage investigative reporter Lois Lane has seen some weird things since moving to Metropolis: cloning, mind-melding experiments, and cyber bullying. Through it all, Lois has found a set of in real life friends (something she’s never had before because of moving around for her dad’s army job) and online friends (like her mysterious SmallvilleGuy). In this book, Metropolis is full of weird sightings of silver-tinged teens doing superhuman things, like lifting cars and flying. Lois decides to start investigating for her newest Scoop article but soon realizes that these teens have an odd fascination with her. To make things more complicated, her cyber-maybe-more-than-a-friend SmallvilleGuy is coming to Metropolis for a birthday trip which means they will finally get to meet in real life. Lois is also still trying to figure out if another online acquaintance TheInventor is a friend or foe, especially when he leaks a list of usernames to the government to retaliate for Lois’s snooping.
This book focuses more on Lois’s personal life than her news story this time, which is fine, but it makes the news story seem like an add-on story. She does (finally) figure out why these silver kids are trying to recruit her, but it wasn’t because of her investigative skills. She found out more because she lied to her friends and charged into trouble without thinking things through.
Overall, it was good book, especially since you’re already invested in the characters and their outcomes from the previous books.
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