Commentaire de irisvht

I enjoyed Catwoman: Soulstealer quite a bit, but I also have a lot of mixed feelings about it…

First of all, I am not a DC fan, I am a Marvel girl all the way, but I love SJM, so I wanted to read this book and when I came upon a second hand copy of the Waterstones edition, I went for it.

I have to say, I am happy SJM got to write about Catwoman just because she is my favorite DC characters for one simple reason: cats. I loved them, that’s it.

And honestly, I could feel a lot of tropes and even (obviously) the writing style, that were typical to SJM. And usually that would be a recipe for a 5 star rating for me.

But this book felt a little out of it at times, at least for me. For instance, I felt like maybe the publisher or whoever, wanted that typical SJM’s main character plotting and the reader discovering the ‘how’ and ‘why’ later on. But it kind of fell short for me, because I just spent a good chunk of the book wondering why Selina was doing things and didn’t feel as smooth as other SJM books.

Also, might be a spoiler for some, but the romance was a little flat as well. SJM always makes me swoon. But this relationship was cute at best, because it started super late in the book and was sort of rushed, at least it felt that way to me.

But overall, I still enjoyed reading this book and wasn’t bored. It was still intriguing and action packed, just like SJM can write it, just with a lot of DC vibe to it.