The Shadow Threat

[cornerofmadness]

The Shadow Threat by Claudia Gray

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Another tough one to rate. I gave it what I thought the story deserved vs my actual feelings on it because I don't think the art nor the storyline is bad. The story just isn't for me. I admit it, I was never big on Supes as a solo hero (or any solo hero, I was always about group dynamics) and I know that Kryptonian scientists missed out on their world dying but before the TV show Krypton were they depicted as horrible caste-bound jackasses?

I didn't like the TV show and I didn't honestly like this much either for that reason. Eugenics is gross and that's the crux of this story. Zahn Re is a Re i.e. genetically engineered to be the best/smartest etc. Sera is an Ur developed to die as a soldier, no fear, unable to NOT follow orders etc. Lara and Jor-El are working to save the planet but have been listed as near radicals.

Zahn is also going radical because the ruling tribune are lying to the people and getting them killed. Sera is being sent off world repeated to terraformed worlds the tribunal are pinning their hopes for the future on but it's failing.

The solution to all this? More eugenics. And yeah with that I'm tapping out. I don't like caste systems and there is just something gross about all of this.



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