Review: Adult Dystopian Fantasy?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 30, 2013
I enjoy 'end of the world' stories.  I love reading how people adjust and survive, what they improvise, how they get along, or don't.  This is not that.  This book starts with an unbelievable tragedy, although I was expecting something worldwide,  Then we're catapulted into the future and whatever happened after 'the tragedy' is left to our imagination. Next, the character is approached by a strange man who whisks her away from everything, the man she loves, the family she adopted as her own, her friends, everything, for the chance to avenge the tragedy. She's put into 'the bat cave' where she receives remarkable abilities that help turn her into her very own superhero.  She can run faster than a speeding bullet, climb the tallest mountain, bend steel in her bare hands.  Pardon me, my attempt at cynicism.  Meanwhile, we go back and forth to the ones she left behind, all the torment and questions with no way to find answers.  I didn't find this to be dystopian, we didn't experience the tragedy, it was just there.  With the new found abilities, the bat cave, and the angst, I'd call this more of a fantasy.  Enigma Black is book one of the trilogy.  I'm not sure I'll try book two.