Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

It is not about The Shadow at all because (1) this character has almost nothing to do with the classic character and (2) the story is about the new Mary Sue viewpoint character. Plot holes abound. Internal logic is rare. A writer who invents new superpowers for these characters does not know they didn’t need those powers in the first place, has no clue what ever made the stories work. This Shadow never owned a hat (even though just about every man in the 1930s wore hats), shoots lightning from his hands, and transforms into an cat. Minor quibbles? More like they reflect the story's general disdain for anything that made the character The Shadow in the first place. A cat. He turns into a cat. And the viewpoint character turns the story into YA. The slogan, “Crime has a new enemy,” fits her, not The Shadow. The book is about her. Do not read this. Read one of the 300+ originals or more recent graphic novel versions instead. Matt Wagner, Michael Uslan, and (though a little less recent) Dennis O’Neil knew what lurks in the heart of The Shadow stories.