The Man of Bronze

Lol this book man...a prime example of why James Patterson is a hack.

First of all, the plot is completely ripped from the Black Widow movie. A girl is taken from her real family as an infant to a school in Russia where she and other kids are trained to be killer assassins, but eventually she escapes, however she also eventually decides to return to the school to end it for good and free the kids still training there, and to do this she needs the help of her superhumanly strong friend.

Like?? How blatant can you be...

Admittedly I did take some liberties with the superhuman friend part, which is probably the biggest area of difference from the movie. She kidnaps this college nerd professor who she then somehow trains into being a literal Superman in 6 months. Huge suspension of disbelief required on that.. Its hand waved a little by saying his great grandfather had some experiment done to him so his genes are like exceptional or something. And his great grandfather's names? Clark and Cal, LOLL. Still trying to decide if this was superman fanfiction, captain america fanfiction, or black widow fanfiction.

Anyways with disbelief fully suspended it was still a generally fun read because I'm a sucker for comic bookesque stories so there's that.