Supergirl In Training by wtfoctagon

Imagine, if you will, being an individual living your life. Going about your day. Certain things are set, certain others are up in the air. One of the 'set' things is the part where you will never have a child - for person (a) that's because they are physically incapable of having a child; for person (b) that's because they have had very rotten luck when it comes to family connections and they just know they’d royally screw up any kid that came within fifty miles of them (that ‘fifty miles’ thing is something I lifted from the story itself). So that’s you, for one reason or another you know that you will never have a child.

Now imagine meeting someone who bears a strong resemblance to yourself and who calls you mom.

That’s what happened at the start of this book. Lena was having a normal day, and then a normal night – driving home from work. At either a stop light or stop sign (I forget now which), Lena is startled by someone pounding on their passenger window. This is Lena Luther, so, of course, she . . . waited for more information before reacting (okay, she’d probably have stomped on the gas pedal, but meh).

Well Lena lowered the window a little bit instead of hitting the gas pedal. The woman on the other side of the window screamed something that sounds remarkably like ‘Mom! Hurry up! Let me in, Grandmother is after me!’ (the idea that Lena’s mother is after the woman on the other side of the window is conveyed, I forget if Grandmother or some other term was used). Naturally Lena . . . doesn’t open the door. Then she spots a black van hurrying towards her, the same van that had been involved in an earlier kidnapping – her own kidnapping. So, she open the door, the woman straps in, and off Lena shoots – now pounding on the gas pedal.

One thing leads to another, and it comes out that Lena does in fact have a daughter she never realized she had . . . 5 years in the future (though the woman herself is from 22 years in the future, that’s right, she’s 17). And in the brighter lights of her apartment, the young woman does look remarkably like Lena – with some mannerisms that reminds Lena of someone else.

Because of the nature of yellow sun/red sun/crushing stuff reasons, it is physically impossible for Kara to have a child ‘in the system’ (solar system). And yet, there she is. Lori L. Danvers – her daughter.

And so, over the course of . . . drat, the book description doesn’t have word count. Mmphs. Right, so over the course of roughly 70,000+ words, the reasons for what/how/why come out – unfold. Family time is spent. People are fought. Internal battles occur. Kara continues to be abused by Manhole (or however the author put that, actually it think it might have been closer to Manhell – Mon-El). Attempts to get away from him, gets abused more, etc. etc. You know, stuff happens.

This was a quite interesting and mostly fluffy story. Quite entertaining way to pass the time.

Rating: 3.75

October 13 2017