
It wasn’t the blond social worker in her cheap suit.

The metal door hissed open, and Selina braced herself. She tugged on the cuffs linked to the table to see if they were secured. Selina groaned quietly, surveying the space. Handcuffed to the metal table before her.

Her tongue was a dry, thick weight in her mouth, her head a pounding mess, her body. The humming of the fluorescent lights was what awoke her. There's an excerpt from Catwoman: Soulstealer for you to read below, along with a book trailer and a peek at the cover. With only three weeks left until her 18th birthday, she's likely to be tried as an adult, but a mysterious woman approaches her with a deal that could get her out of Gotham and save her sister from living in a group home. Maas' new book opens with 17-year-old future Catwoman Selina Kyle arrested and separated from her younger sister, Maggie. Both Catwoman: Soulstealer and Superman: Dawnbreaker are available for pre-order today from your favorite bookseller. A fourth installment, Superman: Dawnbreakerby Matt de la Peña, is scheduled for release in Feb. 7 from Random House Books for Young Readers.Ĭatwoman: Soulstealer is the third of four planned installments in the DC Icons series, which saw Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo and Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu released over the last year. I've got the book trailer and an excerpt for you to check out below, so keep reading to find out more about Catwoman: Soulstealer, coming Aug. Maas' new book is Catwoman: Soulstealer, part of the DC Icons series of superhero origin stories told through YA novels. Bottom Line: Whether you're a superhero/Marvel/DC fan or not, this one will put you in your feels.If you're a Throne of Glass fan who also happens to love DC Comics, you're in luck. While I've always loved Catwoman, Poison Ivy has never been on my radar, but she was incredible within this book, and I seriously need an origin story about her like yesterday. That said, her light is almost stolen by Poison Ivy who is just a fire character. She has a conscience she does not really want to hurt anyone and she's someone that you can't help but to root for. Within these pages you see Selina/Holly/Catwoman grow exponentially from street rat to, for lack of better comparison, Robin Hood. It is very different from anything that I have seen before, and that's, perhaps, what makes it so incredible. This is not your typical Catwoman origin story.

Maas' Catwoman: Soulstealer, and begins to question her past decisions. The smart criminals were the ones who got out of their way. No, the League dealt in power-the sort that could alter countries, alter the world. Their goals were so much larger than financial profit.

They answered to nobody and nothing, a veritable force of nature. "The League was bigger, more lethal, than any criminal organization in this city.
