White Widow: Secret Sisters

The mission is simple: destroy the package at any cost. Only the package turns out to be a person. A child. Yelena Belova is a Widow. It shouldn’t matter. She has her orders. But the little girl has her face and Yelena reacts before she thinks. Now on the run in a stolen minivan, she has more questions then answers, a team of Widows on her tale, a conspiracy far more complicated then she ever thought and now she’s questioning things she was trained to never consider.

You don’t need to have read the comics or watched the movies for this book to make sense. You just need to be familiar. So if you’re a huge Marvel fan, you might be disappointed with this story. The Red Room is awful, there’s no denying it, but Yelena doesn’t know differently and that comes across well. The characters are straightforward, most with only one or two traits, but they are all different from each other and easy to keep track of who’s who. Information is often repeated more then needed. The combat was fast paced and not drawn out.