A review by dreamstobecome
Collateral Damage by Taylor Simonds

5.0

Taylor Simonds takes the tropes, formulas, props, costumes and structure of your favorite comic books and superhero cinema, shakes it all up, and creates a beautifully witty mosaic of rearranged pieces called “Collateral Damage.” This book has all the proper earmarks of both YA and superhero lit, layered expertly within a surprisingly in depth plot and delightful characters. Narrator Meg is perfectly snarky with exactly the right amount of justice and love fueling her fire, and all of the characters she encounters along the way are fully realized and easy to connect with and imagine as a reader. For a debut novel, this is an impressive and exciting book and I am confident that Simonds will go on to dazzle and amaze - good storytelling is clearly one of her many superpowers.