{"id":7248,"date":"2016-05-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7248"},"modified":"2016-05-23T17:39:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T22:39:06","slug":"lois-lane-double-down-by-gwenda-bond-book-review-crime-corruption-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7248","title":{"rendered":"Lois Lane: Double Down, by Gwenda Bond (book review) – crime, corruption, conspiracy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Mobster-controlled doctor,
\nconspiracy theorist with a grudge,
\njust another day in Metropolis…<\/p>\n

Yes, that Metropolis<\/a>, where student reporter Lois Lane is tracking down city corruption, worrying about online pal (maybe more?) SmallvilleGuy, and trying to keep a low profile at school, while learning how this ‘being a friend’ thing works (Maddy has a twin?).<\/p>\n

Second in the series, but if you haven’t read Lois Lane: Fallout<\/em> (my no-spoilers recommendation here<\/a>) you can still enjoy Double Down<\/em> as backstory to the well-known Superman<\/a> saga.<\/p>\n

Any advice about friendship for moved-too-many-times-to-count Lois?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Lois Lane: Double Down (Lois Lane, book 2) \/ Gwenda Bond.\u00a0 Switch Press, 2016. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 [author interview video<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher; all opinions are my own.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: When Lois discovers her best friend’s twin in a perilous situation, the student reporter begins to unearth a diabolical doctor’s connection to Metropolis’ underworld while a conspiracy theorist online threatens her friend Smallville Guy.<\/p>\n

It should have been a routine news story about a young mural artist, but Lois finds Maddy’s too-cool twin sister delirious and searching for a mysterious doctor in Dante’s slum neighborhood.<\/p>\n

‘The Boss’ controls this slum, rumor says, along with much of Metropolis behind-the-scenes, so Lois’ nose for news is on the hunt – is the new mayor in his pocket?<\/p>\n

Her online friend SmallvilleGuy is concerned about new predictions of ‘flying man’ sightings, as reported on their favorite discussion site – how could Insider01 really know?<\/p>\n

Maddy and Melody say that the supposed ‘twin connection’ is just a myth – why is Melody seeing through someone else’s eyes now?!<\/p>\n

This second installment of the Superman backstory as told from Lois Lane’s teen point of view is a race to uncover corruption in the city and save her friends’ sanity.\u00a0 (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mobster-controlled doctor, conspiracy theorist with a grudge, just another day in Metropolis… Yes, that Metropolis, where student reporter Lois Lane is tracking down city corruption, worrying about online pal (maybe more?) SmallvilleGuy, and trying to keep a low profile at school, while learning how this ‘being a friend’ thing works (Maddy has a twin?). Second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[124,22,4,11,20,70,16,18,40,44,43,231,238,27,49,184,15,9,21,66,57,219,35,33,58,3,8,28],"class_list":["post-7248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-art","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-crime","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-illinois","tag-kansas","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-sisters","tag-superhero","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-technology","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7248"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7286,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7248\/revisions\/7286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}