Cobalt Blue

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Reflecting on the teachings of her parents and older siblings (except Black), she uses coloured sharpies to mark her helmet in her siblings' signature colours before she and Trey set out to prepare for the Furies' arrival. It honestly doesn't belong in 2022, and if Reilly published this back in the 90s, it's very likely he wouldn't have the career he does today. It is a clever way of telling the story, letting us get to know these characters and understand who they are, as well as the type of people they are.

The story features Cassie Cassowitz - aka the eponymous Cobalt Blue - as the main protagonist as she steps up to become the superhero America needs. Within the hour, the Fury of Russia and the Furies of Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad have convened in the skies over L. However, in his recent outings, including the atrocious movie 'Interceptor' written by the author himself, he has resorted to cliches built upon cliches ending in stale action set pieces. A novella by definition, the book deals with a world where the United States and Russia have a superhero, each acting as nuclear deterrents in an alternate timeline. Cassie questioned Black's coldness, to which he responded that his idea is simple mathematics, and without their mother to deter the Fury, he will simply be an unstoppable force.

The ending was laughably stupid as the titular Cobalt Blue emerges victorious because she is the main character, I believe. In true Matthew Reilly style, the pace is non stop, the action is brutal and the story shifts from current day to days past almost seamlessly, building the narrative and fleshing out the characters. As these children grew up, it became clear that all of these offspring had only half of the strength of their respective superhuman parents. Whilst each of the children have inherited some of her powers, they are only at about half the strength of Cobalt (Except for Black, who, unfortunately, got less ‘Superpowers’ and more ‘Super Intelligence’, but as a result, is insane, as all the intelligence has warped his mind).

I didn’t really like the type of genre but every chapter had a cliffhanger so that made me read the whole book.Having served proudly in the United States Army, Cobalt Green might seem to the one to end the Fury's campaign before it begins, but alas he is swiftly defeated and decapitated. That explains the uneven pacing, but the bigger problem is the author turning a subpar story into a bombastic adventure that makes no sense from start to finish. Cassie watches this unfold, and as The Fury reaches each new ‘Cobalt’, we get to see a new portion of her memory telling us about the characters. Disheartened by the news of Red's defeat, Cassie laments that now only she and three of her siblings remain. I couldn't even tell you their name because they were mostly just mentioned as 'the gay one' who only talks about clothes and being gay.