A dreary YA look at a mopey, teenaged Clark Kent dealing with an acquaintance's suicide and a friend being radicalized into joining a misogynistic hate group of incels with a vague anti-elitist agenda and an arcane knowledge of obscure children's literature trivia.

For all it's "Afterschool Special" or "very special episode" blandness, the most frustrating part of this book for me was how the kid lit riddle that becomes a key part of the story is never fully shown for the audience to solve even though the answer is later uselessly revealed. What was the point of that? ( )