Catwoman: Soulstealer

I'm not sure if it was the writing or if it was the general plot of the book, but I wasn't that into it until somewhere between 5 and 6 hours of the audiobook. I've always been a Marvel fan, but I'm not opposed to DC (was just never as into the characters aside from Teen Titans, as I was in Marvel superheroes) and I thought, ‘Hey, it's Cat Woman. I'm sure I'll love it because badass female, am I right?” And Selina was badass. I just... I don't know. Maybe it was the romance that spoiled it for me? Or the constant telling that Selina had a horrible life (as opposed to a cutaway scene or flashback or something that let us SEE the horrible life, rather than just hear her say it– there was a lot of telling in this book and I just wasn't 100% engrossed in what was going on). As a MC, Luke Fox was definitely a flat character, and kind of going along with my earlier point about the romance spoiling it for me, it was like “this woman is awful, this woman is awful, she has to be stopped” to “I'm AtTrAcTeD to Catwoman?! Should I do XYZ? Bruce would kill me! ..... but ..... ... no.” There was zero... development between them to explain why he would feel any type of romantic way about her. She could have been a well-respected foe– like, “Oh, she is awful and needs to be brought down, but man, she's powerful,” and carried that type of relationship. Romance wasn't needed and honestly I think the rest of the book suffered to hit those romantic key points. And don't even get me started on Ivy and Harley– As some other reviewers have stated, Ivy was done dirty in this book. I may have not been the biggest DC fan, but I remember the cartoons and Ivy was always a BAMF. In this book, she was..... nothing more than a poorly written platform for the plot and I feel like most of the scenes with Ivy in them were solely in there to be like “Don't forget! We have Catwoman AND Poison Ivy.” I just..... it wasn't... absolutely terrible. I've read way worse. But it's not something that I'll actually go out and buy and it's not something I'd ever re-read.