Review: The Flash: The Tornado Twins

The Flash: The Tornado Twins by Barry Lyga
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

"IT'S BANANA PEELS!!!"
-Ezra Miller

The last of Barry Lyga's Flash adventures for kids? Say it ain't so! Also say it ain't so that I'm the first to leave an actual review on Goodreads for this one? *checks* So I am. Shame, y'all are sleeping on these Flash stories. And Jo Whittemore's Supergirl books, too, but that's a story for another day.


Today, though, I'd like to highlight The Tornado Twins, the conclusion to Lyga's increasingly wild, increasingly bonkers trilogy set in an alternate universe of the CW's Flash TV series. A fact that Cisco acknowledges to Barry early on in this book, before Barry goes on his next adventure in earnest. An adventure that'll take him into the future, to different time periods with new default languages (Interlac in the 30th century where the title duo hails from, and literal emoji language in the 64th - which surprised me until the Citizen who helps Barry out makes it clear that her "research" of the 21st century included some long-outdated slang), all in the hopes of stopping Hocus Pocus and Abra Kadabra.

Meanwhile, back home, Team Flash has a few other problems to deal with. Namely, the Earthworm who's been hinted at since Hocus Pocus, whom Wally is leading the charge against. And also the fact that Barry, as always, is in trouble with his CCPD bosses and could very well lose his job if he doesn't get back from his little Stargate trip in time.

That said, though? Never underestimate the power of Barry, or his friends.

As always, Lyga totally nails the characterization of just about everyone much better than the CW TV series does. Especially Wally and HR and Caitlin, all among my faves whom I feel the show never did justice. But especially Wally. (Yeah, I know, Keiynan Lonsdale's a big celebrity crush of mine, but that's part of the fun for me watching him as Wally.)

Though this be the end of the trilogy, at least the adventure continues, of that you can be certain.

To this incarnation of Team Flash, I now bid ave atque vale and eagerly await Whittemore's third and final Supergirl novel, coming not soon enough, methinks.

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