Not the Oracle story that I grew up reading, but still an interesting new take on her background. This book was well written and kept me interested the whole way through. The art was great too!

Recommended to all teen and above DC fans.

I wanted to like this book, I really did. I'm a fan of Barbara Gordon in many iterations over many years... but found this story boring. It reminded me, at best, of a Scooby Doo episode.

This is a comic that takes place in the Batman universe, but it's very different from what Batman fans are used to.
The main character is Barbara Gordon, daughter of commissioner Gordon, future librarian, and future Batgirl. In this world, Babs is a teenage hacker until one night, out late with her best friend, she gets in the way of a very bad guy and is shot. The shooting leaves her paralyzed from the waist down. Commissioner Gordon, wanting to help his daughter as much as he can, sends her to the Arkham Center for Independence, a hospital that specializes in rehab for people with disabilities relating to their movement.
There she meets Jenna, a girl who survived a fire which killed both her parents. Jenna sleepwalks, and likes to tell ghost stories, but when Jenna disappears, Barbra realizes there may be a lot of truth to the stories her friend was telling her... and why are the doctors in this place so damn creepy?? Only Babs' hacking skills can figure out the puzzle.

A fun and intriguing mystery that follows a teenage Barbara Gordon through physical and mental rehabilitation at the Arkham Center for Independence. Not only does she have to pick up the pieces of her life, but she also needs to solve the puzzle behind the disappearance of some of the patients there. The plot kept me engaged and I enjoyed Barbara's character growth. I highly recommend this read!

I'm a DC girl through and through so I've been having a lot of fun reading all the new YA and Middle-Grade titles that DC has been putting out. I really loved this adaption with Babs aged down a little and adjusting to her new life in a wheelchair. The mystery element was fun and we got a whole lot of realism in there too. We don't get to see enough characters in fiction who live their lives in wheelchairs and Oracle is a fantastic one to spotlight. I really just loved this. It had all the Oracle vibes that I've loved before for a new and younger audience.

I was not very familiar with Barbara’s character, having known Batman from childhood. This was easy enough to follow, though, and the mystery was intriguing. Also good representation for physically disabled teens and also girls in STEM.