The Flash
The Lonely Hearts Club
By Miko
When Lewis Snart died in the line of duty, the city mourned a fallen hero - and his son Leonard said good riddance to bad rubbish. He's spent his life trying to show the world what a real hero looks like, and takes pride in being a better cop than his old man could ever have hoped to be. If being driven and ambitious means he's left alone and lonely off the job, at least he's making his mark on the world.
Then the particle accelerator blows up, and the dark matter changes everything about life in Central City. As a cop, there's only so much Len can do to protect his city, but Captain Cold has a chance to make a true difference.
Since the day his father was arrested, Barry Allen has struggled against the prejudice of being a killer's son. People whisper that apples don't fall far from the tree and nothing good can grow from a bad seed. Though he carries a debt that can never be repaid for the lives of his father's victims, he's also learned the hard way - the world will never give him anything that he doesn't take for himself.
With his powers, the Flash is an unstoppable thief. Of course, an easy job is no fun, and the chance to play with Captain Cold makes it even more interesting.
This was an experimental "Wrap to spine" Hard cover book. I used Faux leather to imitate the Reverse Flash's suit and printed the title, cutting the heart out of the leather with my Circut. I'm not ready to invest in gutting full range of colors for client books, but I'll probably do a few more for my own collection to get more comfortable. The splash pages are the same red as the spine, I used a red and white polka-dot ribon for the bookmark, and broken hearts for the page breaks until the last page when it heals.
The link will lead you to the series, but I printed both stories in one book to keep it all together. It's a really interesting story and really dark, and I mean blood, gore, and torture dark; we're dealing with a serial killer, so of course. Still, it's a really engaging story and such good character studies of Barry and Len as opposites; and I will always be a sucker for Cop!Len. My only recommendation is to not read this for the first time just as you're trying to go to sleep, because you won't be able to after.
