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A review by taliaissmart
Marvel: Avengers Assembly: Orientation by Preeti Chhibber
Dnf p. 53
This was so disappointing! I love these characters and saw the potential here, but the execution leaves much to be desired. I can’t quite tell what the plot is beyond...new school awkwardness? The multimedia format can work so well but was super stilted and inconsistent here, with issues including: group chats with random people who should not be communicating, unclear concept of “secrecy” around the school (giant branding on the gear Kamala gets from Avengers Inst., etc), Kamala’s private thoughts written across official paperwork, phone panels showing a villain takedown posted on social media that also includes a private convo between Kamala and her friend on the street outside...I could go on. There’s a chance that these issues will be corrected in the finished copy, but it’s SO messy now that I have concerns about what the final product might look like. The whole book feels unbearably juvenile as well—I think it doesn’t give kids enough credit & is too obvious in its attempts at humor.
For an effective multimedia middle grade novel, read Kate Klise’s Regarding the Fountain
For an effective Marvel school story, read Jason Aaron’s Wolverine and the X-Men
This was so disappointing! I love these characters and saw the potential here, but the execution leaves much to be desired. I can’t quite tell what the plot is beyond...new school awkwardness? The multimedia format can work so well but was super stilted and inconsistent here, with issues including: group chats with random people who should not be communicating, unclear concept of “secrecy” around the school (giant branding on the gear Kamala gets from Avengers Inst., etc), Kamala’s private thoughts written across official paperwork, phone panels showing a villain takedown posted on social media that also includes a private convo between Kamala and her friend on the street outside...I could go on. There’s a chance that these issues will be corrected in the finished copy, but it’s SO messy now that I have concerns about what the final product might look like. The whole book feels unbearably juvenile as well—I think it doesn’t give kids enough credit & is too obvious in its attempts at humor.
For an effective multimedia middle grade novel, read Kate Klise’s Regarding the Fountain
For an effective Marvel school story, read Jason Aaron’s Wolverine and the X-Men