Miles Morales: SpiderMan (A Marvel YA Novel)

Things I loved about this book: The Sijos, Jason Reynolds' ability to add mundane details into his stories and normalize characters, the very present parents, the rich and detailed side characters.Things I'm struggling with: This story, is obviously, about Spiderman. Throughout the story there is a build up to the battle scene, with Miles' Spidey sense alerting him and the way too evil history teacher. It felt like all of this build up happened and then the battle scene was 10 pages long and then it was over.However, the more I think about this, the more I think that it's done this way on purpose. Being Spiderman is just one part of Miles. He is also a son, and a friend, and a student, and a teenage boy trying to navigate his crush. This story tells one small period of time in his life. Once he has defeated the villain, he still has real life demons to answer to and problems of racism and discrimination that cannot be as easily defeated as the larger-than-life villain.So while this was unsettling to me when I read it, it forced me ask myself a lot of questions and grapple with why the story was told this way and the answers make the grappling worth it.tl;dr Jason Reynolds is masterful in his story telling. This is exactly the story Donald Glover was talking about years ago. Spiderman is just a normal, smart black kid from Brooklyn.

Miles Morales is your average teenager… goes to school, gets in fights with his parents, crushes on classmates, and plays old-school video games with his roommate. But something takes him away from those ‘normal’ priorities of his life, his spidey-sense. Visions and nightmares, coincidences and cold sweats. Will Miles be able to balance his hectic life and figure out the threats at the same time?Be forewarned: This is not an action/super-hero/shoot-em-up novel. This is a novel that takes on weighty topics like race, and all the complications of teen life. Yes, there’s some web shooting, but not much. But that is not the focus. Reynolds takes the time to concentrate on the young man behind the mask. It is a much appreciated departure from many of the YA novelizations or tie-ins I’ve read. Recommended.

Most importantly my son loves this book. When I helped him with his book report I came to appreciate the social conflict that played such an important role in Miles Morales' life. This is not a beat em up, bang em up, good guy wins sorta book. It rises well above all that and delivers a powerful message in humanity. What is that message? I'm not telling! That would just spoil everything!My son had a little difficulty grasping the real message of this book and therefore challenged his highest intellect. We had a lot of quality time working on his book report together.This is now a family favorite!

I have been struggling to find books my daughter will read and this one was a hit! She loved all the excitement in this book and at the end she was feverishly flipping pages and asked for the next in series! She declared that she needed to read more like these.

He said he likes that the hero was black and how it related to today's society.

Took me a little longer than expected to finish this book, but it was quite satisfying. I would like to see more of Miles Morales story and adventures

Not much Spider-Man, not a good villain. Just didn’t enjoy the story. villain was odd, and not resolved very well

My daughter and I loved the movie so much that I had to get her the novel. We are reading it together and there is just so much more to it! Which is usually the case when you are talking the book over the movie. excellent purchase.

Haven't completed the book yet as it's a long read. It's best aimed at readers of the tween to teen age range and up; it's a novel and not a picture book.

My son is 10 and he loves this author.

Antes de dizer que terminei o livro há poucos minutos e que, sim, gostei muito, vale deixar claro que: 1) Miles Morales é, provavelmente, a única pessoa-aranha que acompanho na Marvel Comics há anos e; 2) a proposta do autor, Jason Reynolds, ressoa muito com muitas coisas que gosto muito, textos que escrevo e coisas afins - é só dar uma mexida neste blog e tal que, facilmente, se nota.Por isso, resolvi escrever logo esta resenha, mas tentarei não ser tão tendencioso, hehe.Além disso, já deixando claro: você não precisa conhecer toda a "historiografia" dos Homens-Aranha, do Universo Ultimate ou do próprio Miles. A obra se sustenta por si só. Apesar disso, fica bem claro que Reynolds leu tudo que devem ter disponibilizado a ele e, aqui e ali, pega algo da fonte - até pra evitar incongruências com o cânone, claro - e, assim, se você acompanhou Ultimate Spider-man, Guerras Secretas e além, admito que entenderá mais profundamente certas coisas. Porém, nada que mude a experiência de leitura...Então, o que rola nessa história? Resumindo muito, é muito mais focada no cotidiano escolar de Miles e seu relacionamento com as pessoas (seus pais e Ganke, melhor amigo e colega, principalmente) e com a comunidade que faz parte do que em seus poderes e o uniforme, mas ambos ainda estão lá e implicam em muitos em muitas vantagens – tipo, tente ter reflexos e agilidade aracnídeas e jogar basquete – e problemas. Com isso, entre lidar com uma “paixonite” e uma revelação recentes, Miles ainda precisa descobrir o que ou quem está afetando o sentido-de-aranha a ponto de deixá-lo doente. Tudo desenrola a partir dessas situações.[...] Miles Morales - Spider-man foi uma das melhores leituras que realizei este ano, e eu leio muito! A Marvel Press trouxe um dos meus personagens favoritos dos gibis mainstream para a prosa e, sobretudo, com isso, Jason Reynolds aborda vários temas que considero importantes não só para mim (ou pessoas como eu), mas para qualquer um que se dispõe a aprender sobre e entender determinadas questões. Espero muito que alguma editora brasileira traga o título logo para cá, e com um tratamento e qualidade tão bons quanto o original - e me ofereço pra fazer a tradução, também, hehehe... Comparando a outros aracnídeos da literatura, esta teia do aranha também uma mensagem significativa.

Fast shipping, excellent book.

Great product