A review by samanthabryant
Spider-Man: Far from Home: Peter and Ned's Ultimate Travel Journal, by Preeti Chhibber
2.0
I'm going to have to say, meh.
I'm a Spiderman fan and the idea behind this one sounded cute and entertaining (MJ, Ned, and Peter keeping a group journal on their European study tour), but I wasn't that charmed.
The book is almost entirely one-note in its style of humor and Peter and Ned's voices are interchangeable to the point that I had to keep backing up to remember which of them was represented by red typeface and which by black.
The educational parts, with thoughts about European sites and personages felt tacked in, though I did enjoy some of MJ's snark and the way the boys reacted to her commentary.
I'm giving it to my tween daughter to see if it's an age thing. Maybe she'll find it funnier than I did.
I'm a Spiderman fan and the idea behind this one sounded cute and entertaining (MJ, Ned, and Peter keeping a group journal on their European study tour), but I wasn't that charmed.
The book is almost entirely one-note in its style of humor and Peter and Ned's voices are interchangeable to the point that I had to keep backing up to remember which of them was represented by red typeface and which by black.
The educational parts, with thoughts about European sites and personages felt tacked in, though I did enjoy some of MJ's snark and the way the boys reacted to her commentary.
I'm giving it to my tween daughter to see if it's an age thing. Maybe she'll find it funnier than I did.