Spider-Man's Bad Connection by Preeti Chhibber is the second book in the series that began with Spider-Man’s Social Dilemma. This review contains at least one spoiler as there is no way to get around the problem. You are warned.
Now that Mary
Jane knows Peter is Spider-Man, she is playing in active role in being his
partner to help protect the city. The Faithless have selected a new ally to
help them conqueror the Earth. Their new ally is the teleporting villain, Spot,
able to rip teleporting disks off his skin and then to use them to teleport anything
to anywhere. This makes him very dangerous. The ability is made more of a threat
because he is an emotionally immature former scientist turned villain. His severe
emotional issues contrast against Spider-Man’s rather adult perspective despite
being a teenager. All this and more is going on in this action packed second
novel.
Overall, I
enjoyed this novel, but once again events are being setup for the third novel
instead of being wrapped up here. So, this reader was again annoyed that the
book ended abruptly.
Additionally,
the Mary Jane subplot causes two issues. First, it drags the read as it is
designed to help explore Mary Jane and Peter’s relationship since he is a
superhero and not a normal boyfriend. They have unique challenges facing the
couple. The subplot also does a major portion of the setup for the next book in
the series.
Despite the aforementioned
negatives, the humor, action, and character development is present in this
second book in the series that is also a pretty good read. The third book in
the series does not have a title or a release date yet.
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My reading copy came from the Dallas West Branch of the Dallas Public Library System.
Scott A.
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