Black Panther: The Young Prince by Ronald L. Smith, 264
pages. Marvel (Disney), 2018. $17.
Content:
Language: G; Mature Content: G; Violence: PG.
BUYING ADVISORY: MS – OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
T’Challa is a teenager, but also the prince
of Wakanda. The king is worried about T’Challa’s
safety in Wakanda so he wants T’Challa and his friend, M’Baku to go to Chicago
anonymously and attend middle school. At
first, T’Challa and M’Baku like the freedom, but M’Baku falls in with a bad
crowd who is known for doing witchcraft and T’Challa has to call on the powers
of the Black Panther to try and fight the evil before M’Baku gets himself into an
unforgiveable situation.
I enjoyed the
movie Black Panther and thought this back story would be fun, but I was disappointed
by the drag in the story line with all the details of the life of a middle
school-er. Also, the idea that the king
of Wakanda would send his middle-school-aged prince son without an adult chaperone
to inner city Chicago is far-fetched.
This book could have been good-the bad guy was interesting and I like T’Challa,
but it was just boring.
C. Peterson
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