Reviews for The Marvelous Effect: Book One of the Marvelous World Series

The average rating for The Marvelous Effect: Book One of the Marvelous World Series based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-09-30 00:00:00 Phil Halliwell I read The Marvelous Effect (book one of the Marvelous World) by Malcolm-Jamal Warner, 2007. This is an excellent up to date science fiction book that includes much of the new technology of today. As well all the characters are african american and some of their culture is included in the book. Strange things happens in the book with many adventures. A trip to a junkyard take you to another dimension, the book also includes modern new viruses where you go into a coma and come out different. Strange beings that suddenly become part of the story. A good book for video game and hip hop lovers, boys may like it more because most of the characaters are male.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-02-13 00:00:00 Pawel Wiszniewski I give this book a 5 based on how I felt reading it as a kid, not how I feel after reading it now that I'm 21. But man, back when I was 9 or so? In the middle of a Children of the Lamp hole, looking for something to read? And coming straight off His Dark Materials and being ramped up by high sci-fi fantasy fusion? Seeing a Black boy and a Black girl fighting monsters on the cover of a book was the most amazing thing when I was nine. At 21 years old, I can honestly say I havent seen any book with a similar scene on it in all these years. The cover drew my eye, and the authentic cultural experience and imaginative world building kept my attention. Is it well written? No, I don't think so. The plot also isn't the best structured thing ever, and the author unfortunately sacrificed fully contextualizing the character's experiences to tease the sequels instead. But it was a fun, imaginative story about Black kids fighting aliens when I needed a fun, imaginative story about Black kids fighting aliens. So in recognition of that little nine year old that would grow into a 13 year old that wrote white characters by default for way too long, I happily give this book a 5. Even in the finer literature world, a lot of the classic stories we love and adore don't stand up to the test of time. Longevity is indeed a valid metric for the measure of a good story, but sometimes the best stories are just the ones we needed to read when we first encountered them.