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After loving Jason Reynolds’ When I Was the Greatest, I had big expectations for The Boy in the Black Suit, which it lived up to admirably.My favorite thing about Reynolds’ books, I think, is how understated they are. There are dramatic things going on, for sure, but they’re not handled like melodrama. It all just feels real. He’s not playing things up for extra intensity or whatever, but just letting them be real, and letting the characters react to that.Matt Miller’s a bit of a quiet type, and...
Damn. This book. Just...damn. A beautifully written, quiet, character study of a young man who seeks solace after his mother's death by attending the funerals of others. Jason Reynolds is amazing. Read this book.
The ONLY reason this realistic book that is by turns funny and heart-wrenching did not get 5 stars from me is the author's reliance on coincidence to stitch his story up at the end. Dear Jason Reynolds - your story and certainly your characters are strong enough to carry the tale through to a satisfying conclusion without tying up all the loose ends in a bow. You can let 'em finish messy. Love, Paula
I liked the narrative voice and I liked the protagonist, but I set it down about halfway through. I think it was lacking the spark I was looking for, in the dialogue and in emotion. I'd try another book by this author down the road, though.
A quietly hopeful book that reaches for the heartstrings and makes the reader want to be and do better, while never seeming like that's what's happening. The balance this book strikes between grief and community and friendship and hope and relationships and strength and looking forward and really living life while taking place in an innercity neighborhood is what makes it so powerful. It has moments of brilliance that I wanted to bookmark and put on a poster on my wall, but in Jason Reynolds' wr...
When Matt's mom dies from breast cancer everything falls apart. For instance, his father starts drinking again a habit he stopped so he could marry Matt's mom. News spreads like wildfire through Matt's town so when he goes back to school everyone treats him like the boy with a dead mama. At least Chris ( his best friend ) doesn't treat him differently. His dad stops working so Matt tries to find work at Cluck Bucket a joint near his house. At Cluck Bucket, Matt meets a girl who he thinks is name...
I was not impressed with this one. In fact, I was bored. The book drags on and the reader waits and waits for some big event...but nothing happens. I was really hoping for a book that teenagers who have suffered loss could really connect to, but I don't believe this is it! I know teenagers pretty well, and it's doubtful they would wade through this book.
Richie’s Picks: THE BOY IN THE BLACK SUIT by Jason Reynolds, Atheneum, January 2015, 272p., ISBN: 978-1-4424-5950-2“I don’t need no money, fortune, or fameI’ve got all the riches baby one man can claim”Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, “My Girl” (1964)“We started up the block, our cement world of trash cans blown into the street, stray cats begging, stoop sitters dressed in fresh sneakers smoking blunts in broad daylight, old ladies sweeping the sidewalk, tired nine-to-fivers walking slowly on t...
This was a good book. I don't think I would go any higher to say I think is an amazing book but it certainly deserves good. This book took me a long time to finish and I think that is partly because I have nothing to relate to the main character. I am a white male living with my family in rural Maine. He is a black male living alone in urban Brooklyn, New York. I can walk down the street with not a thought about getting shot, he, however, its always a possibility. This book was about a black te...
A really solid, quick read about a boy working through his own personal grief by working at a funeral home and building new relationships. It's a quieter book, but emotionally resonant. The romance that buds between Matt and Love is sweet and realistic -- it's not immediate, it's not hot-and-heavy, and it's (view spoiler)[ not an easy reward. (hide spoiler)]More to come. It was refreshing to read a story like this from a black teen boy's point of view.
Originally posted here at Random Musings of a Bibliophile.The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds came out the first week of the year. I heard good things from several people, and was eager to try on of Reynold's books. Boy was I not disappointed.Matt Miller is a boy who wears a black suit to school every day. His mom died of cancer recently, but that's not the reason for the suit. Matt, a senior on an abbreviated schedule due to good grades, works every day at a local funeral home. He arran...
I was a LITTLE disappointed in this one...mostly because of how much I loved Jason Reynolds' When I Was the Greatest. Like Ali, Matt is an African American teen in a rough neighborhood who does his best to make good choices, but this narrative just doesn't have the same punch that Ali's did. There's not as much character interaction--much of the narrative is just Matt's internal thoughts--and the most interesting interactions are those he has with Lovey, who doesn't appear until halfway through
All hail, Jason Reynolds! The man can write no wrong. I loved this book. It's a perfect mixture of grief and hope and humor. Reynolds writes in a way that is gut-wrenching, yet beautiful. Go read everything with his name on it. No really, go right now!
