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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
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FRTC
I AM IN LOVE!!!!! THE DIVERSITY AND THE LOVE AND THE REPRESENTATION IS JUST AMAZING!!
FRTC
The first part of this book was enjoyable. It followed the main Hocus Pocus story, with a few changes added in. They were small and not big enough to mess up the story, but to lead into the sequel. The sequel is where everything went wrong. We meet Max and Allison's daughter, have a brief appearance by Dani, who is now Aunt Dani, and then they are sent to hell, leaving the children to save the town. The characters had no real personality of their own. I also felt the sequel mimicked too much of the events in the first story. The sequel also seemed to drag out more than it needed to.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A cutesy sequel to Hocus Pocus, though I hope it stays in the pages of a book and doesn’t make its way to the screen. It doesn’t have the same joy that the original (nicely novelized in the first third of this book) does. It’s fun but it feels kinda empty. We’ll see. It did have a rather strong ending and good trio of kids
I had so much fun reading this. Like many many others, this is one of my all time favourite Halloween movies, if not one of my favourite movies of all time. When I heard that this had been transformed into a book and not just that, there was a sequel to the story, I knew that I had to read that as fast as I could.
I listened to the audio book of this one and, to be honest, it has its good points and its bad points. Let's start with the bad points and then work our way to the better points. As this is a massive movie, I would have expected the audio book to have that same charisma and portray the many many larger than life characters. Now, I am not saying that the audio book speaker was not good because she was but I would have loved to have had a bit more dramatic flair and more emphasis on the individuality of each of the main characters in this story, especially the witches. Another aspect that I wasn't fond of was the fact that in the movie it has very rememberable songs like I Put A Spell On You and the lullaby that one of the witches sings to lure the children to them. In the book, these were merely spoken rather than sung or even used music. With the sequel, although I did enjoy it I would have loved to have had a different storyline. From my experience of listening to this story, apart from a few tweaks it seemed to follow a similar storyline to the original story but not much variation. For a sequel to a very popular story, I would have expected a similar feel to the first book but a sequel that moves the story forward, adds more depth to the world etc.
Moving onto the good things. I enjoyed revisiting this story so much. I didn't get the chance to watch it last year and purposefully did not watch it this year as I didn't wait it to 'interfere' with my enjoyment of the book by comparing one to the other. With the sequel, I found the whole aspect of being so many years later and the 'next generation' are learning about the witches and seeing what happens if you make the mistake of waking them up. In this sequel, we also find out a little bit more history of the witches and their family, with a surprising twist nearer the end.
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3.5
Hocus Pocus
Though this is one of my favorite Halloween movies I really struggled to get through the first part of this book. The recap which is the first couple 100 pages of this book was basically just a summary of the movie. It was not good. The writing was horrible and way too cheesy (even considering the movie). But while I am glad they didn’t change the source material, it felt wrong consuming the content this way. I almost wish I had just skipped the first part and watched the movie.
The All New Sequel
While I didn’t think we needed this and I definitely don’t want it to become a movie (it could never compare to the first one). I do think this was a quality story. I appreciate that Disney includes queer main characters. One thing I didn’t love about this sequel was that it tried to be too big, with the witch battles and the underworld it just didn’t feel quaint like movie always has.
Hocus Pocus
Though this is one of my favorite Halloween movies I really struggled to get through the first part of this book. The recap which is the first couple 100 pages of this book was basically just a summary of the movie. It was not good. The writing was horrible and way too cheesy (even considering the movie). But while I am glad they didn’t change the source material, it felt wrong consuming the content this way. I almost wish I had just skipped the first part and watched the movie.
The All New Sequel
While I didn’t think we needed this and I definitely don’t want it to become a movie (it could never compare to the first one). I do think this was a quality story. I appreciate that Disney includes queer main characters. One thing I didn’t love about this sequel was that it tried to be too big, with the witch battles and the underworld it just didn’t feel quaint like movie always has.