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3.52 AVERAGE
3.52 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I don't really think I can say enough about this book. This book really brought me back to my childhood. Even though it's marketed toward kids, adult Disney fans will love it, and I can promise that! I met characters that I've been away from for so long. Pongo, Iago, Beast and Belle, Jafar...the list goes on and on and on, and I found myself smiling at all of the brief cameos -- hello, Flotsam and Jetsam! . It's incredibly refreshing to stumble across a well written kids' book. Where the world seems to be dumping even the simplest things down for kids now, Melissa de la Cruz gives 9-12 s some actual credit, using appropriate words that may require a younger audience to grab a dictionary every now and then, but hey, is that REALLY a bad thing? It's well described, perfectly set, and fast paced. I have to say, if this became a series, I would follow it loyally, and as a 26 year old who grew up in the height of drawn Disney animation, I would unabashedly recommend this to any one of my Disney-loving friends.
A fun read that serves as a prequel to the Disney movie The Descendants. It was fun to read about what happened to the Disney villains after they were banished from their respective kingdoms.
I believe I might be in the minority, but I honestly believed that this book is a lot better than the movies. The movies brought up a lot of questions that is left unanswered, but I believe the book series fixes it up a bit. It's not the best, since is supposed to be aimed to middle schoolers and need to fit the "Disney values/morals", though I liked how they wrote the relationship between the villain kids and the villains, their relationship with their parents is abusive. Also am I the only one who finds it messed up that the "heroes" sentence the villains to a concentration camp without any concerns us the children who also lives there? It makes it seem like the "heroes" are worse than the villains.
Although this book is obviously designed for smaller children, I an 18 year old guy enjoyed it very much. It's really cool learning about the children of the villains we grew up with. It's like they are the same generation as us, so we can almost relate to them.
Review also posted at Young Adult Hollywood. Win The Isle of the Lost + Disney DVDs prize pack here.
“Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?”
The Isle of The Lost follows the story of villains who are cast aside on a magical dome where they are locked away from the kingdom of Auradon.
We have Maleficent, their elected ruler of the isle and Mal her most evil daughter, The Evil Queen and her daughter Evie, Jay the son of Jafar, who is great at pick pocketing, Carlos, the nerd and inventor of many things who also happens to be the son of Cruella de Vil.
My all time favorite author Melissa de la Cruz is back with her Disney prequel novel for Descendants titled “The Isle of the Lost.” And she did not disappoint.
The writing and premise of this book will surely enchant young adult readers. The story is snarky filled with evil banter and schemes. Perfect for Disney fans. We will definitely be tuning in for the movie companion!
“Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?”
The Isle of The Lost follows the story of villains who are cast aside on a magical dome where they are locked away from the kingdom of Auradon.
We have Maleficent, their elected ruler of the isle and Mal her most evil daughter, The Evil Queen and her daughter Evie, Jay the son of Jafar, who is great at pick pocketing, Carlos, the nerd and inventor of many things who also happens to be the son of Cruella de Vil.
My all time favorite author Melissa de la Cruz is back with her Disney prequel novel for Descendants titled “The Isle of the Lost.” And she did not disappoint.
The writing and premise of this book will surely enchant young adult readers. The story is snarky filled with evil banter and schemes. Perfect for Disney fans. We will definitely be tuning in for the movie companion!
I have loved Melissa De La Cruz since reading her Blue Bloods series, but she really out did herself in this book. I love reading twists on classic fairy tales and I couldn't put this one down once I started it. Ironically I am in Disney World and surrounded by those original fairy tales themselves as well. There is a huge amount of character development and I enjoyed reading it from different points of view. I hope that this series continues in novels and not just the movies. The only disappointment was that the "good" characters, other than Belle, seem a little blah and vapid. I hope that we get to see another side of them
for this being a prequel novel to the original descendants movie, i thought this book was really good. it was a little slow in places and not much happened for the first half of the book, but overall, i had a fun time reading it. parts made me laugh out loud (like the beast retiring to play golf