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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
I am a Disney Fan and I enjoyed this book. It is written for a young audience but has a good story with suspense. Peaks the imagination of what the parks are like after closing and behind the scenes.
been thinking about these since talking w a friend about them at dca recently. i never read them as a kid and had the best time reading this first one! definitely excited to keep reading the rest :)
I read this when it was released and as someone who is a Disney lover, I was obsessed.
There are scenes in this book that I think about to this day (mainly the Winne the Pooh ride and Small World ride scenes).
It stays true to the park layout as opposed to some TV shows or books where they combine both Disneyland and Disney World. Great for older kids who still love Disney.
There are scenes in this book that I think about to this day (mainly the Winne the Pooh ride and Small World ride scenes).
It stays true to the park layout as opposed to some TV shows or books where they combine both Disneyland and Disney World. Great for older kids who still love Disney.
adventurous
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
informative
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book is one of the worst books I've read in about 2ish years. The characters were bland, the story had a bunch of plot holes (from what I read), and just overall the plot wasn't as interesting or gripped me as much as I expected it to when I read the blurb. And the writing was less than mediocre, definitely not the best writing I've read (even from a middle-grade author). Anyway, I couldn't even finish the book. All I have to say is that I'm disappointed and don't recommend it.
The writing was simple and sometimes too annoyingly obvious. The character would explain something and then another character would ask a question which the first character has already answered. I feel as if the author didn't trust the readers to be able to remember those details so he kept repeating them. The characters didn't really have much of their own personalities. They seemed very two dimensional.
Maleficent's powers don't make sense. Why is everything cold near her? Doesn't Pearson remember Maleficent's fight in Sleeping Beauty where fire surrounded everything? The main character is a boy named Finn. Two or three girls in the book who are described to be pretty seem jealous of each other and have them throw small jabs at each other. I didn't like seeing girls act jealous and somewhat hostile towards each other for no good reason. Not all girls are going to be acting jealous and petty if they are pretty.
A few factors were not explained properly in the book or gave ridiculous reasons for how things were. And this is probably me just nitpicking but the one boy in the hero's group who is a person of colour, more specifically African American, was dressed in a Disney World uniform and people thought he was Aladdin in the park. Based on his character's description and the cover of my novel, it does not seem that anyone with eyes could possibly mistake him for Aladdin. His hair is all wrong for Aladdin's part. I feel like just because he wasn't white, that Ridley Pearson went "Oh, I bet I could make him Aladdin!" No Ridley. That's not how things work.
The idea of the book had a lot of potential but it let me down in a big way. I am a very big fan of Disney and I feel thoroughly disappointed. I will NOT be reading more of this series.
Maleficent's powers don't make sense. Why is everything cold near her? Doesn't Pearson remember Maleficent's fight in Sleeping Beauty where fire surrounded everything? The main character is a boy named Finn. Two or three girls in the book who are described to be pretty seem jealous of each other and have them throw small jabs at each other. I didn't like seeing girls act jealous and somewhat hostile towards each other for no good reason. Not all girls are going to be acting jealous and petty if they are pretty.
A few factors were not explained properly in the book or gave ridiculous reasons for how things were. And this is probably me just nitpicking but the one boy in the hero's group who is a person of colour, more specifically African American, was dressed in a Disney World uniform and people thought he was Aladdin in the park. Based on his character's description and the cover of my novel, it does not seem that anyone with eyes could possibly mistake him for Aladdin. His hair is all wrong for Aladdin's part. I feel like just because he wasn't white, that Ridley Pearson went "Oh, I bet I could make him Aladdin!" No Ridley. That's not how things work.
The idea of the book had a lot of potential but it let me down in a big way. I am a very big fan of Disney and I feel thoroughly disappointed. I will NOT be reading more of this series.
Aside from being able to visualize and put myself in the parks with his descriptions of the Magic Kingdom I thought this book was very poorly written and the story itself was, at best, something a second or third grader would conceive. None of it really made sense.
What did the Stonecutter's Quill have to do with anything? The way the It's A Small World scene ended was absolutely ridiculous. Who the heck were "Jez" and Amanda and what did they have to do with the Bible? I have no idea what was happening or why.
What did the Stonecutter's Quill have to do with anything? The way the It's A Small World scene ended was absolutely ridiculous. Who the heck were "Jez" and Amanda and what did they have to do with the Bible? I have no idea what was happening or why.