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seekingnur 's review for:
Disney After Dark
by Ridley Pearson
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.