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A review by angek98
The Isle of the Lost by Melissa de la Cruz
4.0
Okay, I just gotta say, The Descendents is my guilty pleasure movie.
When I found out there was a book, I had to get my hands on it.
I liked how it told about the lifestyle of the villians on the Isle, with the 'leftovers', and the squalor they had to live in.
Plotwise, it was good. I liked how our 'protagonists' had to go on this quest to find the Dragon's eye, and each character had their own separate motives for doing so.Although neither of them got their way. It's refreshing to see that not always everything turns out the way the characters had hoped, and sometimes it ends in dissappointment.
I loved these renditions of Mal, Jay, Evie, and especially Carlos. I feel like Melissa de la Cruz gave more development to Carlos than in the movie and gave us more information and tid bits about all of the characters. Ben's POV felt a bit useless to the plot but it was interesting to see all the happenings in Auradon.
The writing was nice, not too dense or ridiculously poetic or anything. Nice and straightforward and entertaining, and kept me hooked!
When I found out there was a book, I had to get my hands on it.
I liked how it told about the lifestyle of the villians on the Isle, with the 'leftovers', and the squalor they had to live in.
Plotwise, it was good. I liked how our 'protagonists' had to go on this quest to find the Dragon's eye, and each character had their own separate motives for doing so.
I loved these renditions of Mal, Jay, Evie, and especially Carlos. I feel like Melissa de la Cruz gave more development to Carlos than in the movie and gave us more information and tid bits about all of the characters. Ben's POV felt a bit useless to the plot but it was interesting to see all the happenings in Auradon.
The writing was nice, not too dense or ridiculously poetic or anything. Nice and straightforward and entertaining, and kept me hooked!