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erindmorrow 's review for:
The Isle of the Lost
by Melissa de la Cruz
I had some issues with this book. It was a fun, quick read when the plot actually got moving but it felt very much like an ad for Disney. "Hey, remember this character? Or maybe this one?" So, so many Disney characters, major and minor, were thrown in for pretty much no reason at all that I almost stopped reading. Oh, and the angst! All the kids are huge disappointments to their egotistical, villainous (single) parents and they spend so much time agonizing over it. And where are all the other parents? How did all these kids come to exist in the first place? If you've seen the Maleficent movie you have some background for her daughter at least but, seriously, everyone else seems to have popped into being with only one parent and been given a dumb, derivative name. And of course both of the main female characters have unnatural hair colors since that's the cool thing these days. (Color-coding happens for all the characters - another way to sell things, perhaps?)
Overall, I like the concept and am intrigued about where it could go, but the execution was definitely lacking.
Overall, I like the concept and am intrigued about where it could go, but the execution was definitely lacking.