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A review by sandrareilly513
Long Live the Pumpkin Queen by Shea Ernshaw
4.0
Calling all Nightmare Before Christmas fans!!! The story finally continues...
Jack and Sally are newly married and Sally is struggling with the title of Pumpkin Queen. When she flees to the grove to get some breathing room, she finds a new doorway into a world that was believed to be lost long ago -- Dream Town. But when Sally inadvertently lets the Sandman loose on Halloween Town, resulting in everyone falling into a deep sleep never to be awoken, it's up to the new Pumpkin Queen to save everyone. Sally will have to travel to different worlds and find the bravery she didn't know she had in order to save everyone she loves, and learn more about herself along the way.
Thoughts: I am a huge NBC fan and have been able to recite the entire movie word for word since I was a kid, so I was ecstatic to see a continuation of the story after all these years. The story picks up shortly after the movie ends, and fans will not be disappointed as author Shea Ernshaw portrays our beloved characters exactly how we remember them. Sally remains the most well-developed character of everyone and Ernshaw treats us to a long-overdue backstory for Sally and how she came to be in Halloween Town. This is a quick read that I wish had a bit more substance in each conflicting scene, as a lot of the story focuses on Sally's imposter syndrome over being the new Pumpkin Queen. But regardless, I enjoyed the introduction of new worlds in the grove as well as the revisting of some from the original movie. Sally's backstory weaved into this continuation was a wonderful plot point, and she finally gets her true moment to shine not only as the main character but the real hero of Halloween Town. Ernshaw's Long Live the Pumpkin Queen is perfect for fans of The Nightmare Before Christmas as well as both middle-grade and young adult readers.
**Thank you, NetGalley and Disney Publishing, for a DRC in exchance for an honest review.**
Jack and Sally are newly married and Sally is struggling with the title of Pumpkin Queen. When she flees to the grove to get some breathing room, she finds a new doorway into a world that was believed to be lost long ago -- Dream Town. But when Sally inadvertently lets the Sandman loose on Halloween Town, resulting in everyone falling into a deep sleep never to be awoken, it's up to the new Pumpkin Queen to save everyone. Sally will have to travel to different worlds and find the bravery she didn't know she had in order to save everyone she loves, and learn more about herself along the way.
Thoughts: I am a huge NBC fan and have been able to recite the entire movie word for word since I was a kid, so I was ecstatic to see a continuation of the story after all these years. The story picks up shortly after the movie ends, and fans will not be disappointed as author Shea Ernshaw portrays our beloved characters exactly how we remember them. Sally remains the most well-developed character of everyone and Ernshaw treats us to a long-overdue backstory for Sally and how she came to be in Halloween Town. This is a quick read that I wish had a bit more substance in each conflicting scene, as a lot of the story focuses on Sally's imposter syndrome over being the new Pumpkin Queen. But regardless, I enjoyed the introduction of new worlds in the grove as well as the revisting of some from the original movie. Sally's backstory weaved into this continuation was a wonderful plot point, and she finally gets her true moment to shine not only as the main character but the real hero of Halloween Town. Ernshaw's Long Live the Pumpkin Queen is perfect for fans of The Nightmare Before Christmas as well as both middle-grade and young adult readers.
**Thank you, NetGalley and Disney Publishing, for a DRC in exchance for an honest review.**