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Synopsis:

The tale of the legendary golden flower is widely known. The story has been told many times and in many ways. But always the flower is coveted by an old witch to keep herself young and beautiful. And always the flower is used to save a dying queen, who then gives birth to a princess with magical hair. Not willing to lose the flower, the old witch steals the princess and locks her away in a high tower, raising her as her own. But the princess always finds out who she truly is and manages to defeat the old witch.

And yet this is only half the story. So what of the old witch, Mother Gothel? Where does she come from? And how does she come across the magical golden flower? Here is one account that recounts a version of the story that has remained untold for centuries . . . until now. It is a tale of mothers and daughters, of youth and dark magic. It is a tale of the old witch.

Review:

Hmmmm not a fan.

Like I feel like Rapunzel beat this book up with a frying pan?? Bad book!!!

Out of most of the books in the series I was pretty excited for this book but I am not going to sugar coat it I was highly disappointed with this book. Unlike the others it didn’t have any interesting attributes about it. It instead felt like the same old sad tale with just name changes and nothing else?

Really, there where so many ways that this could have gone or played out but it just seemed that all the fun options of how this could have worked where thrown out the window and then they went with this plot line? I don’t know it may sound petty but the possibilities of this story being amazeballs were crushed.

The characters didn’t feel familiar and their dialogue was forced and nothing about it flowed.

…. Can’t like it.

I tried….

Rating: 2/5

Publisher: Disney Press

ISBN: 978138009027