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Queen and the Kingsmen by Zoe Blake

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

 

Here's the thing - Sleeping Beauty was far from being my favorite Disney Princess story. I couldn't even begin to explain why, but there was something about this story that didn't get my attention. When the movie Maleficient starring Angeline Jolie (not my favorite actress in the entire world), holy crap, i drooled. I mean, there was something about this actress and this story that completely drew me in. i loved the fact that there was an entirely new story behind the original Disney movie that explains why this woman? Sorceress? Witch? Queen? Acted the way that she did and does what she does.

So it was no surprise to me that i jumped on the opportunity to read this new book, Queen And The Kingsmen, by Alta Hensley and Zoe Blake since it was about this character that drew me in with the movie. I wasn't disappointed. What i loved about this book was the fact that these two authors took the live action movie and continued on that story, finally giving us adults our silent guilty pleasure. Or at the very least, my silent guilty pleasure. It wasn't a very long book, which i hadn't thought otherwise since it is part of a series that is releasing rather quickly one instalment after the other. The tempo was honestly pretty good, it was engaging and i was hooked and curious to find out what would happen from one page to the next.

I think that my biggest problem was the fact that i wished there was more background on the history between the Queen and the King - does it follow the same history as that from the movies or of the original Disney movie? I couldn't begin to tell you, since i don't even know myself. I think that had i read the previous books in the series before hand might have enlightened me on a few points, so that didn't exactly help me. I wished i knew more about the Kingsmen - are they really sorcerers? Otherworldly type of men? Or simply really big and tall mortal men who know the right people in the right places.

Those are some of my questions after reading this book, and while it didn't take away from my enjoyment of the story, it did leave me the 'but' feeling at the end. While it's the first time i read these two as a duo (not individually), it certainly won't be my last since i couldn't even begin to try to determine who wrote which parts.

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