1.5

I will give you a warning but later in this review there will be some spoilers for Conceal, Don’t Feel and Frozen.

I don’t think fairy tale retelling is the best way to describe this book. The book felt like a fanfiction that you could find on wattpad. The writing wasn’t anything special. It was something anyone could do if they were a decent writer.

Except for the parts that were copied from the movie, the characters lost their personality. I was never that much of a fan of Olaf, but i still wanted somewhat of his personality. In the book he was just a piece of cardboard. Everyone was a piece of Cardboard. The author missed what made each character special. There were a few decisions that the characters made that i thought “the actual character would never do that”.

Spoiler for movie

Most of the book was copied by the movie. A ton of scenes were copied word by word what happened. The same thing that happened in the book happened in the movie. Else accidentally freezing her home, makes the castle, Hans goes after her, Kristoff and Anna going after her, Elsa getting captured, Anna and Kristoff getting separated, Anna being taken home and so on. I get that it is a “fairy tale retelling”, but that is no excuse. A fairy tale retelling is a story that adds a twist to the story while still being it’s own thing. ‘Conceal, Don’t Feel’, had the twist that Anna and Elsa never met but they never did anything special with it. It is pretty much Frozen but if they didn’t remember each other or they were separated. Even the title was copied by the movie. ‘Conceal, Don’t Feel’ is a line from the movie.

Spoiler for book

Hans was badly written in the book. I know we all hate Hans but he was better in the movie. In the book he was stupid. In the movie there were some plot holes with him wanting to be king but he mades even less sense in the book. Sence there is no Anna, Hans goes after Elsa. She isn’t willing to marry him but she is kinda into him. Which is out of character for her. Anyways after she runs away, Hans goes after her. He goes up to her and is like “hey you should come back and we can rule together. Elsa is like “no i can’t go back”. Then Hans is like “ok i’m evil now and i’ll go after your sister instead”. That is latterly the scene if you simplified it. Hans trys to convince Elsa to go back with him so that they could rule together. Elsa relizes that Hans just wants her to come back so that he can become king. She refuses to go back. Hans tells Elisa that he is evil and he tells her his plan. Hans does have a crossbow but still Elsa could of killed him if she wanted to. There were a few scenes that she could of killed him but she doesn’t because plot reasons. But seriously, he picked a bad time to tell her. It is like after that he forgets that he’s trying to get married to a princess. He does try to attract Anna for a little bit until he gets bored and decides that he rather be evil. He doesn’t even try that hard with Anna. He just acts nice for a few pages then it is thrown out the door. He tells Anna about how she is the princess and that they should rule together. Not that long ago Hans told Anna that he was planning on killing her sister so i don’t get why he expected a yes. His plan after that made even less sence. He plans to kill Elsa and Anna so that he could become king. One: that is not how monarchs work. Two: they are not going to have a random prince become king. It is pathetic that his downfall was that he didn’t whisper his plan or check to make sure no one was listening.

The sister love made no sense. They haven’t seen eachother since they were little kids so how can they love eacher enough for Anna to sacrifice her life. You know the last scene to the frozen movie. That is what happens in the book and it makes no sense. They had no interaction between eachother. They may as well be strangers.

Also i’ll like to add that the Queen has been visiting Anna for years and no one realized that she was the queen. Not even Anna. She wasn’t even disguise that good. Anna realized that the queen and the lady that she know looked similar as soon as she saw the picture. Is everyone really that dumb.

The curse made no sence and it made no sence why Elsa didn’t know about her powers until later on. Even if her parents didn’t want to tell her she should of found it out on her own. There was one scene where Elsa was controlling her powers using love so she should of already knew how to use her powers.

If the author at least tryed to do something knew i would of gave the book another star but i saw no effort to make something new. It is the same story but bad.

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