{"id":183,"date":"2019-08-02T18:49:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T18:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taxpaws.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2019-08-02T18:49:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T18:49:19","slug":"return-to-the-isle-of-the-lost-warning-may-contain-spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxpaws.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/02\/return-to-the-isle-of-the-lost-warning-may-contain-spoilers\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to the Isle of the Lost (Warning May Contain Spoilers***)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This\nbook was okay, it had its good and bad points \u2013 once again it would\nhave been better if this book was a movie or part of an ongoing TV\nseries. It was a light read and still entertaining. In my opinion,\neven though this book was good \u2013 just served as filler since \u201cRise\nof the Isle of the Lost\u201d actually sets the stage nicely for\nDescendants 2 \u2013 to be discussed in the next post. Even though I\nconsider the book to be filler, it was still good in the way that\nexpanded on both character development and the world in which they\nlive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nOne of the major highlights is it\nactually expanded upon the \u201cDescendants world\u201d as it took place\nin both mainland Auradon and the Isle of the Lost. As well, it even\nallowed the reader to explore the other states that make up the USA\n(United States of Auradon) such as Camelot, Neverland, and\nCharmington Cove (where Cinderella lives) along with providing a\ndeeper understanding of the make up of the Isle of the Lost.

I\nbelieve that Del la Cruz did an excellent job with the development of\nthe villain kids (VK\u2019s), making them feel genuine and well rounded.\nThe raw emotions of the VK\u2019s are very well illustrated throughout the\nbook as it shows in the first few chapters that they actually like\nbeing in Auradon better than the Isle thus strenghthening their\ninternal struggles such as conflicted feelings about their former\nhome along with their parents. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nI also like the fact that it\ntouched on another important issue \u2013 just because people live in\nthe same place does not mean they are all the same. For example, the\nformation of the Anti \u2013 Heroes club on the Isle shows that not all\nof the residents want to be villainous all of the time or the fact\nthat despite the fact that Prince Chad lives in Auradon and was\nraised in Auradon, he is still a jerk at times (Being a jerk once in\na while doesn\u2019t necessarily make you evil) but being a jerk doesn\u2019t\nmake you good either. Chad was a jerk when he planted Jay\u2019s face into\nthe ground. I must admit that the whole anti-heroes club was a good\ntwist when the VK\u2019s learned that some villains wanted to learn how\nto be good, it came as a surprise. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One\nthing I must say about this book as it actually shows the growth of\nPrince Ben to King Ben \u2013 you get to discover the beginning of Ben\u2019s\nroots as a leader. He actually has to use his brain and consider\nissues such as should magic be used in Auradon to solve problems even\nthough it has been banned except for special occasions. Even in the\nso called good world \u2013 this illustrates that one as a leader cannot\nlook at things as black or white since there are many gray areas. One\nof the things I like about Descendants thus far is it does show the\nconflicts when examining issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite that being said \u2013 the journey for each VK\u2019s unique talisman seemed to be filler although it taught us more about their histories. The most unique thing about the journey is that the reader finally got to see Carlos stand up to his mother \u2013 in person \u2013 sort of, or that Mal needed to realize that she needed to depend on her friends. This is obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book was good, but definitely not the best in the series. In my next post, I\u2019ll examine \u201cRise of the Isle of the Lost\u201d and how it is an excellent lead into Descendants 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This book was okay, it had its good and bad points \u2013 once again it would have been better if this book was a movie or part of an ongoing TV series. It was a light read and still entertaining. In my opinion, even though this book was good \u2013 just served as filler since … Continue reading “Return to the Isle of the Lost (Warning May Contain Spoilers***)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies-and-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxpaws.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxpaws.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxpaws.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxpaws.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxpaws.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/taxpaws.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/taxpaws.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxpaws.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxpaws.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxpaws.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}