Author: Estelle Laure
Ch: 28
Pg: 240
Series: City of Villains
Genre: retelling
Rating: 3.5 stars
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
I enjoyed this one
more than I thought I would as fairy tale and Disney retellings have been hit
or miss for me lately. But City of Villains by Estelle Laure
was a hit. I enjoyed the noir crime novel aspect of the book. Mary Elizabeth
and Bella have this weird detective duo going on and I love it. I want more of
those two in the next book in the series.
As the first book in
the series it is a little slow, but that’s to be expected of a first book in a
series as it sets up the world and develops the characters. And of course like
most first books in a series there’s a cliff hanger, but with this being a bit
of retelling and backstories as well as a slight crime novel you won’t a bit of
a cliff hanger to get to come back for more.
This is indeed a YA
novel so there is more than its fair share of teenage drama. That I didn’t care
for and not just because I’m older than your typical YA reader, because I
didn’t even care for teenage drama in my YA novels when I was a teen. But to me
that’s the only con of the book. But I loved Mary Elizabeth and Bella enough to
overlook it. Because City of Villains gave me a different take on Captain
Hook’s back story. And I’m always a sucker for a new twist on Hook’s story.
Since I’m still convinced that Hook was never the villain of the Peter
Pan story.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher through
netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions
expressed are mine alone.
