Review: As an Admitted Disney Lover
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 20, 2012
I wanted to adore this book.  I first visited Disneyland as a small child a loooonnnnggg time ago, but have been a couple times more recently and I really really wanted to love this book.  I could visualize the locations and things throughout the park as they were mentioned, although the places were limited to a few and the "trip" through the parks didn't actually cover the entire park(s).  Maybe this is part of the future of the series.  What I found most diffiult to get past was the repetitive nature of the writing.  After the first mention of how Jack Duncan wanted to protect his Children...ok...got it.  I didn't need to be beat over the head multiple times about it.  There was chapter after chapter about it.  I could however, feel the children's excitement at being in the parks and I felt their thrill at seeing things.  I was also rather disturbed at the abrupt end of the book.  Yes, I understand this is the beginning and that there will be followup, but I'm really not sure that I want to go on.  Oh, and there were some editing flaws where "like" words were used improperly...a common enough error, but it's a pet peeve of mine.