I loved this book! It was a fun, quick read. I grew up watching the movie, but the book was (as usual) much better, though I enjoyed the similarities the movie had to the book. Matilda is a lovely little character, and I know it would have been a dear favorite as a child. Most everything seemed very black and white, and the bad characters were quite bad indeed, which I wish had been done differently. I think it's important to show at least hints of backstory into why characters are the way they are, especially if they're horrible to the extreme that the Trunchbull and the parents were. Yet the characters did work for the story, and it was a fun read. I highly recommend it!