I'm very disappointed in the book. The fact is that it's simply not good.

There isn't much in the way of plot, agency, or character development. Elsa doesn't do anything in the book except hit iconic beats from Frozen. They attempted to give Anna more agency, but her motivations don't make sense in-universe. She does things because she needs to do them for the plot, and even then, she's not driving it. The driving factor of the plot is the curse that Elsa and Anna are under, and neither of them can do anything about it until it goes away on its own.

This makes the book super easy to read, but in all, I think it's doing a disservice to middle-graders. This could be a young person's opportunity to read an amazing book that hooks them into reading for the rest of their life because they love Frozen and see Elsa and Anna on the cover. Instead, it's mediocre at best and shares nothing with the books that made me fall in love with reading as a child. I don't feel as if I have been magically transported to Arendelle. I felt like I was in my room reading a book. 

I looked into Disney Publishing when I realized how many books were in this Twisted Tales series alone and they have these authors pumping out so many books I'm surprised this one is coherent. Not that I was surprised given how many Disney books were in the bookstore's Middle-grade section in comparison to non-Disney. The volume of novels they are churning out is impressive, but the quality of them likely is not. This is the only one I've so far and while I do have others I'm interested in reading, I no longer have a lot of hope for them being good.

The worst part is this is one of the earlier books to come out in 2019 before they ramped up the publishing. There's no way the future books are any better except by random chance.