I’m not sure what I expected, considering I’ve seen the Disney film, but I didn’t realize this would be more wild than even the movie! I found it charming and endearing and was interested to find out how much it differed from my favourite childhood film.

It contains things I typically dislike a lot, such as breaking the 4th wall, fiction that is self aware and comedic—but because it’s a children’s/YA story, it worked for me. It establishes the tone early on to give the reader a heads up and the humour is clearly to engage a younger audience and satirize cultural elements to make them more critical of society.

It’s pretty batshit sometimes, and has some casual sexism I could do without, but I came away pleasantly surprised.