I was worried that this book would be a bit of a letdown since it's the 5th in a series. But that was not the case at all!! I loved everything about this book! It spent most of the book giving the background of Gothel (instead of being more overall story-driven like the previous two books in the series). I thought it was very interesting to see Gothel's backstory because I honestly didn't know anything about her origin story. There were a lot of ties from her backstory to the Tangled movie. I thought that Gothel's backstory and character progression throughout this book was beautifully written from her being a child to where she ends up in Tangled.

And to top it off, the last few chapters were basically a hilarious retelling of Tangled from the witch's point of view and it was amazing!