panda_incognito's review against another edition
3.0
This graphic novel is short and sweet. It requires some suspension of disbelief at times, but fills in the blanks for parts of the Frozen timeline and shows Anna and Elsa growing closer together through remembering their parents.
The one thing that I disliked about this book was Anna's mother telling her that she should listen to her feelings, because they are her "truth." That anachronistic insertion took me out of the story, and even though it was just one minor detail, it diminished my ability to take this story seriously. There are lots of better and more historically accurate ways that Queen Iduna could have validated her daughter's feelings, and I'm tired of people reducing truth to someone's very real but subjective emotions.
The one thing that I disliked about this book was Anna's mother telling her that she should listen to her feelings, because they are her "truth." That anachronistic insertion took me out of the story, and even though it was just one minor detail, it diminished my ability to take this story seriously. There are lots of better and more historically accurate ways that Queen Iduna could have validated her daughter's feelings, and I'm tired of people reducing truth to someone's very real but subjective emotions.
ladyfives's review against another edition
Super sweet premise. Anything about their childhood and relationship with their parents never fails to warm my heart because I am, in the end, very basic. I especially liked the expressive and sketchy style of the memories, and even if it's ironically funny for Iduna to tell Anna to always trust in her emotions or whatever, the theme work was really nice.
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