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Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas by Megan Shepherd

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

What can I say? When I saw this booktok trender on the shelf I had to have it. I loved the movie and I'm a little horrified that this movie novelization was released for it's 30th anniversary (because how could it be so long).

It's exactly what you'd expect of a movie novelization. There's not much depth to it beyond what was on the screen. It's written in omniscient point of view so there's plenty of head hopping. Jack, the pumpkin king, stumbles on a tree that lets him peek into another magical realm: Christmas. He sees this as the very thing he needs to shake off his ennui. He wants to be 'Sandy Claws' But Jack is a thing of horror, not cut out for this. Sally, the rag doll who loves him, sees this clearly even if Jack and the rest of the Hinterlands doesn't.

I wonder what I can't possibly know: would I have enjoyed this if I hadn't seen the movie a hundred times? I think it was better in visual medium than in book form but it was nice to drop in to see Jack and Sally again in a new format.

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