I picked this up because I absolutely love Tangled and Rapunzel. It's my comfort movie and I was excited to learn Mother Gothel's backstory.

I was really entranced in this story in the beginning and was loving the imagery and was excited to continue on. I will say after about the 25% mark I felt as though it started to drag on. There was a lot of events and interesting things that happened early on but after that, the rest was really the same, slower pace.

First off, Gothel was very supportive of her sisters throughout the story so knowing how she ends up treating Rapunzel feels very off. Gothel's personality flipped as soon as we got caught up to the where the movie starts. You can assume it was an attempt at trying to make Rapunzel feel like Gothel was actually her mother so she had to act differently but it still didn't feel right.

Second, the timeline compared to the movie was very weird. It didn't line up in many spots. I'm not sure if this is intended to match up with the movie story perfectly but it definitely was not and that's what I was hoping for.

I was just hoping for Gothel's villain story. This felt like a lot of other characters' stories instead.