After a tough semester of university and having written all my exams, I was really looking forward to dive back into the world of The Descendants and read yet another of Mals, Evies, Carlos' and Jays adventures. As always, I did not watch the Disney TV show that apparently exists from this book series. Rise of the Isle of the Lost started off as charming and cheerful as the other two books. Our four (former) villain-kids live happily ever after at Auradon, find new friends and lovers and everything is just rainbows and unicorns and cotton candy if it wasn't for some villain-kids at the Isle of the Lost and a little mermaid to cause some troubles ... As always, I enjoyed Melissa de la Cruz writing style and the little Disney details she added. Unfortunately, however, the real plot - our four friends fighting off some evil powers and saving Auradon from some MAYOR trouble - falls really, really short. It is even worse than it has been in the first book of the series. While reading, it felt like everything was building up for a BIG fight between the former-evil-now-good-kids and the troublemakers from the Isle of the Lost, however, this "fight" ended withing three and a half pages. Which was rather disappointing. I do understand that this book series has probably been written for a younger age group, mainly children. However, as a grown as woman who saw "Wreck it Ralph" and "Toy Story 1 - 3" the other day and got way too exited, I feel that with just a little more afford, Rise of the Isle of the Lost would have been a better book for me to read. I will probably read the 4th book at some point (which has been released literally around the time I finished Rise of the Isle of the Lost, what a funny coincidende) but for now, I am not very interested at how the story evolves.