3.5 stars 
 "Bells. Ringing and echoing through the island from the top of the tower, where Claudine Frollo was tugging the rope and being pulled up along with it as she rang in the official start of Dragon Hall school day." 
 I really enjoyed this book, a refreshing story and far more original than the names of the villain's children in the book (I mean: Maleficent > Mal, Jafar > Jay, Claude Frollo > Claudine, although I loved how Gaston named his kid Gaston Jr.). Bearing in mind that it's a book written for young teenagers, I still liked a lot of the elements in it. Of course I was delighted with all the small references to the movies the villains played in, but I was especially pleased by the story around the politics of United States of Auradon. (Spoilers!) The sidekicks wanted more power and rights and I just adored how they explained what the rights of the sidekicks were. For example, Pongo and Perdita were in debts because they couldn't pay for all their kids going to college. 
 The story itself wasn't the greatest story ever written, but it was mostly everything around the story that made the read so special. 3,5 stars much deserved!