On top of that, for Sally to have had birthparents is confusing considering she is a rag doll filled with stuffing. It doesn’t make sense that he would’ve kidnapped Sally when he was able to figure out how to create a person on his own. Finkelstein proved in the movie that he was able to create living animals and fellow people. Not only is the kidnapped trope overused, but it felt wrong for Sally’s story. Dream Town was a forgotten door that Sally stumbled upon and later learned was her birthplace. This is proved to not be true in Long Live the Pumpkin Queen when she learns she was actually from a place called Dream Town. Finkelstein built Sally, so she is his creation. In The Nightmare Before Christmas, it is known that Sally is a rag doll. It was unfortunate that Sally’s story wasn’t as well-told as Jack’s. Shea Ernshaw was excited to explore Sally’s character more and says, “In this book, I really wanted to explore Sally’s identity, and better understand not only who she is now that she’s fallen in love with Jack and taken on the role of the Pumpkin Queen, but also understand how her past has affected her present desires, doubts, and dreams.” The characters in Halloween Town are complex and have a lot of depth. In Long Live the Pumpkin Queen, it is the same idea but with Sally (his wife), the newly crowned Pumpkin Queen. He wasn’t sure if he was happy with who he was or who he had to be. In The Nightmare Before Christmas, Jack Skellington, The Pumpkin King, had an identity crisis. Putting the dullness of the story aside, the idea that sparked the making of Long Live the Pumpkin Queen was a good one. A review was left by someone under the username Annabel_Hawkins on Good Reads who said, “…this felt bland, uninspired, and lacking in any of the macabre that the film was so full of–nowhere in this novel did it feel like Halloween…” Long Live the Pumpkin Queen was dull and missing all the things that Halloween town was known and loved for. It felt like reading a middle school book. The story was missing a lot of the gruesome language and romance that was present in The Nightmare Before Christmas. It had large print and was only a little over three-hundred pages. The fact that this book was YA (young adult) was shocking. The only book that I have read from Shea Ernshaw was Long Live the Pumpkin Queen, which presented a beautifully written story with great detail despite this, the book was incredibly disappointing and over-hyped.
She is a New York Times bestselling author who has written A History of Wild Places, The Wicked Deep, Winterwood, and A Wilderness of Stars.
Long Live the Pumpkin Queen was released Augand was written by Shea Ernshaw. The only reason I really liked it was because it was good writing and not just boring stuff.” “The book wasn’t good-but it wasn’t absolutely terrible,” Symone Leak, a fellow student at Argo, gave her input on Long Live the Pumpkin Queen.
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