Audio Book Review: Twisted Tales books 3 - 6

 

As Old As Time (Disney Twisted Tales #3) by Liz Braswell, read by James Patrick Cronin

Summary: What if Belle's mother had cursed the Beast?

484 Pages

Rating: B+

Reflection (Disney Twisted Tales #4) by Elizabeth Lim, read by Emily Woo Zeller

Summary: What if Mulan had to travel to the Underworld?

416 Pages

Rating: A-

Part of Your World (Disney Twisted Tales #5) by Liz Braswell, read by Saskia Maarleveld

Summary: What if Ariel had never defeated Ursula?

475 Pages

Rating: C+

Mirror, Mirror (Disney Twisted Tales #6) by Jen Calonita, read by Emily Woo Zeller

Summary: What if the Evil Queen poisoned the prince?

344 Pages

Rating: C+

Fantasy/Romance/Dystopia

Still having fun reading these, although the last two are two of my least favorite so far in the series. But that has more to do with my disagreements about what Disney thinks these books should be vs the original stories these came from. As Old as Time added some wonderful value to the original story, and a great deal more adventure, and Reflection even more. If you love those two Disney movies, I highly recommend them. 

However, if you are a fan of the original stories of the Little Mermaid, and Snow White over the Disney versions, these might be lacking for you. Also, if you have a problem with the plotline of "children saving the universe," these will both grate on your nerves. Part of Your World has some lack of comprehension of things that really annoyed me and dropped the rating a good deal. Mirror Mirror had Snow White blaming herself for the Wicked Queen taking over the kingdom which made no sense when she was literally a CHILD when the woman took over. So... if you think those things might bother you, these are definitely ones to skip.

The positive? These are completely unconnected to each other in any way aside from the Twisted Tales series title. So each can be read in any order, and can be ignored entirely for any reason. For myself, I plan not to read book number seven, which is one of my least favorite Disney films, as well as number eleven, which I also dislike. But it's a great variety of story which don't all even have strong romance elements to them, which makes them especially nice for sharing with the kids, so long as they don't mind a little bit of scary stuff.

Overall? I intend to keep going with this series for as long as they publish, though I will be avoiding certain Disney movies that I dislike. But at least they made that very easy to do.

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