As Old as Time: A Twisted Tale

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Belle is characterized slightly differently than the Belle I know from the movie, but not enough for me to get annoyed over it. Her reaction when she saw Beast's library matched mine--awe, mixed with a desire to read everything and not knowing where to start. The book explains a lot of things that didn't make sense in the original writings but then asks a lot more! Although it is a lot darker than the original Disney film, As Old As Time answers a lot of questions I had about the story in new and unexpected ways.

Some scenes were utterly ridiculous, for instance the Beast talks in capital letters more often than not (I know, I know, it's big coming from me but this is a Goodreads review, not a published novel). Belle’s story starts diverging from the original when she touches the enchanted rose and starts seeing flashbacks of her mother and even bits and pieces of the whole story from her mother’s memory. Belle to me in this story came across a little haughty and you do see her learn not to judge a book by its cover. When Belle touches the Beast's enchanted rose, memories flood through Belle's mind — memories of a mother she thought she would never see again. Shocked and confused, Belle and the Beast will have to unravel a dark mystery about their families that is 21 years in the making.Stranger still, she sees that her mother is none other than the beautiful Enchantress who cursed the Beast, his castle, and all its inhabitants. Trapped in the castle with the terrifying Beast, Belle learns there is much more to her angry captor when she touches the enchanted rose. Es ist auch ein Stück weit erwachsener, konkreter und somit etwas brutaler als das Original, was ich persönlich aber wirklich gut fand, um die Spannung hochzuhalten.

but after they find Belle's mother she tells the Beast that she can change him back into his human form. She lives in Brooklyn with a husband, two children, a cat, a part-time dog, three fish and five coffee trees she insists will start producing beans any day.It's not perfect and it's not going to go down as one of my tippy-top favorites, but it was a surprise hit with me. As a result of the questionable moral compass of certain characters, this book was surprisingly sad at parts. Stories of witches with their fires and stoves and terrible, terrible endings played through her head.

But Belle touches the Beast’s enchanted rose, intriguing images flood her mind—images of the mother she believed she would never see again. As Old As Time is the Beauty and the Beast Twisted Tale but in this, Belle's mother is the enchantress who cursed the Beast and his servants.Anmerken möchte ich abschließend allerdings, dass ein paar Versuche der Autorin, feministisch zu klingen, etwas schief gegangen sind – aber das sollte man bei dem Märchen vielleicht ein wenig ausklammern. Nowhere do we get a sense of that self-sacrificing nature; instead we have a Belle who perhaps deserves her own curse. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. The closest thing we go to an "I love you" was a soppy, out of character line: "You may be a beast, but you are my Prince.