I’m a sucker for this series and will continue to pick them up. As Old As Time (A Twisted Tale) by Liz Braswell SPOTS over 3 months ago by effirosli RM18.90 6 Likes Like new In Storybooks Format: Paperback Condition. I thought that was well done here by Braswell. Hunted by Meagan Spooner or Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust), but for this series, the point is to have the original story with one twist that affects the outcome. Some retellings you want to be wildly creative and unique (e.g. The rest was icing on the cake, filling in the back story of the time before the movie kicks off. At the time of writing, the series consists of five titles published over the past four years, with the sixth newly released this April 2019. As Old as Time is the third book in the Twisted Tales series. There is a plague and a fairly harsh ‘witch hunt’, for lack of a better term, that all ultimately leads to the Beast’s curse.Īs I mentioned earlier, this felt like bonus content to the Disney animated version from 1991 because a good portion of this stuck so true to that original. BOOK REVIEW: As Old as Time: A Twisted Tale by Liz Brazwell Sheds Light on Belle’s Backstory. We learn about the kingdom at a time when magic was still present, as well as about the Beast’s parents and their unkind rule over their kingdom. This reimagining tells who she was, the Enchantress that cursed the Beast. The Belle we know is without a mother, living with her father, an inventor, on the outskirts of town.īut of course Belle once had a mother. We get a back and forth timeline here, one following Belle in the present part of the story we are familiar with, and the other telling of Belle’s parents before she was born.

An imaginative twist on the ‘tale as old as time’ that we all know and love!Īs Old As Time, the third installment in Disney’s Twisted Tales series puts forth the question, what if Belle’s mom was the one to curse the Beast?įollowing the parameters of a fairly strict retelling, this story has bonus content!

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