I love Beauty and the Beast-both movies and the history of the fairy tale in general (don’t get me started unless you’re ready for a major discussion!)-so I also enjoyed this book.
I’m not sure it added as much to the plot as I’d have preferred and it definitely limits the audience that this is appropriate for. I found the violence and torture in As Old as Time to be a bit more gratuitous than it was in A Whole New World.
Like A Whole New World, this is aimed at an older audience than other tie-ins tend to be.
A TWISTED TALE AS OLD AS TIME SERIES
But I find myself more and more wishing that the books in this particular series stuck closer to the plots we know, adding depth and context to admittedly thin plots and, to some extent, characters, rather than creating almost completely different stories. (Really? It’s ok to curse an 11 year old child and everyone in the castle because he acted like, I dunno, a somewhat snotty but pretty normal tween? That plot point always really bothered me.) I thoroughly enjoyed that aspect of the book, as I have with other Disney reimaginings. If you’re familiar with the movies, particularly the 1991 animated film, a lot of the issues that may have nagged at you are addressed. Like A Whole New World, this retelling pretty quickly veers off from the familiar plot of both movies, reimagining characters and adding lots of new characters and plot twists.
As Old as Time: A Twisted Tale is the Beauty and the Beast entry in the A Twisted Tale series from Disney Press.
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