Title: As Old as Time
Author: Liz Braswell
Series: Twisted Tales book 3
Pages: 496
Genre: fairy tale retelling
Rating: 4 stars
In As Old as
Time Liz Braswell propose a twist to the Beauty and The Beast story
with a retelling in which Belle's mother was the enchantress who cursed the
beast. However the reader knows (it's in the blurb of the book) this but none
of the characters in the story know this. However other than that
little twist and the twist that comes when Belle discovers the rose, it is
pretty much the same Disney storyline with no characters added. Though the
ending is different.
With this story you
do get a little bit more of the beast's back-story, but not that much. Most of
the back-story that you get is about Belle. You get to see her childhood and
you discover at least from Liz Braswell view of why it's just Belle and her
father.
I enjoyed this
retelling but I didn't love it. It's a great twist on the classic story. It is
also the third book in the twisted tales series. Liz Braswell also had two
others out. A Whole New World a twist on Aladdin and Once
Upon a Dream a twist on Sleeping Beauty. Coming in
March 2018 is Reflection Elizabeth Lim a twist on Mulan.
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