I really enjoyed how much meatier the world became this time around and I liked that I wasn't quite sure how it would all end up. Ok, so this is a more adult version of the Disney classic that stays true to the original storyline until Belle swerves toward the forbidden wing with the enchanted rose in it.

As Old As Time personally I feel that it was executed better in the regards of breaking up the monotony unlike A Whole New World did.

For example, we don't get a be our guest scene, but we do get a here's some food and wine and no we are not talking to you about anything. The Disney’s Twisted Tales series is put out by Disney’s publishing company Disney Publishing Worldwide which is a member of Hachette Books which was previously Hyperion Books. She is foolish at times, but that's charming--she can't be perfect, which makes her more human than the cardboard cutouts of earlier Disney heroines.

She also has short stories in Geektastic and Who Done It and a new series of reimagined fairy tales coming out, starting with A Whole New World—a retelling of Aladdin. I would say the overall takeaway from this book would be: don't judge people just because they are different from you; you never know what someone is going through. but after they find Belle's mother she tells the Beast that she can change him back into his human form. So, in this retelling Belle’s mother is the sorcerer that cursed the Beast at the beginning of the story.

When Belle realizes what has happened and what her own mother did (seriously who curses a 11 year old boy) she wants to do what she can to help the Beast and the enchanted servants. I could go on and on and on about how disappointing this book is (inane Doctor Who references, sexism, fourth-grade reading level language), but I better stop. I was also kind of disappointed that we didn't get the dancing scene with the yellow ball gown and everything, especially since it's a Disney novel. Despite the huge improvement from book one to book two, I didn't go into this book with super high expectations. Stunned and confused by the revelation, Belle and the Beast must work together to unravel years of mystery.

I didn’t quite realize that this was a retelling of Disney’s version of Beauty and the Beast, and not of the original book. In the end, Belle's mother is weakened so much that she can either revert the servants to their human forms or make the Beast human alone. Disney Publishing Worldwide owns the Disney Twisted Tales, the Kingdom Keepers, and the Disney Descendants series, as well as some other series you wouldn’t even think of, like Melissa de la Cruz’s Blue Bloods novels (more on that series next week). Nowhere do we get a sense of that self-sacrificing nature; instead we have a Belle who perhaps deserves her own curse.And to top her arrogance off, she thinks that she’s way too good for the Beast, instead he should set his hopes for some” nice peasant girl”. Following the parameters of a fairly strict retelling, this story feels like bonus content for the original animated movie.

The plot gradually unfolds and keeps readers guessing until the very end of the novel, with plenty of twists and turns along the way. and she figured out the Beast's past and that the enchantress who cursed Prince Adam, was her own mother. Entertainment: A Table is Waiting • Beauty and the Beast Live on Stage • Cinderella's Surprise Celebration • Cinderellabration: Lights of Romance • Disney's Believe • Disney Dreams: An Enchanted Classic • Enchanted Tales with Belle • Fantasmic! It feels like a fairy tale with a modern twist and that’s what it is, but there’s a bit more substance and it fills in a bit more plot holes then the original tales, but it keeps that feeling of wonder and suspension of disbelief. We also had the Christmas one, which wasn't bad; I saw the third one on Disney Channel once, and didn't care for it.Seriously, who reads or watches Beauty and the Beast and wonders, "Man, I wish I knew more about Maurice. Catch me literally repeating my rant from the last Twisted Tale book I read because they are all the same and I don't like them in the same way.