As Old as Time: A Twisted Tale

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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. And reading about magical people who were afraid since they were being persecuted by those who were "normal".

They are being hunted by the King and Queen who see them as a dangerous threat and Rosalind decides to do something about it.I may have watched both the disney animation and the live action movie of beauty and beast a thousand time, and I would never get tired of that specially with this book, with the same well known story, I feel like I was back in that story again. If you are debating whether or not to read this book because you did not enjoy the first two, I hope this review convinces you to give it a chance! The fact that Maurice released a breath he didn't realize he was holding lost respect points in my book. Seriously who ever watched BatB and thought, "Man I would LOVE to read a book where half of the story is dedicated to good old wacky Maurice not really doing anything. Shocked and confused, Belle and the Beast will have to unravel a dark mystery about their families that is 21 years in the making.

Repulsed by her haggard appearance, the Prince sneered at the gift and turned the old woman away- although she warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for true beauty is found within. This review will be full of spoilers, but I don't give an enchanted clock about that because you don't need to waste your time reading it anyway. And by being ‘just’ a retelling of Disney’s story, the author didn’t have to come up with her own characters or world-building, instead she just piggy-backed on people’s childhood nostalgia – and utterly failed.Between the two YA series Disney publishes, I still prefer Serena Valentino's Disney Villan series but this book has secured the fact that I am officially a fan of the Twisted Tales series too.

So, in this retelling Belle’s mother is the sorcerer that cursed the Beast at the beginning of the story.

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. Did the enchantress really expect the prince to learn to be kind, and caring, and loving by isolating him from the rest of the world, locking him into an enchanted castle that no one remembers, and by turning an unloved little boy into a hideous monster?

Haven't finished reading it but so far I love it and definitely plan to read other books in the series. It was a bit confusing to flip back and forth between the past and the present (the 2 storylines of beauty and the beast and the story of maurice) but I got used to it eventually. As a result of the questionable moral compass of certain characters, this book was surprisingly sad at parts. So when Belle's mother says that Belle will eventually marry the Beast because they love each other, are you trying to tell me that Belle is going to marry an 11 year old?Another annoying thing was that Belle would reference things that happened in her books ALL THE TIME, but the thing is, she would reference things that is literally KNOWN TO HAPPEN IN HER STORY. All this book did was make me want to put it down and immediately watch the movies so maybe this crappy Disney sanctioned fanfiction did its job.