The Prince tried to apologize but it was too late, for she had seen that there was no love in his heart.

Almost everything was fluttering and shuffling: the china was indeed waking from whatever slumber it enjoyed; dishes were carefully shuddering themselves to life; teacups were bouncing and trying to get out of their glass cabinet prison. 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. This is my favourite scene and I couldn't wait to read it in novel form, sadly the author decided otherwise.

Overall, I thought this was a wonderful re-imagination of a classic fairy tale and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it! Some links on my blog are affiliate links which means I might get a commission from qualifying purchases you make on them at no extra cost to you. Low key still confused as to why people didn't like the second one about Aurora because I actually really liked that one). The first book in this series about Aladdin was a huge disappointment, but the second one about Aurora was actually very good (though it seems most everyone else doesn't agree with me on that).

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?This felt incredibly young to me, and I might be slowly getting out of YA novels, which is super upsetting! Este libro me ha gustado muchísimo más que la película original porque la historia nos abarca mucho mas que una maldición, nos muestra la magia del mundo y como la avaricia y el miedo la ha consumiendo. Beauty and the Beast is known for the moral lesson it teaches: don't judge people based on outer appearance, but on what is inside.

Yet again this twisted tale is 30% "we're just going to quote the movie lol" and then it goes into the twist, which felt minor this time? 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. Me ha gustado el nuevo giro que le han dado al cuento clásico que todos conocemos de la bella y la bestia, creando en el lector un montón de incógnitas por desentrañar. It would have been beneficial for Maurice's backstory to collectively go after Belle's present-day storyline, so we'd be surprised with her. I don't want to spoil too much, but I think it's safe to say that from there on out it goes in a new direction.

This third installment in Disney's Twisted Tales series asks, what if Belle's mom had been the one to curse the Beast? the ending was beautiful, although the beast didn't turn out to his normal form, it was still beautiful to watch them figure out how to find the real beauty inside of themselves not outside. Cut to awhile down the road and Belle is older, she trades the beast of a hidden castle to take her prisoner instead of her father. When Belle touches the enchanted rose hidden away in the Beast's castle, memories flood through her mind - memories of a mother she thought she would never see again. That is the sign of a good book; a good book invokes an emotional response and leaves you feeling dazed.

Then this peculiar little peasant with unmanageable brown hair comes wandering into her provincial town with a book covering her face. 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. 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. His fur reeks, and while he may be able to take on a pack of wolves, a couple lunatic asylum employees are too difficult for him.

Potts "younger than expected" even though she was married to Maurice's friend and Maurice is old and all gray. Because books can dig deeper on characterization than film, you really get to know this book's version of Beast far better than the film version. 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? Where other princesses would fawn over a prince in disguise, Belle told a magnificent beast of a man to control his temper, taught him to read, and was fascinated rather than frightened by his animate servants.