Aladdin: A Whole New World: A Twisted Tale (Twisted Tales)

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It was actually painfully boring to read the parts that were an exact novelization of the film. Why bother when I can just watch the excellent Disney version instead? note: this pre-review has no affiliation with Disney or this book, but I'm just entirely speculating) Rochon, Farrah (April 2, 2024). Fate Be Changed: A Twisted Tale. Disney-Hyperion. ISBN 9781368077569.

A Whole New World is basically a novelization of the animated Aladdin. If I want to watch Aladdin, I'll just watch Aladdin. I come to retellings for something new. I know, I know, Jafar's going to get the lamp first, and maybe something original will happen that. I can't vouch for that obviously. Jafar is pretty much still the evil power hungry villain so his first wish is to obviously become Sultan and rule all of Agrabah. In all of his madness he also wants to be loved willingly by his people and his soon to be wife Princess Jasmine.Iago: I'm just thinking that if Jafar had gotten the lamp before Mr. Goody-two-shoes prince over here, MAYBE I'd have my own palace, maybe I'd have my own entourage, maybe I'D have MY three wishes and get my own story. Is that too much to ask? The first six chapters are a mirror re-telling of the classic Disney movie. In fact, the tagline on the cover of the book “ What if Aladdin had never found the lamp?” is wildly misleading. Aladdin does find the lamp, and it is only once this happens do things start to go awry. Up until that point, we get all the same scenes, all the same dialogue, except built upon with more detail.

Genie is cheerfully snarky and uses references that shouldn't exist during that era, which really irritated me because a) it's a fantasy and modern slang should never appear and b) pay some respect to the culture that inspired it. Do some research. Aladdin was released when the public wasn't as conscious about this kind of thing. There's absolutely no excuse for it now. Mrs Potts, Chip Lumiere and Coggsworth are all as loveable in As Old As Time, as they are in Beauty and the Beast. Calonita, Len (April 2, 2019). Mirror, Mirror: A Twisted Tale. Disney-Hyperion. ISBN 9781982520458.I, thoroughly enjoyed the alternate of this Aladdin story, with Jafar getting possession of the genie lamp instead, definitely worth the read, twisting the relationships, the interactions of certain characters that were flipped due to this change of the story. So I will read the rest of the Twisted Tales, to know how it might turn out if those big factors had been changed. it's a new experience, I’m curious & as I said at the beginning of this review, I like to read these kinds of stories. What I can say is that, in the chapters I read, the characters are flatter than the animated characters on my tv. I get the feeling the reader's just supposed to fill in the personalities from the movie, which again why would I bother with the book then? All that's been added so far is that Aladdin had a sweet mom who died. I didn't feel like Jasmine or Aladdin grew very much, as characters. Jasmine, maybe, because she stopped being spoiled for about ten minutes so she could save the world. The thing is, Braswell does a lot of telling, and not showing. The same goes with Aladdin's character development. I will admit that I'm a tad bit disappointed that this didn't blow me away like I wanted it to. But I'm glad I didn't hate it like everyone else.

But the experience of reading "A Whole New World" wasn't really that new at all, unfortunately. The first problem was that 20-25% of the first part of the novel was something of a direct play-by-play of the movie with embellished (and often not funny or immersive) details leading up to when Jafar gets the lamp. You already know the story if you've watched the Disney movie, and I'd venture a guess the purpose of this series is not to introduce the story but appeal to people who already know the story of Aladdin (or the other twisted tales to follow). I don't think it needed the space of 20-25% of the novel doing that play-by-play because it made the story extremely tedious to slog through. I'll commend Braswell - at least - for the prologue because that was an all too brief eye into Aladdin's life as a boy (if you know the story of Howard Ashman and the writing of the song "Proud of Your Boy" for the original movie - you'll know that there were plans to go into Aladdin's boyhood, but they had to take it out for the sake of the story.)

I only had a copy of A Whole New World: A Twisted Tale so my book review will be based on that book alone.

Yikes! This could have gone a lot better. If you've seen the movie Aladdin (1992), then you're set. This book isn't necessary at all, if you've watched the movie. And even if you haven't watched the movie... there are issues with this book that are issues that I have that have to do with the writing, the structure, the plot, the basic development. This wasn't a good story, and it wasn't a good book based off the movie. Whatever it was, it wasn't great.A Whole New World, contrary to what I initially believed, is not really a retelling. Instead, it's more of a fan fiction that recreates the Disney film for the first approx. 25% - down to copying the exact dialogue in parts - but then changes a single element of the plot to spin the story in a new direction. A Twisted Tale, also called Twisted Tales in editions with the complete series, is an anthology series of books based around alternate " What if" spins on Disney animated and Pixar films. They are published by Disney-Hyperion, and written by different authors, including Liz Braswell, Jen Calonita, Elizabeth Lim, and Farrah Rochon. [1] Books [ edit ] A Whole New World (2015) [ edit ]