They leave home, finding work on a farm where Katherine finds her passion within the apple orchard, cultivating a new variety of apple which will later attract the attention of the King. As a result of their upbringing, Ingrid, the elder sister, has adopted a motherly role towards her younger sister Katherine and strives to protect the innocent girl at all times. Through these flashbacks we meet Katherine and Ingrid: two sisters whom have lost their mother and are being raised by their neglectful, sometimes violent, father. Let’s be honest, everyone knows the story of Snow White but not everyone knows the story before Snow White and it is here where the twisted tale evolves. In my opinion, this is a genius idea as it provides an undeniable depth to her characters. Jen Calonita’s novel is also heavily built on story telling through flashbacks. The reader is completely under the control of these two women: finding themselves with no choice but to witness the familiar story from their perspective. Mirror, Mirror explores the traditional Grimm fairy tale of Snow White through the eyes of the two main characters: the Evil Queen and Snow White herself. If I’m honest I initially thought the tagline to this Snow White twisted tale novel was a massive plot spoiler but, when you are 300 pages into a book and no-one has eaten a poisoned apple, it may be the ideal opportunity to admit you were wrong. I was not told what to say, I was not paid to write this review and all the opinions expressed are my own.“What if the Evil Queen poisoned the prince?” I received this book for review from the publisher, Disney Books in exchange for an honest review. Book Review of A Whole New World on a Post-it It was a little too much for me and I didn’t enjoy it. The writing had a lot of italics going on. View Spoiler » Genie is freed but since he was never friends with Aladdin its actually very depressing. The ending is surprisingly similar to the movie. I wasn’t totally convinced that the Genie even wanted to be free. The genie mentions once that he would maybe like to be freed and it suddenly becomes a huge motivation for Aladdin and Jasmine. He takes the depressed personality that he has at the end of the original Aladdin movie for the entire book. They felt bad so I couldn’t help wondering, “Then why did they do it?” I have no idea. The worst case was when they left the magic carpet behind. The motives for Aladdin and Jasmine were not explained sometimes. (pg 48).” That sounds oddly modern and extremely educated for a street rat. Aladdin says to Jasmine, “Our upward mobility is strictly limited. (Katniss is coming to stop the Hunger Games any minute Jafar you watch yourself) But when Jafar had an army of guards called “Peacekeeping Patrols” that’s when I knew that this was Dystopian. Duh.” I appreciated when the author showed all the problems that caused. Jafar gives out free money to everyone and I’m thinking, “That will cause inflation. He’s interested in breaking the Genie’s three laws of magic to make everyone love him. The dystopian story line is full of black and white politics. The romance had about as much spark as wet fireworks. The romance was instant and not very developed. When I first saw the tagline “What if Aladdin had never found the lamp?” I thought that Aladdin was going to try and win Jasmine’s love with no magic and I was so excited! Since Jafar gets the lamp instead of Aladdin, it takes an oddly dystopian turn with no romance (not excited anymore). On page 82 Jasmine actually goes looking for Aladdin after he’s sent to prison. We get a tiny bit more of Aladdin’s backstory but almost all of the dialogue stays the same. Even for a novelization of a movie, that’s pretty unusual. The first 82 pages of A Whole New World are extremely similar to the Disney movie, Aladdin. And readers will never look at the story of Aladdin in the same way again. What happens next? A Street Rat becomes a leader. But soon their fight for freedom threatens to tear the kingdom apart in a costly civil war. Agrabah lives in fear, waiting for his third and final wish.To stop the power-mad ruler, Aladdin and the deposed Princess Jasmine must unite the people of Agrabah in rebellion. When Jafar steals the Genie’s lamp, he uses his first two wishes to become sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. Each book asks the question: What if one key moment from a familiar Disney film was changed? This dark and daring version of Aladdin twists the original story with the question: What if Jafar was the first one to summon the Genie? Welcome to a new YA series that reimagines classic Disney stories in surprising new ways.
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