It's not perfect and it's not going to go down as one of my tippy-top favorites, but it was a surprise hit with me. En este caso nos encontramos con la historia de Bella y nos muestran todo lo que a la película le hizo falta. 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. 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.

And as awful as the antagonist is (and no, he isn't who you think he is), and despite his twisted logic and behavior, you are able to understand this person's reasoning and motives for doing what he did because the characters are fleshed out so well. 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. Y ese finaaaaal, para mi es de las cosas mas importantes en un libro y aquí los últimos capítulos no deja el corazón en las manos. 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.That is the sign of a good book; a good book invokes an emotional response and leaves you feeling dazed. I really liked the back-and-forth narrative, that told both a past tale alongside Belle's present one. Haven't finished reading it but so far I love it and definitely plan to read other books in the series. The ending leaves things on a totally different note than the Disney movie and I wonder how much better the movie would have been if it changed things to what Braswell did.

She thought handling something dangerous and manly like a knife would be more interesting for him than trying to work with something fiddly like pastry dough.

Shocked and confused, Belle and the Beast must work together to unravel a dark mystery about their families that is twenty-one years in the making. The same habits that made A Whole New World a hot mess, were included in As Old as Time including the whole let’s quote the movie.

So, in this retelling Belle’s mother is the sorcerer that cursed the Beast at the beginning of the story. There is a plague and a fairly harsh witch hunt, for lack of a better term, that all ultimately lead to the Beast's curse. 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. 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. As Old as Time is the third book in a new YA line that reimagines classic Disney stories in surprising new ways.As a result of the questionable moral compass of certain characters, this book was surprisingly sad at parts. That being said the Disney’s Twisted Tales series is based on classic Disney films, but gives them some sort of twist. At the core the book was a retelling of a fairytale and while Braswell was using the Disney movie as a template there were plenty of jumping off points that could’ve made the story interesting. I think if it had been another tale I might not have appreciated this repetition quite so much, but as both Disney adaptations of this story are so beloved to me I really liked hearing the tale again, here.