Reviews tagging 'Torture'

A Whole New World by Liz Braswell

15 reviews

presco's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood and War

amanda_mh's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

Liz Brazwell took a well known and beloved story and turned it into a much darker story that captured my attention from the first introduction of the world. In this  version she somehow made Jafar more diabolical, and Jasmine more independent and powerful. Really enjoyed this one! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, Torture, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

scramuel058's review

adventurous dark lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death of parent, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism and War

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

emileemaree's review against another edition

adventurous dark lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

toy_masterpiece's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Death, Torture, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death

maxnightshade's review

adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Minor: Child death and Torture

holiday7's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I'm not really the biggest fan of Aladdin. But I kind of liked this one. It was pretty good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child death, and Blood

Minor: Animal death, Police brutality, and Fire/Fire injury

rambles's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

3.5

The beginning of the book is just a rehash of the movie which makes sense you have to get to the Cave of Wonders part. It goes deeper into the character’s minds  so it’s alright.  The middle is where this story shines. It’s well researched and I felt immersed in the world. Jasmine and Aladdin have so much more character in this. It’s dark and thrilling. The ending in my opinion was disappointing. It was building up to something cool but the ending in the movie is much more clever and satisfying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Blood and Murder

So I don’t know how to put this but the

scene where Jafar takes apart the carpet would be so much more graphic in this novel would no longer be Waihee if it was a human, and that was the part of the book that disturbed me the most.

kibbles15's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying and War

Minor: Misogyny

asahome's review against another edition

1.5

 A man loses his mind and destroys my childhood.

I think this ruined my childhood... I mean, I know that sounds dramatic, but while reading the required book, I wanted to put it down so many times. I forced myself to finish, but it was so dark. So sad...  It made me so sad to think about how far people were willing to go to get power. Madness is not something that can be predicted. I finished this book and don't know if I'll continue with this series of books.

And what was done to Carpet... 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Death, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death and Confinement