Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

As Old as Time by Liz Braswell

6 reviews

sar_lion's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful 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? Yes

4.0

Quite dark overall, but very well written with lots of changes to the Disney movie. But all good changes, in the long run. The characters already mean so much that I already felt connected to them from the jump. The additions were very interesting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexism and Racial slurs

Minor: Suicide and Sexual harassment

alexinitalics's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I definitely enjoyed this book, personally I was a very big fan of the flash back sections in the first half of the book, especially as the rest was basically just retelling the movie exactly. The second half focuses more on the "twisted tales" idea, continuing the timeline of the movie after a major change. It has a lot of clever ideas that it explored well, although I found it a little inconsistent. The villain was a good twist on the original story and I didn't see it coming. However I think it was also a little affected by the pacing as I felt there were two many reveals in a short space of time. I've seen a lot of people complain about Belle's characterisation but I personally didn't find this. I did think the beast's character was well written and the new characters were interesting to read about.
Overall, I definitely recommend this book for Disney/beauty and the beast/twisted tales fans but it's not one of my favourites from the series

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Torture, and Genocide

Minor: Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Body horror, Death of parent, and Forced institutionalization

quartzbeesknees's review

dark lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

The story itself was quite nice. It read a bit like fan fiction, which I suppose in a sense it is. I will admit I was disappointed with then ending, however it did encourage my reading streak to kick back up and definitely didn’t stop me from reading the entire book in one sitting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

Minor: Blood, Grief, Abandonment, and Toxic friendship

knunderb's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

Such a fun read! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Torture, Confinement, and Xenophobia

Minor: Terminal illness and Death of parent

maymoo's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

Very fun to read would recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Violence, and Vomit

Does romantic stockhomesyndrome.

rubydagger's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Medical trauma

Minor: Death of parent, Sexism, and Sexual harassment