Reviews tagging 'Death'

A Whole New World by Liz Braswell

27 reviews

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

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

Minor: Confinement and Animal death

vixenreader's review

adventurous dark emotional lighthearted mysterious relaxing tense medium-paced

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

3.25

The re-telling of “Aladdin” treads a fine line between a replica of the original source and fan-fiction, it is a lot better, and surprisingly more inspired, than it could have been. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, War, Murder, Death of parent, Violence, Slavery, Torture, and Death

Moderate: Grief, Police brutality, Body horror, Medical content, Body shaming, Confinement, Animal cruelty, and Gore

Minor: Fatphobia, Genocide, Classism, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, and Animal death

Ultranationalist governments, arranged marriage, starvation, thirst, poverty, theft, and drowning in sand are also featured in the text.

ylienna's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Child death

Minor: Police brutality

jordan_uhden's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Death of parent, Child death, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

maiareadss's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

3.5⭐️ it was a good read. It relied on the live action version a little too much. The added characters saved the whole book. It started off light then took a dark turn. It didn’t get super interesting until the 2nd half. It honestly didn’t need to be that long but still good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Torture, Blood, Death, Gore, and Violence

ash_12234's review

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Blood

theblondebird's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Child death, and Death of parent

emma_iride's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Even if I’m not a huge fan of the film, I liked this book for me it was a rollercoaster of emotion and I liked how the author put raw and violent scenes compared to the cartoon.
I also enjoyed the background story and the add of new characters.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Violence

gattolinos_nerdy_nook's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

When I read about the twisted tales series, I figured the "twisted" part was because it was a what if scenario. What a rookie mistake.

First and foremost I need to get this off my chest. THE WHAT IF SCENARIO IS NOT ABOUT ALADDIN NOT FINDING THE LAMP IT IS ABOUT JAFAR GETTING THE LAMP. Ok so the tag line doesn't really effect the book but it irked  me when I was reading because that what is this didn't happen, still happened. 
For the actual plot I found that I really engaging and can see why people really like this series. This was also a lot darker then I was expecting with death and other things happening, mind you that this is also a Disney book. It also gave me final book in a series vibes which does make me want to look into Liz Braswell's catalog and see if they have any series to read.

Great read to end a jammed packed month.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

maymoo's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

This book was absolutely fantastic but

the end was afull as they destroyed the premiums of the book and made it extremely hard to finish

I would never read this book again but the beginning was good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Incest, Murder, Police brutality, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Bullying, Grief, Genocide, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexism