Reviews tagging 'Torture'

A Whole New World by Liz Braswell

11 reviews

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: Torture, Death, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death

maxnightshade's review against another edition

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: Torture and Child death

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: Torture, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Blood, and Animal cruelty

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

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

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: 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.

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

writtenbydnicole's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, and Violence

breeoxd's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

Much darker than I thought it would be, this first in the twisted tale lives up the the name. Overall tone is a bit Arabian princess gets woke and street rats have morals, but there are some very disturbing sections in here where Jafar goes crazy. Wish we had a bit more backstory on Jafar- he makes a bit of a weak villain with no real purpose. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Torture