Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

A Whole New World by Liz Braswell

7 reviews

hypofocus's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring 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

3.5

This was a fun ride! An alternate version of a well known story has potential to go wrong in so many ways, but I really enjoyed this particular direction! There was great attention to cultural detail that I really appreciated as well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Classism, Death of parent, Death, Body horror, and Animal death

skyegbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

3.5

Reading this book after the beauty and the beast twisted tale was a dire disappointment. This books is somthing that anyone could of come up with. Additionally I did not like the insta-love trope.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, War, Animal death, Child death, and Death

Minor: Alcohol

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

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.

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

stormywolf's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful fast-paced

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

3.0

 Partly inspired by a certain internet movie reviewer, and partly because I am a bit of a fangirl, I decided I wanted to dedicate the month of December to all that is Disney! This series of reviews will focus on Disney-inspired media, obviously, and will hopefully expand over the years. This year I wanted to get the ball rolling on their Twisted Tales series, books that promise to re-imagine the Disney stories we know and love as new, darker takes. Will they be successful, or will the originals' magic still hold?

Read my full review at The Wolf's Den

Overall, there was a lot I liked in this story, but the execution was lacking. There are tons of valuable perspectives addressed throughout the story—of women in a patriarchal society, of poverty and morality, of power and justice—but without a central character to witness and react to these revelations and (hopefully) changes, it doesn't leave much of an impact when all's said and done. It is an interesting What If... story, to be sure, but would have greatly benefited from a tighter focus and/or more alterations to main characters. Still, as an introduction to the possibilities of these Twisted Tales, I'm definitely looking forward to what lies ahead, albeit with a bit more apprehension. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Animal death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Police brutality, and War