They’re both dealing with these facts that don’t paint their parents in the best light and they both have to learn from those mistakes. Belle also has to figure out if her mother was equally guilty by not helping when the king and queen ask and then cursing an innocent child. They learn more of the Beast’s parents and their involvement with the disappearances of Les Charmants. While the Beast and Belle are looking for a way to break the curse they discover a darker side of the tale.
Now as I mentioned before, the story changes when Belle touches the rose. This age fits better for when Belle meets the Beast 10 years later. If you think about it, this actually makes more sense. One thing that is different from the animated and live action versions of the story is that the prince is cursed at age 11 in the book. Well, we know what happens next, the prince becomes the Beast. She decides to test the young prince to see if he’s as unkind as the king and queen were. Rosalind was still upset about what was happening to Les Charmants. This means that their young son is left alone to rule. Without the help of Rosalind or anyone with magical abilities, the king and queen fell to the plague. She knows that the king and queen have something to do with the disappearances. She refuses to help because of what’s been done to Les Charmants. When a plague comes to the kingdom, the king and queen are desperate for help. Fearful for their lives and the life of their newborn baby, Rosalind and Maurice move to a neighboring village and begin to live without magic to the public eye.īut Rosalind is angry and resentful toward the king and queen. Les Charmants start to disappear from the kingdom. Over time, the king and queen (Beast’s parents) start to become fearful of Les Charmants living in their kingdom. It turns out that the Beast’s mother and father ruled a kingdom that used to accept those with magical abilities, called Les Charmants. We also find out why Rosalind curses the Beast. She starts to realize that she doesn’t have a lot of memories of her mother which may be from a forgetting curse that her mother cast of everyone. Of course, Belle figures out that the enchantress that cursed the Beast and the castle is her mother Rosalind. Belle and the Beast must figure out if there’s a way to stop the curse. A icy web covers the entire castle and grounds and seems to trap everyone inside. When Belle touches the rose, it disintegrate and the cruse over the castle seems to get worse. But this time the Beast doesn’t stop her time and her touching of the rose changes everything. Belle lifts the glass dome away from the rose and reaches to touch it.
#TALE AS OLD AS TIME A TWISTED TALE MOVIE#
The beginning of the book goes over the same story from the animated movie up until the moment Belle ventures into the Beast’s room and finds the enchanted rose. Her name is Rosalind and we get to read about how she met and fell in love with Belle’s father, Maurice. In this book though, we learn more about Belle’s mother. The animated Disney tale never refers to Belle’s mother and the live action version just shows a glimpse at Belle’s mother’s passing. “As Old As Time” asks “What if Belle’s mother cursed the Beast?” which is an interesting question. This month we read “As Old As Time” by Liz Brasell. Each book asks that “What If” question about a different Disney tale so they don’t have to be read in order either.
#TALE AS OLD AS TIME A TWISTED TALE SERIES#
This series is a great “What If” type of series where the good guy might not look like they’re going to win and everything seems to be going wrong. Hardcover (September 6th, 2016): $17.In this month’s review we’re going to take a look at another book from the Twisted Tale Series.
You can email her at or tweet Product Details She lives in Brooklyn with a husband, two children, a cat, a part-time dog, three fish and five coffee trees she insists will start producing beans any day. She also wrote A Whole New World, the first book in the new A Twisted Tale series. Finally she caved into fate and wrote Snow and Rx under the name Tracy Lynn, followed by The Nine Lives of Chloe King series under her real name, because by then the assassins hunting her were all dead. After the sort of introverted childhood you would expect from a writer, Liz earned a degree in Egyptology at Brown University and then promptly spent the next ten years producing video games.