It develops into prejudice, wanting to control those who have powers, and destroying them if they don’t fall in line.
But, as in many of the more interesting superhero stories, the people without magic both fear and value the people with magic. The enchantress who curses the young prince is Belle’s mother. The main difference in the setting is that magic people explicitly exist as a part of society in As Old as Time. SPOILER ALERT: Things you might want to know before suggesting this to your kid Prejudice
But I felt like there were some missed opportunities that would have made this novel more insightful. I love Beauty and the Beast-both movies and the history of the fairy tale in general (don’t get me started unless you’re ready for a major discussion!)-so I also enjoyed this book. I’m not sure it added as much to the plot as I’d have preferred and it definitely limits the audience that this is appropriate for.
I found the violence and torture in As Old as Time to be a bit more gratuitous than it was in A Whole New World. Like A Whole New World, this is aimed at an older audience than other tie-ins tend to be. But I find myself more and more wishing that the books in this particular series stuck closer to the plots we know, adding depth and context to admittedly thin plots and, to some extent, characters, rather than creating almost completely different stories. (Really? It’s ok to curse an 11 year old child and everyone in the castle because he acted like, I dunno, a somewhat snotty but pretty normal tween? That plot point always really bothered me.) I thoroughly enjoyed that aspect of the book, as I have with other Disney reimaginings. If you’re familiar with the movies, particularly the 1991 animated film, a lot of the issues that may have nagged at you are addressed. Like A Whole New World, this retelling pretty quickly veers off from the familiar plot of both movies, reimagining characters and adding lots of new characters and plot twists. As Old as Time: A Twisted Tale is the Beauty and the Beast entry in the A Twisted Tale series from Disney Press.
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