Disney Press, 2022. 345 pages. Young Adult.
Before Prince Eric's mother, the Queen of Vellona, went missing two years ago, she reminded him about the details of the deadly curse that has plagued his entire life. The curse? If he were to kiss someone other than his true love, he would die. With a neighboring kingdom looking for any excuse to invade their shores, and rumors of ghost pirates lurking the seas, Eric is desperate for any information that may help him break his enchantment and bring stability to Vellona. The answers he has been searching for come to him in the form of a letter left from his mother that reveals Eric must find his true love, the one with a voice pure of heart, or kill the sea witch responsible for cursing him in the first place. Now Eric is on a quest to find the Isle of Serein, the witch's legendary home. But after he is rescued by a mysterious young woman with a mesmerizing singing voice, Eric's heart becomes torn. Does he enter a battle he is almost certain he cannot win or chase a love that might not even exist? And when a shipwrecked young woman with flaming red hair and a smile that could calm the seven seas enters his life, Eric may discover that true love isn't something that can be decided by magic.
This book is based off of the Disney 1989 animated feature "The Little Mermaid," even containing scenes in which the dialog is word-for-word from the movie! I enjoyed this expanded retelling of a Disney classic from Prince Eric's point of view. While the movie scenes felt a little bit disjointed from the characters' overall development, the intriguing addition of Prince Eric's curse and fast-paced nature of the plot kept the pages turning. I definitely recommend this book to my fellow Disney-ophiles and to readers who enjoy fractured fairytales!
This book is based off of the Disney 1989 animated feature "The Little Mermaid," even containing scenes in which the dialog is word-for-word from the movie! I enjoyed this expanded retelling of a Disney classic from Prince Eric's point of view. While the movie scenes felt a little bit disjointed from the characters' overall development, the intriguing addition of Prince Eric's curse and fast-paced nature of the plot kept the pages turning. I definitely recommend this book to my fellow Disney-ophiles and to readers who enjoy fractured fairytales!
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Simon Pulse, 2003. 197 pages. Young Adult.
A woven tapestry of magic, adventure, and romance tells the tale of a stunning mermaid, a horrible curse, and the power of love in the Kingdom of Aster, a place where legends are born.
Disney Press, 2023. 315 pages. Young Adult.
Drizella and Anastasia only know one thing for certain: they will never end up like their mother, Lady Tremaine. When their father left them as young girls, he took what was left of their family's fortune and their mother's dignity with him. A few years and one deceased stepfather later, the only version of Lady Tremaine that Drizella and Anastasia know is a bitter and cruel head of house. Anastasia and Drizella have promised themselves-- and each other--that they'll be different. They'll find love, see the world, and never let their hearts go cold. But both sisters are all too aware of what it can mean when cast into disfavor with their mother, and fueled by Lady Tremaine's tendencies to pit the daughters against one another, Drizella and Anastasia are locked into a complicated waltz of tenuous sisterhood.
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