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As Molly learns of Tim's night with Leah - sad that he didn't think enough of her to tell her the truth - she breaks up with him, using a charm given to her by Zatanna to return home to her family. At first, she berates him for his inability to connect to the real world - until she spots his moth tattoo and realizes that it is preventing him from being able to connect so that he never has anyone close to him to get hurt.
She encourages him to "open" himself and let the world in, which removes the tattoo and eventually leads Tim to decide that his magic belongs to the world and not him. He releases it into the universe and resolves that he will have nothing more to do with it.
Although Tim thinks he is finished with magic, magic is not finished with him. Returning home with the fallen angel Araquel — who had previously been tricked in to breaking his chains by Barbatos — Tim finds that the armies of Heaven and Hell are fighting each other to a standstill in the mortal world. The prize they are fighting for is the magic that Tim released into the world, which would give them the power to recreate the world to their own design. Tim's family find themselves caught in the crossfire of the battle when his father's wedding to Holly is interrupted by the groom transforming into a ravenous beast with a taste for angel-flesh.
It transpires that Mister Vasuki, the surgeon who miraculously restored Mr Hunter to health after the fire, is in truth a demon hoping to force Tim to work for him. In retaliation, two angels elevate Tim's soon-to-be stepbrother Cyril to sainthood, and provide him with a foursome of living action-figures with dangerous powers.
Araquel becomes their victim, turned into chocolate and smashed to pieces on the ground. Tim uses Awn the Blink and Reverend Slaggingham to trap all the angels and demons. In his anger, Tim throws an ice-cream at the leader of the angelic forces She calls an end to the conflict having achieved her objective: Tim's new family try to settle back to normality, with Cyril and Tim's father returned to normal and his new stepmother blaming everybody's amnesia on too much wine at the reception.
Tim is just enjoying his new freedom from magic when he finds the box that Leah used to live in: He spends a lifetime there, talking to a tree that grew from a seed that fell inside his patch of ground. When a fire starts to destroy the forest, Tim's anger puts him back in touch with his magic as he tries desperately to save his one tree Waiting for him is Leah, who trapped him in the box in the hope of teaching him an important lesson about his magic.
But the lesson hasn't been learned in the way that she hoped, because of Tim's focus on the small scale: Exasperatingly, Leah cannot even decide if Tim is wholly wrong in thinking that way. Instead, she leaves Tim with the important reminder that he might try to throw away his magic, but he will never wholly succeed: Peter Gross explained his 25 issue run on the book as being the story of Tim's "boy time", commenting that previously the book had often presented benevolent female characters but had been less successful at their benevolent male counterparts.
His story was partly designed, then, to show Tim accepting his male side and learning how to be a boy - one of Gross' reasons for not using the character of Molly during his run. He did comment that if he had stayed on the book, Gross' next story would have shown Tim similarly exploring his feminine side and would therefore have reintroduced some of the established female characters such as Molly or Gwen.
He announced his run as going "in another direction" and not trying "to duplicate John's success". Gross also showed a conscious break from exploring issues of Tim's parentage, having Titania announce that she would "never aid [Tim] again" after he refused to accept a precious - and potentially life-saving - gift from her. Gross' first story arc, then, dealt with Tim settling into Bardsley school and meeting Thomas Currie, a man who had traveled through various worlds searching for the true Tim to either prepare him to defeat his Other or kill him to prevent the Other stealing his power.
Currie took advantage of the disappearance of a teacher at Bardsley so that he could take his place and interact with Tim, [26] but this only caused problems for both as Tim's stepbrother Cyril saw the teacher die whilst potholing under the school and used the status he gained from controlling the other boys' access to the body to turn the school against the new teacher and Tim, [28] although his influence only lasted until Tim and Currie removed the body and the teacher resigned. However, Tim is unaware that his Other has already arrived in the true world, causing a traffic accident that injures his father and Cyril and kills his stepmother, Holly.
This causes Currie to go onto a war footing: The teacher then drains Tim's magic and hides it in a prearranged place: Living as Mary and working at the Inn, Tim becomes best friends with a girl called Joh - a relationship complicated when she sees him as Tim and falls in love with him, forcing Tim to admit the truth.
In order to defeat the Other, Tim needs the help of the demon Barbatos - help which he can only obtain by selling a memory to the demon and sealing his fate as Sir Timothy Hunter. Tim faces up to his responsibilities, and sacrifices his future: Barbatos takes the memory of Tim's creation of his Other, making it impossible for the Other to exist separately from Tim and the many separate pieces of Tim are reunited for the first time in his life.
Tim's soul is immediately forfeit to Barbatos, and he becomes his slave [41] but sets in place the chain of events that eventually leads to the demon being defeated and trapped in the Dreaming. Once free, the demon discovered the true nature of Tim's apparent defeat: The final image of the issue, and The Books of Magic , showed Tim whole and complete, finally grown-up and ready to face whatever challenges the future held with "no more whining".
In addition to the mini-series and the ongoing series, Vertigo also produced four The Books of Magic annuals. The second, actually titled The Books of Magic Annual 1 due to the change in name from "Arcana", told the story of Tim's encounter with a minor god's daughter who was one of Tamlin's cast-off conquests. The third Annual is set during Tim's time in America, and sees him saving a child abuse victim from similar abuse at the hands of the Minotaur , transported to modern day America to hide in a nightclub called The Labyrinth.
The final annual was the only one not to be written in its entirety by John Ney Reiber, coming part way into Peter Gross' run on the ongoing series. Gross used the annual to give some background to Tim's Other, showing his realization of the existence of other worlds and development into the ruthless character seen in the monthly series. Neither of these annuals have been republished in collected editions. There were also three spin-off mini-series set in the Faerie realm, entitled The Books of Faerie. The first two volumes dealt with the rise to power of Titania and Auberon respectively, whilst the third documents the misadventures of Molly O'Reilly as she tried to come to terms with the curse placed upon her by Titania during the Girl in the Box storyline.
There were also plans to create an ongoing The Books of Faerie series starring Molly O'Reilly, but these were eventually abandoned. In December , a two-issue crossover with Hellblazer was published, with a script from the then current Hellblazer writer Paul Jenkins from a story written in collaboration with John Ney Rieber. The artwork was by artist Paul Lee. The two issues showed Tim Hunter coming into possession of a time capsule that had been made by John Constantine as a child.
The capsule contained all of Constantine's childhood innocence, placed there in one of his first acts of magic to rid himself of the perceived weakness. Tim attempts to return the box to its original owner, but Constantine wants nothing to do with it; until it falls into the hands of a demon called Kobal "Master of the Infernal Theatre".
Tim and Constantine end up journeying to Hell — specifically Constantine's own Hell, described as much more dangerous than the fluffy monster Hell that Tim visited in the "Reckonings" storyline — where the younger magician manages to trick the demon into returning the box. Vertigo published a number of winter specials under the title Winter's Edge , featuring short stories based on their current properties and featuring stories to preview upcoming series and one-shots. A Day, a Night and a Dream. The issue was intended to be an introduction to the ongoing series and the wider world of Vertigo, [47] but was eventually incorporated into the main comic's storyline instead.
Another ongoing series called Hunter: The Age of Magic 25 issues followed shortly after the end of this series. It ran from September to September , and told of his graduation and what happened to him afterwards. Another series, Books of Magick: Life During Wartime began in July and lasted fifteen issues. This series depicts two Earths, both of which have a strong connection to an alternate version of Tim Hunter.
On one of these worlds a war is going on between humans known as the Bred and the races of the Faerie known as the Born. The world is ruled by the Born, but there is a resistance made up of both Born and Bred that features versions of Zatanna and John Constantine among others. The second world is one made by Tim Hunter as a place of safety where he can hide from his enemies. The series have been collected into a number of trade paperbacks. Issues of the Books of Magick: In , HarperCollins began publishing a series of Books of Magic young adult novels under the Eos imprint, adapted from the comics series, by Carla Jablonski.
Each novel featured cover art by Christopher Moeller. The first book is based on the original miniseries. The subsequent books are based on story arcs in the second series; except The Children's Crusade , which is based on the Vertigo crossover event of the same name. A film version of The Books of Magic has been in development hell for many years. It was originally optioned "by Warners some years before the first Harry Potter book was published" [49] a series which has been frequently compared to this series, see Harry Potter influences and analogues , with Neil Gaiman signing on as executive producer in They worked with screenwriter Matt Greenberg , who had written early drafts of the original script, to come up with some closer to the original story.
The section was written by author Neil Penswick , as part of a chapter written in tandem by the authors of the previous 49 novels. The faerie market in Gaiman's novel Stardust has many similarities to the one presented in the original miniseries. This may not be surprising as it's simply a case of Gaiman borrowing a portion of one work to use in the other.
The faerie market also makes references to amongst other things My Neighbour Totoro , Kiki's Delivery Service , Rupert Bear , and a possible future Sir Timothy Hunter, which can be seen directly to the right of Tim Hunter when he first arrives at the market. In , Timothy Hunter and the Books of Magic make a return in The New 52 series Justice League Dark where a reluctant Tim, having given up his magic, is reunited with John Constantine and Madame Xanadu to stop an old nemesis of Constantine's from getting his hands on the books.
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Views Read Edit View history. In other projects Wikiquote. This page was last edited on 31 October , at By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. DC Comics Vertigo for volume 2 and the collected editions. Neil Gaiman John Bolton. View all 9 comments. Mar 27, Darth J marked it as no-longer-interested Shelves: View all 8 comments. May 01, Ashley rated it did not like it Shelves: I get that this was an Aladdin retelling, but couldn't there have been some more variance?
But it didn't get any better Zero passion, zero development, zero everything. They just existed and that's it. They were not fleshed out at all. He seemed so hollow and not scary: There was no depth, no intensity, no epicness. Or at least insta-crushy. It's like that in Aladdin, I know, but for some reason it feels totally okay in the movie. But in a book, I expect more. With more pages and more room for development, I want to see a better, slower, more thought out romance.
I was curious to see how the story would turn out, but to be honest, I just wasn't enjoying it at all. I was dragging my feet and finally got tired of it. View all 10 comments. This is the first instalment in a series of Disney retellings, penned by Liz Braswell. A Whole New World is the story of what would have happened to Aladdin if he were not the one to lay his hands on the magical lamp and acquire the power of the genie. This, true to its design, had a true Disney feel to it. I'm not sure if I could really appreciate the comical cheesiness, that Disney does so well, in the written format, however.
I grew accustomed to this style of penmans Actual rating 2. I grew accustomed to this style of penmanship and liked how authentic to the Disney movie this still remained, despite the clear narrative differences, but am not sure if it was wholly to my tastes. The jovial tone made for a fun reading experience but one bereft of any deeper emotion, for me, as I found I could not feel much empathy or tension. I really appreciated the ending of this, however, and the last 70 or so pages were my favourite of the whole book. The intensity I found lacking in earlier segments was finally included and the ending was the one I was hoping for.
I still can not say I was super invested as many tense scenes were infused with jovial comments or sarcasm, which did not gel with the alternative emotions the characters should have been experiencing, but this did conclude on a more positive note, for me. View all 3 comments. May 02, Sh3lly grumpybookgrrrl marked it as wish-list Shelves: Going through my tbr shelf and trying to weed some stuff out.
This has a 3. Apparently, it's a pretty literal re-telling of the Disney cartoon for at least the first part of the book. Seeing as how Aladdin is one I haven't seen all that much, I'll still try this one out. Guess I won't be reading this anytime soon. Maybe if it ever gets to my library one day. View all 17 comments. My actual rating is 3. Because of how much I enjoyed reading it. Is it a masterpiece of literature? But do you know what it is? Because it has an insane amount of bad ratings and reviews. Most of the other reviews seem to feel like this about the book: It's certainly not going to appeal to everyone.
However, it is incredibly rare that I am on the side of liking something that everyone else seems to hate My actual rating is 3. However, it is incredibly rare that I am on the side of liking something that everyone else seems to hate. I'm usually on the other side of this fence. I'm usually the one hating the books everyone loves and feeling bad about it. Not to mention the fact that this is the kind of book that I should dislike.
It's not something I expected to like, certainly not as much as I do, and yet here we are. Because the first part of the book is basically the entire first part of the Disney movie, nearly word for word, and that seems to have been part of the issue for some people but, for me personally, I actually loved that. It gave me a feeling of comfort and put a big cheesy grin on my face. I liked that it gave it the feeling of 'hey, I know this story' to then be contrasted with the 'whole new world' not even sorry once the 'sliding doors' type moment occurs and takes the rest of the story in a different direction.
When the story changed, I was genuinely gripped. I wanted to see how things turned out, wanted to find out what would happen and it was such an enjoyable 'magic carpet' ride no, I will not stop. My favourite street rat was still being his charming, cheeky, witty self and my badass princess who won't take anyone's crap and stands up for what she believes in was still stomping all over the patriarchy, kicking ass and taking names.
The other familiar characters were all there and there were new characters who I really enjoyed. I loved the development of the dictatorship and I liked how poverty was explored through Jasmine having her eyes opened to it and the fact that we spent more of the story with the street rats rather than among the royals. The progression of Jafar and how he ruled was interesting. Seeing the way he gained trust and tricked people into thinking he was on their side only to then take everything away I mean, who does that remind you of?
Because overall, it just all worked for me and I really liked it. Aug 24, Selene rated it it was ok. I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I can't wait to start this book and hope that I enjoy it after all those low reviews! The first book in A Twisted Tale trilogy is a dark rendition of Aladdin. This story is about Jafar who steals a genie lamp. He uses his first two wishes to become sultan of Agrabah and the most powerful sorcerer in the world.
The citizens of Agr I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. The citizens of Agrabah live in fear of Jafar's final wish. Aladdin and Jasmine team together in a fight for freedom to unite the people of Agrabah in a rebellion which leads to a civil war Why are we rehashing Jasmine and Aladdin?! Why not take this opportunity to get a better look at Jafar's character rather than retell me a love story I already know. The tag line for this book was: If Disney didn't own the rights to this book it would be pure plagiarism. I don't know if I noticed this mostly because I rewatched the Aladdin movie in preparation for reading this book.
This was a really dull read with no depth or intensity which is unfortunate because the author had an opportunity to create something really wonderful. As some people have already pointed out this book felt like copyright and fanfiction, which just isn't my thing. I highly doubt I will continue with this series. This is nothing like the recreation of the Disney Classic I had in mind. Feb 09, Stephanie Bookfever rated it did not like it Shelves: I didn't like A Whole New World at all.
I'll even go so far as to say that it's one of the worst books I have read this year so far. It really pains me to say so but this book was really a disappointment. A huge part of this book was just like the movie. Maybe that isn't so bad but I was just so bored by it. Once the author started twisting the story it was less predictable but equally boring to me. The thing I disliked the most was the writing. It wasn't good at all.
It was way too colorless and lacked some kind of depth. The characters were colorless as well.
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Especially Aladdin and Jasmine. The conversations between them didn't feel natural and I felt myself not wanting to read about them at all. At this point I was more interested in reading about Jafar, to be honest. At least there was a little bit of excitement with him because he's so evil. Really, I didn't enjoy reading about any of the characters.
I guess it's a good concept, reimagining classic Disney stories but it could've been written better, I think, and without making the characters so flat and uninteresting. So yeah, this book wasn't the right one for me, per se. I do hope others will enjoy it more than I did but I wouldn't recommend it.
Apr 17, Frankie Lovely marked it as dnf. Feb 09, Mel Daily Prophecy marked it as to-read Shelves: Half of my interest is just jumping on the bandwagon. The other half is because of the series title. This is the book 10YO Hannah has been begging for. View all 5 comments. Feb 09, Alyssa rated it it was ok Shelves: September 1, Rating: This could have gone a lot better.
If you've seen the movie Aladdin , then you're set. This book isn't necessary at all, if you've watched the movie. And even if you haven't watched the movie This wasn't a good story, and it wasn't a good book based off the movie. Whatever it was, it wasn't great. Aladdin is a Street Rat, born and raised in the streets of Agrabah. One day, the princess decides to take a stroll in the market. Aladdin rescues her from getting her hands cut off. She tells him that she is running away from home, because her father is going to force her to marry someone.
Then Aladdin is whisked away to Jafar, who has him get the lamp from the cave in the desert, by trickery. Aladdin survives, Jafar gets the lamp, and makes two wishes - to be the sultan, and to be the most powerful sorcerer in the world.
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Together, Aladdin and Jasmine must rally the Street Rats and people of Agrabah in order to defeat Jafar and take back the city. I did actually finish this book, which is a plus. I'm not in the habit of DNF-ing, but still. This book wasn't so awful that even I couldn't finish it. It's really similar to the movie, which I guess could be a good thing or a bad thing. I'm looking at it as a bad thing, but hey, another reader out there might be delighted that there is a new publication of Aladdin in book form, with a slightly different spin, too!
What I Did Not Like: The writing style was VERY trivial - juvenile, as a friend of mine said. Too many modern phrases or attempts at modern phrases for my taste. This is supposed to be a fantasy novel, with magic and sultans and sorcerers and genies. Nowhere is this supposed to have even a hint of modern-day contemporary world-building or aspects or anything. And back to the writing in general - poor, at best.
I couldn't take the writing seriously, because it seemed choppy and almost conversational, but not a good kind of conversational. Like a conversational with someone that isn't telling the story well. It was like the author was trying too hard for this book to be fun and light and cute This book is so similar to the movie, I might as well have just popped the movie in and watched.
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But this book was way worse - the movie is amazing and cannot be touched, but this book doesn't come anywhere close to the movie. And separate the book from the movie - this book would still be painful, with the choppy, childish writing style, the poorly development characters, the sloppy romance. I'll get to that in a minute. I didn't feel like Jasmine or Aladdin grew very much, as characters. Jasmine, maybe, because she stopped being spoiled for about ten minutes so she could save the world.
The thing is, Braswell does a lot of telling, and not showing. The same goes with Aladdin's character development. I'm struggling to understand this. This book is supposed to be a Young Adult book, right?
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It seemed so poorly constructed, maybe for young kids, ages seven to ten or something. Logically, it doesn't make sense. The romance is so sloppy! So much insta-love going on! From the start, it's attraction at first sight, which is FINE. But the relationship does not develop at all. Braswell does a lot of telling us about the relationship, but not showing. I don't know how Aladdin and Jasmine grew to trust each other or even like each other.
Not good enough for me. Cookie cutter perfect ending! As one would probably expect. I feel like this book would have made a great Middle Grade novel. But not necessarily YA. Would I Recommend It: I wouldn't recommend this novel. Even if you love fantasy like me. Even if you liked Aladdin the movie like me. Or even if you have not seen the movie - just watch the movie, you don't need to read this book. This book is so unnecessary - it's not even a GOOD representation of movie. Or whatever it is supposed to be. I think it's generosity at this point, and the fact that I was mostly entertained while reading.
Notice I never said anything about boredom. I may read the next book in the series, especially the books are companion novels. There may be hope yet! This just proves that something is wrong with me. I can't even find a four or even a three star review in the sea of one and two stars.
I totally get why people hated this. Hell, I'd hate the fuck outa this if I read it last year. I'm trying not to be so picky and critical anymore. It's no fun picking out every fucking thing that bugs you while you read. I think what bugged most people was that for t After read: I thought I'd hate it too, but honestly it worked for me.
Could the author have gone in a different route? But she didn't and that's ok with me. I did have some problems with the book. The pacing towards the middle so soo slow. Towards the end it picks up a lot. I know in the movie Aladdin and Jasmine fall quickly but in the book it just irritated me. Insta love in books suck.
Movies I'm ok with Where the fuck was Iago?? I think he was in like one scene I don't think Jafar would have called someone "buddy".. I think what I liked most was how evil Jafar was in this and how dark the book is. I mean Jafar view spoiler [fucking kills the sultan. Yumm I will admit that I'm a tad bit disappointed that this didn't blow me away like I wanted it to. But I'm glad I didn't hate it like everyone else. My tip to anyone who wants to give this a go: Forget the negative reviews and go into this with a clear and positive mind.
Who knows, you might just enjoy it. Happy reading Before read: I fucking love Aladdin!!! Why is it that all the books I want to read don't come out till later in the year View all 7 comments. I hated the film. Absolutely hated Aladdin, the little thieving But I'll give this a chance. Twisting the story like the blurb promises? For a start, the first quarter of the story is exactly like that bloody film.
If I wanted to read fanfiction, I head on over to some fanfic site. This book just grated on me. I didn't like the tone, I didn't like the characters and I absolutely did not enjoy reading it. But I will give the other Twisted Tales books a go in future. I received a copy of this for free via NetGalley for review purposes. Jan 30, Colleen Houck added it Shelves: The beginning starts off in a very similar fashion to the film.
It was so close, it was like I was reading the screenplay, but then it veered sharply right after the Cave of Wonders. This is a much blacker, much more dangerous Jafar. If you thought he was creepy in the Disney movie you'd better prepare yourself. I liked seeing a more mature Aladdin and Jasmine but its also sad in a way. This book brings being a Street Rat into sharp focus and its not all singing and making buffoons of the soldie The beginning starts off in a very similar fashion to the film. This book brings being a Street Rat into sharp focus and its not all singing and making buffoons of the soldiers.
A very interesting adaptation. Jul 13, Cody rated it it was ok Shelves: So we're given a character role reversal in which Jafar is the first to summon the genie however the whole scenario leading up to this moment is virtually the same; Aladdin is tricked into retrieving the lamp by Jafar disguised as an old beggar which is located in a stone tiger cave in the desert. Jafar is pretty much still the evil power hungry villain so his first wish is to obviously become Sultan and rule all of Agrabah.
In all of his madness he also wants to be loved willingly by his people and his soon to be wife Princess Jasmine. We are still treated to some of Aladdins most loved characters such as Abu, the magic carpet and even Iago to some extent. This book was fast paced, had lots of action which left little room for an actual romance boo! I think it was the promise of unique difference and just 'more' which didn't come across to me that forced my rating down but otherwise it was an entertaining read. I will be keeping an eye for future releases in the Twisted Tales series as I love Disney movies and books, who doesn't?
Literary-ly Obsessed , Twitter This has the potential to be absolutely EPIC if it's done right! Please, please let it be done right. Mar 04, Sophia Sardothien rated it it was ok Shelves: Thank you Netgalley and Disney press for sending me this book in exchange of an honest review Personally I can't really get through this book The narration was a bit immature for me. Oct 10, Katie. I was so excited to start this book because I loved previous Disney novelisations I had read. This one was crap. It told a story that could have been amazing and twisted and shocking but instead it was just so incredibly lacklustre.
The characters were never really rounded out into believable people. The story was just this happened, then this, then this. The beginning was the best part as it followed the movie. T I was so excited to start this book because I loved previous Disney novelisations I had read.
This book had so much potential overall but it just ended up letting me down dramatically. I'm going to spend my time on better stuff than this. A Whole New World is basically a novelization of the animated Aladdin. If I want to watch Aladdin, I'll just watch Aladdin. I come to retellings for something new. I know, I know, Jafar's going to get the lamp first, and maybe something original will happen that. I can't vouch for that obviously.
What I can say is that, in the chapters I read, the characters are flatter than the animated characters on my tv. I get the fe Pages read: