| Title | : | Ever After High: Once Upon a Twist: Cerise and the Beast (Fairy Tale Retelling, #2) |
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| ISBN | : | 0316501921 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780316501927 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 106 |
| Publication | : | First published March 7, 2017 |
When Cerise Hood and Dexter Charming realize they're in the story of Beauty and the Beast, they both think it's a royal fairy fail. Cerise would rather run outside than stay in a castle, and Dexter is worried that he'll never escape his big brother's shadow. But when they discover that they'll need to make it to the end of the story to return to school, Cerise and Dex are determined to fit in-even if they're better off being themselves. Will this team find their fairy own hextraordinary way to a Happily Ever After?
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Ever After High: Once Upon a Twist: Cerise and the Beast (Fairy Tale Retelling, #2) Reviews
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Another "mixed up" fairy-tale with my favorite characters. In this book Cerise and Dexter fell into "Beauty and the Beast" story where they had to find the way back to Ever After High.
An easy reading for relaxing and enjoying Ever After High characters. -
As an early reading level chapter book it's ok. Your not going to get a bad message from the book. The fantasy slang is very annoying. It would probably be two stars if it didn't completely miss the point of the Fairytale Beauty and the Beast. It also has to misunderstand any other Fairytale to make the premise work. I remember why stuff like this and Monster High never really work for me. Even if we'd had this when I would have been the correct age demographic for it I don't think I'd have liked it. The 10th Kingdom is the only fantasy series I've seen that does The Big Bad Wolf gets a romance well, and even then it was weird. All I'm saying is that it breaks my brain to think that Little Red Riding Hood married the Big Bad Wolf. If you've read the original or seen the stage show of Into the Woods, then you know why this feels gross.
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The only reason I read this in the first place was because both of my favorite EAH characters are leads in this story, but the execution of this novella was not as good as what I expected... I probably should've lowered my expectations 💔 but it was still a great story book for kids! -
literally so good i love that the characters stayed true to themselves, and the dexven crumbs were DELICIOUS.
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In order to get Adora to sit down and read for more than five minutes I read this book while Adora read Rosabella and the Three Bears. It ended up being a fairly cute elementary level Ever After High novel that was surprisingly enjoyable for me as well. I've been forced to watch enough Ever After High on Netflix that I appreciated the mention of Daring being Rosabella's Beast in this book which the season of the show, Epic Winter, alluded to originally.
In this book it's his brother Dexter who plays the role of the beast and Cerise, daughter of Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf, who plays the role of Beauty. Which is cute because each suited the role of the other more. In the end it was a book about being comfortable in who you are.
Tomorrow we trade books and hopefully Adora retains enough of both to discuss them with me. All in all a book worthy of a night just reading next to my 7 year old daughter. -
Este es el segundo libro en la saga de historias de Once Upon a Twist, así que quiero creer que la razón por la cuál te mete directamente en materia sin dar explicaciones o, al final, conclusiones de cómo es que terminaron en este aprieto, es porque la información esta en el primer libro (y la conclusión estará en el quinto), sin embargo, no porque el libro sea una historia de varios capitulos significa que con un prologo de media página puedes justificar lo que está ocurriendo en tu libro.
Aunque, ese es otro problema, y el mayor de todos: este libro no tiene historia. A diferencia del resto de cuentos que manejan misterios, problemas, o de mínimo, te dejan ver que están escribiendo sus impresiones mientras que sucede una historia de la serie (cómo
Ever After High: Diary of an Evil Queen: A Guide to Living Evilly Ever After), en este caso, Cerise y Dexter se encuentran, se dicen "Somos la Bella y Bestia", y fin. Nada pasa.
Tan nada pasa, que la historia de Dexter (si es que se le puede llamar así), ocurre durante un sueño, ¡un sueño!, mientras que Cerise se va a jugar football (actividad en la que, de nuevo, nada pasa), Dexter se duerme y sueña. Pasa el día, y fin, vuelven a Ever After High.
Los personajes están estereotipados, Dexter no es santo de mi devoción, pero aquí nada más abre la boca para decir que nunca podrá ser cómo Daring. Lo sabemos, Dexter, siempre lo dices, no es necesario que lo digas quince veces en las primeras cuarenta páginas; y el resto de los personajes, solo salen en dos hojas, pero no presentan ningún pensamiento original, Blondie aparece con una cámara, tronando dedos para que su camarógrafo filme bien, Maddie pregunta por el té y Apple dice "que lindo tenías muchos vestidos, Cerise", y eso es todo.
Y, por si fuera poco, al final, Dexter sufre de amnesia al volver. Digo, no es que hayan pasado mucho, pero, ¿en serio? ¿Otro libro en donde sufren amnesia? Ya mejor pongan una línea al inicio del libro en donde se aclaré que lo que pasa en la historia no es canon para la serie, y ya, nos dejamos de usar amnesia a diestra y siniestra en estas historias, algo que da coraje, porque no permite que los personajes se desarrollen ni aprendan nada. Digo, en este no había nada que aprender, pero en
Un mundo maravillástico si es un sacrilegio.
En fin, mi plan era leer toda la serie de Once Upon a Twist, pero entre que es imposible conseguirlos (no encuentro el de Kitty, el que más me interesa, por ningún lado), y entre que este libro fue una total decepción (el primero que me topó así en EAH), ya me lo estoy reconsiderando. -
I wish that I had been able to read the first book in the series before this. But these stories are hard to come by. Which tells me that people do not like to donate these stories after they are read! They are that good.
I like how there is a clear lesson to be learned. Cerise and Dexter both learn, that it is important, to learn to be the best true selves they can be!
"I think you're right," said Cerise. "We are pretty great when we're just ourselves. I say we stop trying to be Beauty and the Beast, and just be Cerise ande Dexter."
I hope to find the others in this series to read. Unfortunately, they are not in my library district.. so I will have to hope I can find them in a thrift store. -
I enjoyed this book. This series is a lot different than the other books about Ever After High but they are still pretty good. I enjoyed reading about Cerise and Dexter in the story of Beauty and the Beast but I think it could have been done a little better. For one it still bothers me that the authors decided to change Daring's destiny and that was a huge distraction from this storyline. Also I didn't like the way this story ended with Dexter. The part with Raven was great but the rest of the ending with Dexter was sad as I wish it had ended a little differently. Overall I still enjoyed this book but I think it could have been even better with a few changes.
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3.5...
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2.5 I think the story was kind of boring for me
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Really cute read. The message within was great. I will reread in the future.
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Cute book
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I have always been a fan of Everafter High!
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Turns out at the end of the story, Dexter wont remember the little bad secret Cerise has.
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This one was cute, too.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of putting Dexter Charming into the Beauty nad the Beast fairy tale. Though I'd make him the Beauty (which he kind of was, given his love for books and his kindness). Anyway it was nice to see Dexter teaching Cerise and vice versa.
There are mentions of Dexter being smart and able to fix things like lamps and making a dress (well, hood, but still). I'm glad the author didn't forget the nerdy side of this prince in order to remain on the fact he's shy.
I'm a bit sorry there was no rose-related time limit. You know a 'you have to finish this story before the last petal falls' kind of thing.
I wonder how would furry Beast!Raven look like. Such a shame the EAH book don't have any illustrations. -
Pretty cute i liked it :)
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It was a quick read only 106 pages. Ment for a much younger audience. But I am a sucker for a fairy tale even at my age. lol Loved this version of beauty and the beast even tho the characters involved wasn't suppose to be part of this tale. If you want to know what I mean read the blurb.
