I Read a Little Mermaid Retelling That Doesn't Understand the Movie | areadersworld
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Lesbihonest. You did this video just to recommend To Kill a Kingdom to everyone. Change my mind 💅💅💅
I’m not gonna because you’re probably right
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Well it worked because now I wanna read it ASAP lol
@@juliarhapsody have you read the surface breaks it's my favorite little mermaid retelling
Here’s the thing I would but I am not good at anything
The fact that Ariel becomes the queen pissed me off so much. Attina was such a good sister and daughter. She always tried to keep the sisters in check and out of trouble she was afraid to let her father down and she was the oldest and the smartest. But now lets make a woman who doesn't even like this place that much a queen what's stopping us.
THAT'S WHAT IM SAYING
Starkid's Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier did it better.
Yesss
God love you Julia. Always giving us the information we need.
I’m here for the reviews!! 💜💜 beauty and the beast is where it’s at!! “They end up being stupid idiots” more Max rep!! Editing Julia making points!! 💜💜 when the sequel says otherwise!! THANK YOUUU that’s why I was frustrated with frozen 2 ...
literally when i talked about frozen 2, all I could think about was that video where you were in your car after getting your wisdom teeth out haha
How are you doing with all the things happening now just curious?
This review has made me want to get this book more than ever. I don't mind retellings shaking things up. It seems from your review, execution of new material was done poorly. So it didn't explain why the changes existed. That's just my opinion though. I have DNF'd the Conceal, Don't feel book for the time being. Not to bring any spoilers but it just feels like 'white girl probs, but tragic-ish.'
MatchesMalone i'm reading the tyrants tomb
Thet needed to pad the word count
i literally *l o v e* PMI. I wonder which one you were watching?
I was watching the Greatest Showman one
areadersworld I love that one
I think these are interesting in a 'published AU fanfic' kinda way. I've read the Frozen one and I have the BatB one but haven't read it yet.
I actually like the different take in the Frozen one. Instead of erasing Anna's memories of Elsa's magic, they erase both girls' memories of each other and they send Anna off to live in a little village with their mom's friend(?). It's interesting to see how the events of the movie play out like this.
And it's kinda obvious that it was written before Frozen 2 also.
I liked the batb one, but it was a bit of a stretch most the time.
THANK YOU! This is literally *exactly* how I felt about this book. I don't believe the author really likes The Little Mermaid tbhhh lol. Like, yes, Ariel made dumb decisions but you don't have to bring it up on EVERY. SINGLE. PAGE. (especially when your version of the characters are even more foolish) *sighs* Anyway, great review 👌
she was more stupid and i don't know how you can't make her more stupid
Honestly, by the way you described it, this reads like a fanfic made by someone who hated the Disney movie. Everyone is so out of character in this. It's also super clinical, which makes the tone clash with the original in a bad way. That's ashamed, because I would've love to see a story about what if Ursula got the trident and became empress of the sea. (As a side note, I disagree with you about the Greek Mythology. Atlantica is an analog for Atlantis and Trident was a Greek god, so the ties make sense.)
Okay, I just checked and most of the Twisted Tales are written by one author, but the Frozen one is a different author sooooooo...
The Frozen and Mulan book are rewritten by two different authors but the whole series is the same
I personally read the Anna and Elsa one, Conceal Don't Feel. I read it as research for Middle Elsa, the character I was playing in Frozen, my school musical that was cancelled (thanks corona). I actually really enjoyed the book. I thought it was a different way to tell the tale of Frozen. Obviously, it wasn't the greatest book of all time, but I enjoyed reading it, and that's what matters.
Poseidon must be angry. This book is giving his kingdom a bad name 🔱
The way u talk about this type of books reminds me when i was in middle school and wanted to read ANYTHING to do with werewolves, so I read all of twilight (I dont regret all of it), and also a bunch of other teen romance stories that unluckily enough had the misfortune of luring me in with the aspect o seeing a Goddamn wolfman.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST ONE. It's called As Old As Time. It's my favorite. Some in the series aren't good but the BATB one is the best 10/10 reccomend
I hate when anyone says that ariel only wanted to go up to the human world cause she only wanted a man, she wanted to explore the human world and along the way she found someone she loved.
also to kill kingdom is the best little mermaid retelling I have ever read!!!
Lol. This reminds of that essay I never got to write except on the topic of female agency in the fairytale and the Disney movie. I was going to argue the fairytale did it better since all she wanted was an immortal soul and the boy was really just a stepping stone compared to how the Disney version had that scene with Triton being all patriarchal like 'yep, this was my idea'... (but then a strike happened so I never wrote it or gotten beyond the bare outline). If you want to read a reverse!little mermaid then there's the Fisherman and His Soul by Oscar Wild ( though it's seen more as an allegory for homosexuality so not exactly similar to Disney's vision of the Little Mermaid).
Edit: I'm trying to find the version I watched with my mom once, spoiler: she dies in that one (someone really should have warned me as a kid). Instead, I found the 1960 Russian animated adaptation and this charming quote in the opening monologue by a fish: "Love doesn't exist, but mermaids do", lol.
Edit 2: someone told me it's the 1976 Czech version called Malá Morská Víla, thank you internet for allowing me to relive childhood nostalgia. :)
Dana I think I watched that as a kid, if its a part of a series and the intro is a man on a bisycle trying to get to some kids hes going to babysit, and then it turnes animatd it is, if not you mest be reall confused by this
@@anna4951 Yeah, lol, a bit confused. The few things I remember about it is:
- it was live-action (which made it weird given how they filmed it)
- 'underwater' was represented as a blue-ish landscape (they didn't swim around just walked around and we kind of pretend they are underwater)
- the branch-like hair with cobwebs (I think they were going for a vegetation-like hair)
- the Little Mermaid's mom was turned into a statue because the human didn't love her (which made me feel bad for the father, like ouch)
- I remember this one scene where they are on the ship, and she has to make the choice and all her relatives are waiting near the cliff/rocks for her to do the deed only for her to jump overboard (or at least I think she did because she turned to foam and then the sun was shining even though there was like a short before that).
It was weird the stuff I paid attention too. I watched it in Russian so I didn't catch everything but I knew enough to understand what was happening.
Dana the one i wached was animated so not the same, but it soundes cinda cool
@@anna4951 just an update, someone told me it was the 1976 one, and I found it, it's called Malá Morská Víla in Czech, if you wanted to watch it too. The animated one sounds cool too, if you would send the name and year, soon I'll have plenty of time to marathon fairytales, lol.
As a kid I had a book with a bunch if original fairitales.
Including the little mermaid.
Why did I have this book? It was 100% not for kids.
Like... every step felt like she was stepping on knives, but she still danced with him the whole night.
And then she killed herself in the end.
I was 8.
Who let me read this?
I love Max his the best
When you try to boost your word count so instead of just saying 'land' or 'sea' you say 'the dry world' and 'the land under the sea' 😂
Hey can someone please recommend me a book to read that will be up to sync with upcoming videos? I really like these reviews and i would like to be able to contribute something. Im a little late for "The Tyrants Tomb" RR, . Thanks
I read the Aladdin one two years back because it said "what if Aladdin never found the lamp?" which I thought sounded pretty interesting...
Was it good?
@@Julia-oo8ii Yeah, pretty good. It was better than what the Little Mermaid one sounded like
Nuny was it Twisted?
@@anna4951
Yes
It expanded in the world a lot better, but it ended really anticlimactically. Not to mention, the problem with many of these books is that the original movies literally built their characters around the arc they would go through in the movie.
Well, I laughed so hard at the part that we're only here for the Percy Jackson parts that I had to suscribe. I discovered your channel two days ago, I believe? And I love all your content (but I really adore the percy jackson videos!).
I think the reason the ending was like that is because, if Ursula just married Eric it would be to much file the original farytale. But it also would not because in that Eric marries another girl, and Ariel just turns to seefoam.
i have a couple of liz braswell’s books and i also have the frozen twisted tale, which is written by a different author. i’m not the biggest fan of liz’s writing style tbh
Reminds me of Cinderella 3 a twist in time. That movie was "what if the stepmother got the magic wand and made the prince think the step sister was the girl he was looking for"
I’ve read the first four books before this book, and enjoyed those books. Reflection was a really fast one to read. I’ve been looking forward to this one since I love the Little Mermaid, so I’m intrigued after everything you said.
i've heard good things about reflection so I might hope on to it. Maybe read it for yourself to see that maybe you'll like it better
In the original little mermaid story....the prince marries another girl and mermaid fails and dissolved into sea foam
Yup,Grimm fairy tales and Greek myths are so warm and fuzzy...
Hey I love your channel but I'm sorry that goes to Aladin. Robin Williams is a GOD!!! He mprovised that entire role
👁️👄👁️didn't even read but I'm so into it
Have you read the series "Keeper Of The Lost Cities? it's really good!
Yes it is! Awesome!
I really liked the once upon a dream twisted tale
I really want to read these books, but now I’m hesitant should I still try them?
Yes! I personally think they are amazing. That might just be me, but their awesome books! As old as time was the greatest!
Broadway Bookworm ok great! I’ll try them.
Maddie Grace yeah I really enjoyed the once upon a dream one
Editing Julia. That's what happend in the original Little Mermaid. Ariel lost.
Can't tell if those uses of "let's dive into this book" were an intentional pun or not but I liked it.
I feel like I've heard of this series but didn't actually know what they were about, the Beauty and the Best one sounds kind of interesting, but I guess I'm just tired of people trying to make things 'edgy or dark' all the time to try and 'make them more interesting', which works when done well but unfortunately most of the times it's not done well and it's like "THIS is the fanfic that got published over some of the much better ones out there"
I have only rea the Mulan one and it's very good! It explores her relationship with Shang and it dives more in the ancestors aspect of the story.
I haven’t even watched this video and I’m pretty sure you’re not going to have super positive things to say about this book... I haven’t read it specifically, but I’ve read the first three in the series and they were so inconsistent and cringey.
Much different from the movie, but not so much from the original story..?
I read this too and I preferred the Aladdin one. I liked the political intrigue.
the only twisted tale i liked was the cinderella and the sleeping beauty one
0:25 I come here for YOU!
Max is my second favorite Disney animal/character (my favorite is Sven )
“ok have fun *YEETS*”
I read the first two twisted (Aladdin and Sleeping Beauty) and liked them. I did not read Mulan and B&B because the ideas sounded really dumb and out of nowhere
This just makes me sad, hearing that this person that wrote this book turned these characters into something they are not. Ariel and Eric aren't stupid, Ursula wants to take over the sea, not land. Ariel wants to go up to the surface because it was her DREAM to be a human. She didn't just go up to the surface just for a boy. In The Little Mermaid, Ariel had a dream and was willing to do anything to make her dream come true. Eric was her PUSH into making Ariel actually try to make her dream come true.
The Little Mermaid is about a mermaid who has a dream, but people thinks it's about a mermaid lusting for a human boy and that pisses me off so much because they are missing the whole message the movie is trying to say and I feel like I'm the only one who smart enough to catch the message of the story of The Little Mermaid.
The story of The Little Mermaid is such a beautiful story about a mermaid fulfilling her dream of being a human.
Ariel was already had a collection of human things in a cave, where she sung a whole song "Part of Your World", but it's more like "Part of That World" since she sung this before meeting and saving Eric. (In the song, if you listen to it closely she says "part of THAT world" never "part of your world") After she saved Eric and had a crush, she did was any normal girl did when they had a crush. Then She had that argument with her dad, and he destroyed her whole collection of human objects so after he left and Ursula's eels (I have what their names are) took this chance and tell Ariel about Ursula and so does what some teenagers do when their parents don't let them do something and out of rebellion and that push she got from Eric earlier in the movie she went with the eels to Ursula to fulfill her dream of becoming a human and exploring land, and on the side possibly try to get with her crush, not knowing that she's putting herself, her family and maybe her crush in danger. All she wanted was to be a human and explore land. And then at the end she got her dream, getting more time to explore and alongside that, she gets to be with her crush, Eric.
In the story, Eric has two roles in the story:
One: Be the love interest.
And Two: Be Ariel's push to actually fulfill her dream.
Also, let's talk about Part of Your World because I feel like this might be a part of the reason why people get so confused on why Ariel wants to go to the surface.
This song should actually be called is "Part of That World" because in the song she never said "your" in Part of That World, calling the humans "people" and she sings it to both herself and Flounder who are both sea creatures and it doesn't make sense if she said "your" while singing to herself and Flounder because they aren't from the surface.
While the song she sings to Eric after saving him should be called "Part of Your World" Because she is saying "your" and is singing to Eric so it would make sense if she says "your" in that song because she's singing to Eric who is a human and from land.
This is like the whole "Belle fell in love with her kidnapper" thing. No. She. Didn't. Belle never fell in love with Beast until the very end of the movie. When Belle was held prisoner by Beast, she didn't like him until he started to be more nicer and the two made a friendship with each other. Beast may have fallen in love with her, but she never did with him. Beast was friend zoned for the whole middle part of the movie. then Beast let her go, breaking off the whole "you are my prisoner" thing because he wants her to be happy, even though the curse might kill him or whatever the curse does when the last petal falls. So after he let her go, Belle was no longer his prisoner and was free. At that mob scene, she literally says "he's my friend" and she went back to warn Beast (who was her friend) about the mob that was going to kill him. And then when Beast faced off Gaston and then after Gaston died and Beast was dying that's when Belle fell in loved with him.
Ariel dreamed of going up to the surface and Belle friend zoned Beast until the very end of the movie.
Now in this book, that writer should have made Ursula the Queen of The Sea while forcing Voiceless Ariel to be her servant and with the sisters straight up putting them in prison or turn them into those weird plant things in her house and have Ariel try to make a plan to escape Ursula's grip, and then try to save the sea when she does escape. While Eric could either still be under Ursula's spell or she could make him and everyone forget that everything that happened, forget about Ariel, the wedding and all of that and Eric wouldn't be under Ursula's spell, but Eric feels like something is wrong with him, he doesn't know what, but has dreams of a girl because Ursula's magic can't change dreams and by the start of the story, he goes to try to find this girl to see if she can get rid of this feeling that something is wrong. And then Ariel and Eric run into each other and then Ursula realizes Ariel's gone and has the whole kingdom looking for her. Ariel and Eric become friends again and Ariel tries to help Eric assuming she probably has magic of her own (but it would be a lot weaker then her father's magic?) but it doesn't work and the two work together to defeat Ursula after finding out both their problems. And then at the end, when Ursula's dead, Ariel get her voice back and her freedom and Eric gets his memories back. And then Ariel's oldest sister inherits The Late Sea King's trident and makes Ariel into a human and she can be a human and be with Eric.
Well obviously this would need to take more then an hour or so to plan a whole book with this path. I just came up with this under like an hour, but I feel like this would be more appropriate and canon to The Little Mermaid, Ursula rules the sea, Ariel belongs to Ursula and Eric is not under Ursula's spell (because she does not care about him, she was just using him to make Ariel fail the deal she made with Ursula), but basically erased his memory of Ariel and both his and the crowd's memory of the wedding. But still make him a part of the story by him dreaming of a girl (Ariel) and feeling like something is wrong with him that will eventually lead him into finding Ariel again and then the two like in the movie will work together to kill Ursula in the end.
Oh my stars, this comment is long, I didn't mean for that. I'm sorry.
Are these books Disney property
Yep
So I guess I'll read this, but idk.... I mean, I like how more Disney books/movies r now going from the villian's perspectives. Like that needs to be done MORE in my opinion. But idk. I mean, I don't like change
I actually really loved this book. However, that’s mostly because I saw it more as it’s own thing and not as an exact Little Mermaid retelling. Which probably made me like the book more than I was probably suppose to? Take of it what you will ig
I watch all your reviews! You have amazing insight on the books you read - Keep it up !!
I did read the book and I enjoyed some aspects of it but there where a few scenes that I just felt uncomfortable reading along with all the points you made. I did love the idea that Ariels hair is pulled back in a beautiful thick braid with little shells and starfish on it. I liked it so much I drew it! But overall the book was fine. I liked it more than the Beauty and the Beast one and the Mulan one.
You read my mind, I totally want to read this. I'm excited to read this. Great job as always.
"Your all just here for percy Jackson content." Yeah. Ngl.
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i liked the book but i do agree that a lot of elements were inserted just for the plot lol
I agree with you on Beauty and the Beast
Loved the video ❤
the frozen one is amazing
HEY DAWGS!!!!
i clicked on this only because i read this book and loved it so now i want to see what u have to say.
haha so i finished watching the video and i agree now. haven’t read it in a while but you’ve jogged my memory so yea. also it mentions the mythology because the time period is around ancient rome.
Great video
Hello 👋🏻, I've found your channel yesterday and watched some videos and I have to say that I am really like your content, I think you deserve my sub (I don't speak English as a first language, sorry if it's bad, 🇩🇪 )
Idk if u already have, if u have please let me know, but do enders game please
oh i read that book a while ago. i didn't really like it because i didn't find it interesting at all until at least half way through the book
Yup that's true. We're only here for the Percy Jackson shit
in the real story of the little mermaid by the Grimm brothers the little mermaid dies
Lol. You mean Hans Christian Anderson right?
@@Heres_To_Music both authors rote interpretations of the story.
@@carolinejewson5473 wait, really? What's its number in the collection? It didn't come up in class so I didn't know. I've been trying to read the entire collection but I've only gotten to number 182 so far. But are you sure you're not confusing it with the selkie and shapeshifter stories (like stories 1, 25, 65, 108)?
@@Heres_To_Music I don't even know were to begin with you at this point
@@carolinejewson5473 ? ... All I'm asking is the official designated number of the story in the collection you are talking about, my translation has the unpublished works so I should be able to find it. But Anderson wrote THE Little Mermaid, that is the one where she died. So I just want to read the Brothers Grim version that you are talking about.
I have to agree that this isn’t the best twisted tales book. But I’d recommend the other ones