What if instead of a sun drop flower rapunzel mom is given a moon drop flower?
Instead of healing properties rapunzel hair has the power to kill.
All the original characters are here with a couple new

I read this and my daughter read this. It was very entertaining, I would definitely recommend it to others. So fun!

I have a few books from this series on my kindle but hadn’t gotten around to reading them. I’m so glad this was my first one. The story was close enough to Tangled that I could envision the characters I love so much yet it was different enough to capture my attention. The story is fun and adventurous and gives a new angle to the story. The characters were amazing and I really enjoyed them all, even nasty Gothel. I think my favourite part of the book though was the author’s notes where she shares her inspiration for part of the story. It was a powerful story of survival and how much hair can change an outlook.
I bought a few more of these books to add to my collection & I can’t wait to read them.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the chance to read this book.

This was a really cool take on Tangled. I felt like this story went a bit more in depth about the power of loyalty and how kindness can earn that level of loyalty.

The beginning of this novel was a bit slow for me. I had a really hard time getting into it at first and it took me way longer than it should have to finish it. However the last third really made up for it. Rapunzel's relationship with Flynn developed in a sweeter way than in the movie, and it felt deeper. The friendships in here were fantastic and wholesome. Overall, once I got past the slow bit in the front I really enjoyed this. I would pick up another "Twisted Tale" in a heartbeat.

I wasn't really sure how this story could be remade, but this was beyond my wildest imagination. As a result, this held my attention from start to finish. In fact, I read this book in one sitting.

We follow the story of Rapunzel; however, instead of her healing golden hair, she has silvery hair with the power of death... or so she's been told. Gothel still plays a prominent role of a liar in this book, and it's refreshing that her conniving, manipulative ways did not change in the story. Furthermore, we get to meet Gina and her witty banter with Flynn Rider. All of the elements of the original "Tangled" storyline are present with new characters, such as Countess Bathory, Treggsby, and the men from the Snuggly Duckling.

The story moves quickly, as there is a lot of action within the book. There are enough twists and turns to differentiate from the original story and maintain the reader's attention. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the book.

The premise was promising but it failed to deliver. Too much was different with no real build up to how we got there. The interjection of the "real world" in the hospital was jarring and unnecessary and nearly made the book unreadable. I liked the addition of the third person but it should have been Cassandra from the television show. Over all, a big disappointment.

Title: What Once Was Mine
Author: Liz Braswell
Pub. Date: September 7, 2021
Rating: 3

I guess I just wanted the feeling, and the magic Tangle gives me, and I didn’t get it from this book. It was long, the formatting kept pulling me out of the story, and too much real history was included. It stopped feeling like a magical fantasy adventure, and now that I think of it, more like Ever After.
And Ever After isn’t a bad movie – in fact, I love it. But the vibes are very different, and I don’t think Tangled is conducive to it.
The formatting is reminiscent of the Princess Bride, the feeling was Ever After and the characters felt like a mix of Tangled and Tangled: Ever After. It was a weird mix, where the magic got lost in the everything else-ness of the book, and I don’t think it worked.

Title: What Once Was Mine
Author: Liz Braswell
Pub. Date: September 7, 2021
Rating: 3

This will be a short spoiler free review. Thank you to NetGalley and Disney-Hyperion for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest review. I’m just kind of “meh” about this book. It wasn’t bad, but really didn’t entice me as much as I expected it to. I ended up listening to the second half of this book on Audible and that made the book go by faster and mildly more interesting. The narrator was pretty good at voicing the characters and making them feel more real. But still, overall, wasn’t that impressed or hooked.

I think I might say this every time I read one of these Twisted Tales books – but they’re really not “twisted”. I guess this one was the most “twisted” in the sense that the story is kind of spun around and flipped on its head, but it lost the magic that is Tangled.

I can’t explain what exactly, but everything I love about Tangled – the magic of it – was lost in this book. Even the formatting was off-putting. I know the formatting and the narrative outside of the Tangled retelling is sentimental to the author, very personal, but I constantly pulled me from the story.

I also wasn’t a fan of how much history was included in the book. I grew bored.

Overall, not a terrible book, but didn't meet my expectations unfortunately.

my biggest issue with this book was that it was kind of a mess. like, i think it was just such a mess and i honestly really hated this so much. like, i feel like it was just kind of a mess that they had so much happening in here and that they had pretty much everything from all of the books in here and threw it all together. and i feel like this twisted tale just didn't work and i feel like this was nothing like the original disney movie. and i feel like how this story was different, just didn't work at all.

and i feel like the biggest issue with this book is the writing, i think. like, i feel like it is something a lot of people can like, and that they can really like if they wanted it. but i feel like everything that she says is just glorifying it all, and she uses way to many words in something that could have been said in five words, is now said in like 20, which doesn't work and is insane. and then there is all of these comparisons, that just don't work at all. and i feel like it was something that just didn't work in the long run.

like, most of this book rapunzel is just wanting to leave and wanting to get out of the tower, which i never understand why she just didn't run since mother gothel was never there. and i feel like she just drew on the walls and that they were just trying to get her become this witch and trying to get all of this in here. and then having flynn become this side character with dialogue, but still not even that much, was just kind of annoying. since, he is a stable character in the movie, but then in here he was just this cardboard cut out, which annoyed the life of me.

i will say though, i did like that they villainized gothel. like, i feel like they could have totally made it look like she came out on top, with taking in this girl that is this witch, could have made her look so much better. but, i liked that they stuck to her being the villain and that they did talk about how mean gothel was to rapunzel and that she was manipulative and that she messed with her mind. and that she was not this good person.

A beautiful retelling, full of the same excitement as the disney movie!

It was familiar enough to enjoy its similarities, and different enough for the new ideas to keep me compelled to read it.

Had the same disney magic as the film, with a touch of extra darkness to make it more exciting as a novel!

Thank you to Netgalley and publishers for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review!

I like a good alternate history tale, and I especially appreciated the retelling of one of my favorite Disney princesses!

This was such a fun story! Disney has really done an amazing job with the twisted tales retellings. I especially enjoy Braswell's retellings. I think she has a fun take on where the story could go and poses some really interesting questions that draw the reader into the story. I cannot wait to read more of the retellings in this series/collection.

Another great addition to the Twisted Tales series. In this series we see what would happen if Rapunzel's mom had drank a different flower which gave her very different and much darker powers. A great read where I definitely shed some tears! Can't wait to read more in this series.
Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for providing me with an arc for an honest review!

I don't usually read and review youth titles but this one caught my eye. It was an interesting alternative telling of the Rapunzel (Tangled) story and I enjoyed it. The characters are similar to those in the movie but slightly different given the premise of the book. All in all a fun read and I would recommend it to anyone interested in alternative versions of the Disney fairytales.

I really enjoyed this book. I loved howLiz Braswell made a twist on Tangled that was unlike anythig else I’ve ever read. This is probably one of my favorite Twisted tales!

On this episode of Everything is Canon, Steve is talking to authors Liz Braswell and Jen Calonita all about their new Disney books, A Twisted Tale: What Once Was Mine and Lost Legends: The Rise of Flynn Rider respectively.

The 12th book in the Twisted Tales series, What Once Was Mine asks the very simple question, what if Rapunzel’s mother drank a potion from the wrong flower? So that instead of healing properties, Rapunzel’s hair could possibly kill you with just simply by touching it? As for Jen’s book, The Rise of Flynn Rider, she kicks off this new Lost Legends middle grade series with adventure and excitement, giving us the origin story for perhaps Disney’s most loveable roguish hero, Flynn Rider, plus a few other notables you’ll surely recognize.

The three of them talk about the Twisted Tales series and the run that it’s having, what a great year it’s been for the Twisted Sister team, what exactly is Lost Legends, their preferred Rapunzel source material, lots of Flynn Rider, and much, much more.

For the full interview, click the link below...

https://www.cinelinx.com/off-beat/shows/everything-is-canon-flynn-rider-rapunzel-special/

Overall I think this is a good addition to the twisted tales series. Not my favorite and I had a hard time getting into it but I ended up enjoying it in the end. Definitely worth the read especially if you like Rapunzel.

First, I'd like to thank Netgalley and Liz Braswell for sending me an eARC for an honest review. I was truly amazed by this retelling of Rapunzel from Tangled and I think if you all read it as well, you'll enjoy it so much.

What Once Was Mine was unique because it was a story told as a story. A brother is narrating the story for his little sister who has cancer. Reading the Author's note at the end made me love the book even more, considering that this story was inspired by Liz's own experience with her sister.

There was so much more magic and detail involved in the story that made me like it more than Tangled. The idea of the Moondrop Flower was genius. It was a much more heartbreaking story than the original. It pulled at my attention and wouldn't let go. At first I didn't think that Pascal and Maximus were going to be in the book, but Liz completely surprised me with how she incorporated them. I loved all the characters. Flynn was adorable. Gina is not an original character but it was so much better with her there. There are new and old villains. The old villains had more backstory which was very intriguing.

The story was really brought together and seemed more believable with all of the historical mentions and the very real Countess Bathory being one of the villains. Countess Bathory is a crazy murderer from the 1600s who liked killing and torturing her female servants.

Over all, such an amazing book. I can't wait to read more from Liz Braswell Thank you for putting your imagination onto paper.

I've only read a couple of the twisted tales series, but this one just didn't catch me. I don't know if it was harder since there is the tangled show out there as well. I just felt the story moved so slowly, there were too many pauses to over explain something, or to focus on Rapunzel's wonder of something new. I also didn't get the point of the framing story of the brother retelling the story, no other twisted tale had this outer story to explain the change. The use of it was clunky and added more unnecessary detail to make the story longer. Overall it was an okay story but just so long and drawn out for no reason. I will still recommend this to patron as I'm sure younger readers may not be as annoyed by random horse descriptions.

This may be one of my favorites in the entire series. Rapunzel may not be one of my favorite Disney properties, but this book just made me fall in love. It was so different from the other books, and had a very good spin to the movie. The fact I got teary eyed is something because I rarely cry over books. Definitely one I’d recommend to any Disney fan or fan of the Twisted Tales.