The Exploding Bookshelf

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[chaossmith2]

A “What If…?” Series but with classic animated Disney movies

I got some

- What if Jasmine got the lamp?

- What if Mulan’s father had gone to fight in the war?

- What if Elsa and Anna both had magic powers?

- What if Nala ran the kingdom in Simba’s place?

[darkmagickingdom]

Hi I love this concept

- What if Hades raised Hercules

- What if Jim Hawkins became a pirate

- What if Eric became a merman (specifically if he was the one who made the deal with Ursula instead of Ariel)

- What if Prince Phillip was the one to get cursed

- What if the villains won

- What if Belle became a beast

- What if Mim taught Arthur

- What if Tiana made a deal with Facilier

- What if the dwarves raised Snow White

[elmofongold-deactivated20250823]

hi. yes. there is a book series like this. the book series is called A Twisted Tale and each book asks a “what if...?” question for a different fairy tale.

https://books.disney.com/character-series/a-twisted-tale/

[twinklecupcake]

idk if they're good. i just know they exist.

Since there’s different authors and different ‘what if’s, they can be hit or miss. For instance, Conceal, Don’t Feel has a really neat What If... concept... but unfortunately, after a certain point it feels close to a retread of the movie.  On the flipside, Reflection is supposed to be really good, like it has some of the best reviews, and I honestly loved So This Is Love and Go the Distance. 

A book for The Princess and the Frog comes out next winter, and I’m excited to see the twist here.

[theexplodingbookshelf]

Hi, ive read/own most of these and my first and favorite was "Once Upon A Dream"

in terms of the authors of them, i've been iffy on the ones by Jen Calontia, but i only got a quarter of the way into "Mirror, Mirror" and haven't started any of the others, though i have "Conceal, Don't Feel" to read once I get to it. Im honestly slightly upset with how it went with mirror mirror but i was never a big fan of snow white which probably played into a bias. Ive really loved her "Fairy Tale Reform School" series so i had pretty high hopes going into it.

"Reflection" was extremely good, ive read it at least twice and really enjoyed the overall character arc within it

I really enjoyed "Straight on Till Morning" and "Part of Your World" and both of them are almost twice the size of most of the others

I honestly have nothing but respect and praises for Liz Braswell, who has done an incredible job writing a good chunk of these and rather quickly and i really want to get my hands on "What Once Was Mine" since i know she's probably done an incredible job on it, especially with how she managed to create a character out of thin air for Aurora that i related to an extreme amount (but im also biased to like that one since i was named after that princess and it was my first one)

[bookbibook]

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