Braswell uses perfect words to paint a brilliantly vibrant picture of Agrabah, building on the base from the film and adding lots more, thus producing a well-researched backdrop to her tale. This is particularly including the Quarter of the Street Rats: an area of Agrabah we never get to explore in the films. To start with, the descriptions in the narrative are gorgeous. Up until that point, we get all the same scenes, all the same dialogue, except built upon with more detail. Aladdin does find the lamp, and it is only once this happens do things start to go awry. In fact, the tagline on the cover of the book “ What if Aladdin had never found the lamp?” is wildly misleading. The first six chapters are a mirror re-telling of the classic Disney movie. Was it shining, shimmering, splendid? Read on.

This triggers the rise of a terrifying dictatorship, prompting a revolution on the streets of Agrabah lead by slick army of Street Rats.ĭid it show me the world? Most definitely. For reviewing purposes, I will be reading the full series in chronological order of publication, and I will be completely honest and spoiler-free in letting you know what I thought!Ī Whole New World by Liz Braswell follows an alternate plotline of what would have happened if, at the mouth of the Cave of Wonders, Aladdin had passed the magic lamp to Jafar, granting him the power of the Genie… and the reign of Agrabah. Each of the novels is stand-alone, meaning you can read whichever stories intrigue you the most in whichever order you feel like.

A Whole New World is the first book in the Twisted Tales series. At the time of writing, the series consists of five titles published over the past four years, with the sixth due in April 2019.

A twisted tale a whole new world