Line #10 YMMV/ATaleOf


1	* AngstWhatAngst: Snow White neither mourns, nor even seems phased by, the death of her step-mother. This is discussed, with Snow saying that to her the evil Queen died years ago alongside her father. Future books explore Snow's mentality and subvert this. Snow is traumatized by the events of her past, but she tries her best to move on and focus on good things.
2	* BrokenBase:
3	** This book series, pretty much like its sister series "Literature/ATwistedTale", has its fair share of both fans and detractors. People enjoy the books for giving considerable depth to some of the villains ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and the Beast]]), analyzing their characters and giving some rather interesting twists to some scenes from the original movies. Meanwhile, people dislike them for feeling that it doesn't fully commit to the PerspectiveFlip aspect, as well as the fact that they feel that it portrays the Villains [[DracoInleatherPants in a way too sympathetic light]], when it doesn't go [[RonTheDeathEater the other way around]] with preestablished heroic characters. Those feeling charitable will simply say that the series is [[SoOkayItsAverage decent but not neccessarily great]], feeling that both fans and haters have their points.
4	** The subplots involving Princess Tulip Morningstar and The Odd Sisters. It's either a great way to enhance the stories and add more worldbuilding or they [[SpotlightStealingSquad take too much focus away]] from the main stories.
5	* ContinuityLockout: The series seems like it would be full of stand-alone books, but in reality it contains an interconnected story with many {{Call Back}}s and {{Continuity Nod}}s. It's a ''must'' that you read them in order or else you'll be confused by who all the characters are.
6	* EsotericHappyEnding: The HappilyEverAfter ending of ''The Beast Within'' becomes this when one wonders what will happen if/when Belle finds out what the Prince did to become the Beast in the first place, while he seems to completely forget all of the wrongdoing he committed, meaning that the chances of him trying to make amends after the curse is broken are slim.
7	* FanonDiscontinuity: While this might vary with the books depending on how people view them, "The Beast Within" might take the prize for ''the'' one most people would rather forget about, not only for the fact the Beast wasn't even the villain of the story to begin with, but also for making him much more unlikable than he already was during the prolouge and using some unneccesary CerebusRetcon to iconic scenes from the film that also contradict many facts about it.
8	* FridgeLogic:
9	** The Prince is shocked to learn that Circe seems to be a pig farmer's daughter... except he met her in Belle's tiny, provincial town, which doesn't seem to have anyone ''but'' farmers and merchants living in it! Why, exactly, was he so surprised to find out she wasn't nobility?
10	** In the same story, what exactly was the end goal of the witches? They seemed to want the Prince to live the rest of his life cursed and miserable, but then [[spoiler:are horrified at the thought of Gaston failing to kill him.]]
11	* HilariousInHindsight:
12	** One of Mother Gothel's sisters is named Primrose. Primrose was the {{fanon}} name of Rapunzel's mother before ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'' gave her the name Arianna.
13	** Gothel was among three of a powerful sorceress's daughters. In ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'', instead, she's revealed to have been among three of a powerful warlock's apprentices.
14	* LesYay: The Queen and Verona have their fair share. They consider each other sisters and they're just as close as the Queen is with her husband. After the King dies, Verona becomes a LivingEmotionalCrutch to the Queen. The Queen also becomes quite jealous when Verona finds a husband.
15	* MoralEventHorizon: The Prince/Beast in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' is described as merely being "spoiled, selfish, and unkind" as a human, but the {{Backstory}} he gets in ''The Beast Within'' has him arranging for the death of a painter because he wasn't happy with the portrait he painted of him and fiancée number two. He breaks off his engagement with her -- a woman who's become a LoveMartyr for him, putting up with his emotional abuse -- knowing full well it will be the ruin of her kingdom. And when Belle flees the castle, he initially pursues her with the intent of killing her. Any or all of these events can be seen as crossing the horizon...which is unintentional on the author's part, as the reader is still supposed to root for him and Belle getting together and breaking the curse, and he does nothing more heroic than he does in the movie to compensate for his crimes.
16	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: PerspectiveFlip novels featuring some of the most interesting antagonist figures in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon? A great idea, but ''Fairest of All'' dilutes the Evil Queen's evil by presenting her as more of a victim of abusive figures than anything else, ''The Beast Within'' goes full RonTheDeathEater on the Beast and lets the Odd Sisters become a SpotlightStealingSquad, and ''Poor Unfortunate Soul'' is more interested in what they, Princess Tulip, and Nanny are doing than in Ursula's story, which is more told than shown. The books come off as the author using WolverinePublicity to push original characters.
17	** In ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', there was a skeleton locked up in the Queen's dungeon. In ''Fairest of All'', considering [[spoiler: Verona]] has been titled Fairest in the Land, it would've been interesting to see [[GreenEyedMonster the Queen]] go as far as locking up [[spoiler: her best friend]] and leaving [[spoiler: her]] to rot, [[EvilIsPetty just so she can be the Fairest.]] Instead, the Queen just bans [[spoiler: Verona]] from the Kingdom. Nothing more.
18	** Why would you make a horrible monster out of the Beast when Gaston is RIGHT THERE!?!? It seems that Serena Valentino has eventually realized this, since she has now written a book from Gaston's perspective.
19	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Circe. She's described as being [[InformedAbility kind and compassionate]], but she only curses the Prince after he jilts her personally (even though one would think she would have picked up on the fact that he's rather selfish and misogynistic in general), she extends the curse to the servants after he taunts her (essentially messing up their lives just so he'll be a little worse off), and then completely ignores him for years, without even thinking to check in on his progress until she hears her sisters are doing so behind her back (because of this, she doesn't learn about the abuse he heaped on Princess Morningstar until it's nearly too late to save her and her family). And on the subject of the last point, despite knowing how her sisters operate [[BlueAndOrangeMorality on a different moral sense than she]] and hate the Prince, she does little to enforce her order to leave him alone and is easily manipulated by them into not noticing them attempting to kill Belle and the Beast. The end of the novella also has her showing more sympathy to Belle than the Beast, who besides being the character she actually knew and claimed to care about, is ''on the ground, dying of a stab wound''.

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