WoW #79: A Whole New World by Liz Braswell

Item: A Whole New World
Author: Bee

Posted February 11, 2015 by Bee in Memes & Features / 8 Comments

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, which spotlights upcoming books that we eagerly anticipate!

A Whole New World

by Liz Braswell
Series: Twisted Tales #1
Published on September 1st 2015
by Disney Press
Genres: Retelling, Young Adult
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Also by this author: A Whole New World (A Twisted Tale #1)

Welcome to a new YA series that reimagines classic Disney stories in surprising new ways. Each book asks the question: What if one key moment from a familiar Disney film was changed? This dark and daring version of Aladdin twists the original story with the question: What if Jafar was the first one to summon the Genie?

When Jafar steals the Genie’s lamp, he uses his first two wishes to become sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. Agrabah lives in fear, waiting for his third and final wish.To stop the power-mad ruler, Aladdin and the deposed Princess Jasmine must unite the people of Agrabah in rebellion. But soon their fight for freedom threatens to tear the kingdom apart in a costly civil war.

What happens next? A Street Rat becomes a leader. A princess becomes a revolutionary. And readers will never look at the story of Aladdin in the same way again.

Why I’m waiting:
I wasn’t going to make a WoW post this week but then I found this book and HOLY MACARONI I NEED THIS ONE SO BAD! I also wait for the final cover before sharing a book BUT I DON’T CARE I WANT THIS. Who’s with me? Though I don’t know the author and if they F this up, I’ll be very very angry.

But for now I’m excited and I can’t wait to read this!

What are you waiting for this week?

About Liz Braswell

After the sort of introverted childhood you would expect from a writer, Liz earned a degree in Egyptology at Brown University and then promptly spent the next ten years producing video games. Finally she caved into fate and wrote Snow and Rx under the name Tracy Lynn, followed by The Nine Lives of Chloe King series under her real name, because by then the assassins hunting her were all dead. She also has short stories in Geektastic and Who Done It and a new series of reimagined fairy tales coming out, starting with A Whole New World—a retelling of Aladdin.
She lives in Brooklyn with a husband, two children, a cat, a part-time dog, three fish and five coffee trees she insists will start producing beans any day.

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Bee (born as Bieke) is 27 years old and from Belgium. (No she won't send waffles.) She's a strange, nerdy and anxious creature floating around somewhere on the ace spectrum. Oh, and she also writes books as Nelly B. Jones. Or tries to anyway. You can also find her on Novel Ink.

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