Ｔｉｔｌｅ： What Once Was Mine
Ａｕｔｈｏｒ： Liz Braswell
Ｓｅｒｉｅｓ： Book 12
Ｒａｔｉｎｇ： ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
＊Ｎｏｔｅ：This is part of the Twisted Tales series, but all books can be read as standalones. I received a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
The 12th installment in the New York Times best-selling series asks: What if Rapunzel's mother drank a potion from the wrong flower?
Desperate to save the life of their queen and her unborn child, the good people of Corona search for the all-healing Sundrop flower to cure her—but mistakenly acquire the shimmering Moondrop flower instead. Nonetheless it heals the queen, and she delivers a healthy baby girl with hair as silver and gray as the moon. With it comes dangerous magical powers: the power to hurt, not heal. For her safety and the safety of the kingdom, Rapunzel is locked in a tower and put under the care of powerful goodwife, Mother Gothel.
For eighteen years Rapunzel stays locked away, knowing she must protect others from her magical hair. But when she leaves the only home she's ever known, wanting only to see the floating lights that appear on her birthday, she gets caught up in an adventure across the kingdom with two thieves—a young woman named Gina, and Flynn Rider, a rogue on the run. Before she can reach her happy ending, Rapunzel learns that there may be more to her story, and her magical tresses, than she ever knew.
This has to easily be one of my favorite retellings in the Twisted Tales series! I adored every second of reading this book! It still paralleled the movie pretty well but I didn't mind that. The details were a little different but the overall journey was the same.
Something that this book did really well was expanding on the romance between Rapunzel and Flynn. They had more time to develop things slowly and it made it so much better. It was cute and sweet.
Another thing I really enjoyed (oddly enough) was getting to spend more time with Gothel and seeing her schemes. She had less appearances in the movie, so it was nice to see more of her cunning and sassy comments this time around. Plus, I liked how the stakes were upped by having more people hunting for Rapunzel.
And something else that this book did differently was Rapunzel's powers. Her abilities were more complicated in this book. I loved that change because it expanded more on the lore about where these powers came from and how they worked. I thought it was an interesting twist. Overall, it was a really well-thought-out retelling of this lovely Disney tale that any fan of fairytales will enjoy!
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