Ever After High: Once Upon a Twist: Rosabella and the Three Bears

Once Upon a Twist #3

by Perdita Finn

Things have gone topsy-turvy at Ever After High! After Faybelle Thorn casts a spell on the midterm hexams, the students find themselves unhexpectedly inside the wrong storybooks!
When Rosabella Beauty and Cedar Wood find themselves in Goldilocks and the Three Bears instead of their own fairytale storybooks, they realize the trouble has only just started. Someone has been blowing down houses-and the whole forest is starting to panic. Now it's up to Rosabella, Cedar, and the Three Bears to solve the mystery and get this storybook back on script!

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Genres: Fantasy, Middle Grade, Childrens, Fairy Tale Retellings, Fairy Tales

128 pages, Paperback

First published July 18, 2017

Reviews

[Dorian Jandreau · Rating 5 out of 5]

The last of mixed-up-stories book. In this book Rosabella, Cedar and Daring fell into Blondie Lockes' story and they had to solve a mystery of the forest.

[Bara · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is the fourth(!) Ever After High book that has a cleaning scene. Good thing the webisodes and tv/netflix special movies had only one and it was funny thanks to Faybelle sealing a deal with a fairy mafia.

Cedar was a bit OOC near the end, so was Daring. I know he's not the sharpest sword on the anvil but he isn't a jerk. I feel like Daring was roasted too much for what he did. Sure, he did tear down the houses but it was by accident. I realize this is my upbringing in a household where one parent is a doctor but I'd prefer if they cared for his health first and built the houses all together later. It would reinforce the friendship and teamwork message IMO.

This is a type of book you read only to happily cross it from your to-read list.

[Mary · Rating 1 out of 5]

Mehhhh

[Nikki · Rating 1 out of 5]

I had been really excited to read this book but it could have been so much better than it was. It still seriously bothers me that Daring saw he was Apple's prince in the Storybook of Legends and now he's supposedly Rosabella's prince. It doesn't make sense at all which is a huge reason why I didn't think this book was that great. In addition to that though this book wasn't written very well. It was really slow and nothing really happened in it. The entire book is Rosabella trying to figure out who's destroying the forest with the help of some friends but each time something is destroyed Rosabella has pretty much the same conversation with everyone and doesn't figure anything out. Then when they finally figure everything out the person causing all the problems doesn't really act like their character normally does. I was not impressed by this book and if there are any new books written in this series I hope they are way better that this one.

[✨Jinglemarco✨ · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a very simple fairy tale retelling, and nothing like the tetralogy by Shannon Hale. Goldilocks and the three Bears is my favorite fairy tale ever, so I was able to enjoy this book, but is definitely for younger readers and a bit cheesy.
Anyway, overall kind of cute.

[Bonnie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my favorite out of all the Once Upon a Twist books I've read! I love how Rosabella and Cedar worked together and discovered how great they are as partners and I especially loved how we got to see just a little more of Rosabella and Daring together as a couple!!

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick, fun fairy tale mix up.

[Kath · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.50

That .50 is only because it’s better than the others. Thank God they changed the writer. Still pretty simple and bland, but at least this one was entertaining.

[Jan Rąk · Rating 3 out of 5]

It looked like it was going to be a very good book from beginning to end, but then suddenly the author decided to start gulit-tripping Daring that he behaved badly because he had... a cold?

[Robin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book, wish we could of seen duchess lets down her hair and kitty’s mermaid tail.