Especially since someone in the palace may intend harm upon the weakening king, and the lovelorn prince….įirst off, I feel the need to briefly defend Disney’s Cinderella, as a character. But the search for the mysterious princess has begun to take a toll on the king, the prince, and even the grand duke, and the time to find a bride is growing short. She eventually finds work in the royal palace as an attendant to the king’s visiting sister. Her stepfamily immediately suspects that she is the mysterious princess, so, in order to protect her identity, Cinderella smashes the remaining slipper, and escapes the chateau. In this version of Disney’s Cinderella, Cinderella is unable to try on the glass slipper. But there was something in particular about the Cinderella story that compelled me to buy a copy…and tear through it in a day. I wasn’t interested in them until I began seeing some of my favorite characters, like the Beast, the Evil Queen, and Cinderella, on the covers. In recent years, the Twisted Tale series have started taking off, re-imagining popular Disney characters and stories. But there is always a little voice in the back of my head wondering when published fan fiction is worth reading-especially Disney fan fiction. I’m not saying that there isn’t some quality fan fiction out there that deserves mainstream attention I’ve read some legitimately awesome fan-written stories. However, it’s an entirely different story when fan fiction becomes mainstream-marketable, publishable. I fall somewhere in the middle I wrote lots of it when I was in high school, and, from time to time, I go back and find new stories to enjoy.

Fan fiction is one of those things that people either gobble up like a Thanksgiving dinner, or they think is tasteless and disgraceful.

Twisted tales elizabeth lim