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Fate Be Changed

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by Farrah Rochon
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What if the witch gave Merida a different spell? This New York Times best-selling series twists DisneyPixar's Brave into a fast-paced story in which Merida is sent back in time.
If you could change your fate, would you? Merida understands that as princess of Clan DunBroch, she has certain obligations—but that doesn't mean she has to like it. Especially when one of those obligations means losing her freedom by becoming betrothed to a man she has never met. Merida balks at this tradition, but her mother Queen Elinor insists that Merida must do this to embrace her role as future queen.
Determined to chart her own path, Merida follows magical wisps to a witch's cottage, where she is given a magic pastry and promised it will incite "a great transformation" in her mother. But instead of feeding Elinor the pastry, Merida eats it herself.
Merida awakens in the past, a now-teenage Elinor holding a knife to her throat and accusing her of espionage. She's been transported to a time when the Clans MacCameron and DunBroch are bitter enemies. And it just so happens that the timing of Merida's arrival has kept Elinor and Fergus from meeting.
Will Merida be able to bridge the rival clans, help her parents fall in love, and change her own fate?

  • Creators

  • Series

    Twisted Tales

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    April 2, 2024

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781368097024

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781368097024
      • File size: 2971 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      March 1, 2024
      This fantasy/romance story set in the world of the animated Disney film Brave reconciles Merida to her mother and her (slightly changed) future. Nineteen-year-old Merida believes that she's "her father's fierce lass, not her mother's proper princess." She wants to be free--to change traditions and escape her fate as a bride in a marriage of political expedience. After a heated clash with her mother, Queen Elinor, Merida comes across a witch, who gives her a magical cake that guarantees "a great transformation." After eating it, Merida wakes up in the past, where she discovers that when she was Merida's age, Elinor had similar fears and aspirations. The chapters switch between following the young Elinor and the time-traveling Merida. The narrative feels somewhat bloated, but the pace is generally swift enough, propelled by Merida's need to help her young mother escape her betrothal and maneuver her future parents into love so that she can return to the present. A subplot follows another consequence of Merida's consumption of the witch's spell, one involving a Viking threat. Meanwhile, the spell is inexorably physically transforming Merida, while moments of reflection show that she's changing emotionally. The medieval Scottish setting is not richly developed, but some vocabulary adds to the atmosphere. Readers see Elinor develop royal responsibility but never learn why her own past hasn't helped her understand her daughter. The story refers glancingly to the film, but the novel can stand alone. An entertaining and undemanding entry in a popular series. (Fantasy. 12-15)

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