Reflection: A Twisted Tale by Elizabeth Lim, 408 pages. Disney Press, 2018. $18.
Content: Language: G; Mature Content: G; Violence: PG.
BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS – ESSENTIAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH
This twist on Mulan
starts on the snowy pass when the Hun soldiers are fighting against Shang,
Mulan and their friends as the Huns are headed to attack the Imperial City. Mulan, still known as Ping, is attacked but instead
of getting hurt, Shang takes the blow.
Mulan still causes the avalanche and saves the city, but Shang is dying
from his injury. In the night, as Shang
is passing away, Mulan sees Shang’s father and learns that she can go into the
underworld and try to convince King Yama, the ruler of the underworld, to maybe
let Shang stay and defend China. Mulan
starts a journey into the underworld where she has to convince Shang to fight
to live and she has to face her own self-doubt.
I LOVE Mulan. She is my favorite
Disney character and I was concerned that this story wouldn’t stay true to
Mulan’s awesomeness, but it did. It was
fun to imagine more to the story of Mulan and Shang. Fun, fast read that I couldn’t put down.
C. Peterson.
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