Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Release Date: July 4, 2023
Publisher: Disney Press
Source: Publisher
Genre: Young Adult / Fantasy / Epic
Step into the Disney Mirrorverse, a brand-new realm full of
endless adventure, where mirrored reflections of beloved Disney and
Pixar characters are amplified and transformed, becoming battle-ready
Guardians that must unite to defeat a powerful evil that threatens their
home worlds and beyond.
Step into the Disney
Mirrorverse, a brand-new realm full of endless adventure, where mirrored
reflections of beloved Disney and Pixar characters are amplified and
transformed, becoming battle-ready Guardians that must unite to defeat a
powerful evil that threatens their home worlds and beyond.
Step into the Disney Mirrorverse, a brand-new realm full of endless
adventure, where mirrored reflections of beloved Disney and Pixar
characters are amplified and transformed, becoming battle-ready
Guardians that must unite to defeat a powerful evil that threatens their
home worlds and beyond. Set in a fantasy land that is familiar but slightly changed, the story begins as Snow White helps a young deer in the forest. This isn’t the Snow White that Disney fans know: she has been recently
transformed by the creation of the Disney Mirrorverse and given magical
powers that she does not yet know how to wield.
Despite her new
abilities and the strange things happening in her world, Snow White, or
“Snow” as her friends often call her, has been carrying on as
normal…until now. As she returns to her cottage, Snow spots her seven (Dwarves) friends with dark, angry expressions, and glowing white eyes. They attack her, claiming they need to capture “the heart of Snow
White.” Snow desperately tries to reason with her friends, but they
refuse to listen to her, and she ultimately has to use the strange magic
she has recently acquired to fend them off. Snow is horrified when it seems that she has accidentally killed her friends in her attempt to protect herself.
It is only when a strange talking creature, who she learns to be
Sorcerer Mickey, the ruler of the Disney Mirrorverse, arrives and
explains that the creatures she defeated were not her friends. They were
a group of Fractured: evil copies created by Dark Magic. Snow believes
that the evil Queen has taken her friends, and it is up to Snow to
retrieve them and the Fractured Mirror, the source of the Mirrorverse’s
power, before it can be used to destroy Snow’s home world forever. But Snow doesn’t need to face the Queen alone. Mickey assigns her
a team of Guardians, powerful beings from many different worlds who
have committed to thwarting the Fractured and protecting the Mirrorverse
from evil.
Snow meets Tiana (Princess and the Frog)—an expert potion-maker—Rapunzel (and Pascal)—a fighter
who knows how to wield a frying pan—Lilo’s companion Stitch—a chaotic blue alien who can
change forms— Sulley from Monsters, Inc— a monster with a big heart—and Hades—the lord of the
underworld, who has offered to join the mission to see what this whole
“Guardian gig” is about. This unlikely crew ventures into Snow’s world, where they find
growing Fractured, a determined huntsman, and a newly poisoned dark
forest. On the way to the palace, each character faces a challenge seemingly created just for them.
This story is a bit on the young side for my tastes. The intended audience is 7th to 12th
graders. The way this story ends, it would not surprise me if Dawson or another author picks up the series from here.
