Poor Unfortunate Soul: A Tale of the Sea Witch (Villains Book 3) Kindle Edition

Thought it would be more focused on the past of Ursula, story was still very good. And this is a very easy read.

Reading this book isn't one of them.Another fantastic book in an amazing series. If your a Disney villain fan, if you always wanted a deeper look into what makes your favorite villain tick these books are for you. Dark, a little twisted and an emotional roller coaster. You will find your self feeling for a broken Ursula, a product of her trauma, her pain. Fantastically well written, quick moving story that you may not be able to put down.

Only thing I was, “Meh” about was the marks on the cover of the book :/

Poor unfortunate soul a tale of the sea which was not what I expected, but still keeped the level of satisfaction that I was imagining. We didn't go directly to Ursulas background like the other stories ;instead the author lead us directly to a connection between the last book (The beast with in) and this one , making some sense of satisfaction to readers that followed the order of the series 👌 (obviously these books should be read in order otherwise there would be a lot of dislike and confusion).SpoliersNow talking about the characters and their develop meant i want to be as briefly as possible.Starting with the sister; I liked to see how desperate they were to find their little sister showing that even though they look machiavellian they do have some sort of humanity within them. I loved to see how all the witches interacted with each other, and the mention of maleficent and her warning to ursulas mischievous plan.I was not expecting at all how crucial tulip and grandma were going to be for ursula's fate. Tulip's growth from the last book and this one was taken beautifully; i loved those little moment were the author showed us her thoughts about how she thought her beauty took her voice and strength showing that she wasn't a dumb empty princess as we thought.Tulip's grandma always gave that witchy feeling so I wasn't that surprised when they reviled she was a witch, but I loved her character and the hints that she was someone with more history that we thought.URSULA finally Ursula , all I have to say is that she was a victim driving by revenge; as the book itself said, she would've been different if her brother wouldn't have been such an jealous and greedy being. She was too deep into her hatred and she was consumed desperation , everything for her distrust to others.

Another beautifully written story jaw dropping wonderful story and another I read in one day can't wait to read the next

I thought this story would dive a little deeper into the backstory of Ursula and it did to an extent. The jumping between characters’ POVs was sometimes hard to follow. A lot of the dialogue came straight from the Disney version of The Little Mermaid which made the story feel familiar but I wish we would have had more insight into Ursula’s feelings and thoughts that led to her intentions. Overall, this is a good part of the Villains series.

Wonder of wonders, I read TWO books in ONE day!! Since I had previously read The Beast Within, the second book in Serena Valentino's Disney Villains series, I moved straight onto Poor Unfortunate Soul, which, as you can see, is Ursula's story. Hers was quite an interesting one too, I'll give you that!What I am finding myself loving about this series is seeing the movie play out in a way, yet we're seeing what's happening on the villain's point of view! In Fairest of All, we were following the Queen before she turned evil and wicked. This time we are with Ursula learning what cause her to turn to her path of evil and I must say it was pretty distressing. Hers was a sad tale like that of the Queen's. This series is definitely making one feel sympathy for these classic Disney villains.The odd sisters have come to Ursula because they want her help in finding their sister, Circe, who we previously met in The Beast Within. She has since gone missing and the sisters desperately want their youngest sister to come back to them. So they agree to help Ursula in destroying Triton so that she may be the only ruler of the sea.I found that this time there was a lot of reflecting back on the last story, which was the first one I read a few years ago, so naturally my memory wasn't so hot. We see Tulip, the young girl who was going to marry the Prince before his untimely transformation into a literal beast. Tulip wasn't doing so well with from the rejection of the Prince. And we learn she had unwittingly made a deal with Ursula that will greatly effect life as she knows it.I'm beginning to realize that these odd sisters are having their own story happening and it's building with each of these books. I'm definitely eager to get to this year's release given its Odd Sisters title! Alas, I've two more villains to read about before that and I am pretty excited to read about Maleficent and Mother Gothel! Maleficent has been mentioned several times now in these two (and like the second and thus making three) books and I am really interested in reading what her story will be like and what the odd sisters will do next given the events of this last one.This Disney Villains series is definitely one a Disney fan should not be without! It's a fun and magical series that is taking the stories we love and know by heart and showing us a different angle and letting us in on a whole new story that was always happening behind the scenes!Overall Rating 5/5 stars

I’m not a big reader, but I do enjoy this series. So, do my girls that are 15 and 9

Ursula has, and always will be one of my favourite Disney villains. The cover is beautiful, she looks divine (much like the drag queen that inspired her), with a slight look of menace in her eyes and originally I liked the idea - to fill in the back story of Ursula and figure out why she came to be who she was.The novel opens frighteningly, with perhaps a very graphic description of Ursula’s wrath upon others, so I’m not sure if it quite fits for the opening to a Disney novel. I add that this takes place in in the (Essex) town of Ipswich no less - dare I say chosen just because of the name, nothing more...Shortly after, new characters are introduced, three sisters who are friends with the sea witch. They’ve a cat… but we’re now at the point where things take a second flight of fancy, where their cat has the same name as the author? Pardon... Excuse me?Elsewhere other Disney characters are mentioned and somehow the Disneyverse is intertwined? I don’t want a story featuring Snow White, Maleficent or The Beast… this is supposed to be about Ursula. Granted, I read this as a standalone novel, rather than part of a series. By this point, I think I had slightly lost the plot with the book as a whole and found great delight in picking out its flaws thereafter.Sebastian and Flounder don’t exist in this version of the story, but somehow Scuttle does; “Mum” features a few times; Tea is taken with cream and sugar and the one that takes the biscuit is that somehow The Enchantress from Beauty and The Beast has a major plot role of The Little Mermaid.From what originally held so much promise and could have been potentially entertaining, we end up with dialogue straight from the 1989 story in places, and the end result not really being about Ursula at all...Perhaps someone younger than myself, would enjoy this, but me, as a diehard fan of the original 1989 classic, I feel this is a poor unfortunate soul of a book.

I was so excited to read this book! The Little Mermaid is my favourite so to see Ursula’s backstory as to why she became so full of hate fascinated me.In the film there’s reference to her being banished by King Triton but there’s no backstory there which I think would be an interesting read... if told properly unlike in this book!The book is more about 4 witches than it is about Ursula? So confusing and does not have much relevance to the actual story, it seems to reference a lot of people other Disney characters, it’s asif the series of books are intertwined with each other telling a story of its own instead of focusing on the villain the book is supposedly about.In the book it references to King Triton and Ursula being brother and sister contradicting the little mermaid 2: return to the sea as Morgana is Ursula’s sister there’s no relation between them and Triton.This book is more of a childish fantasy however, I wouldn’t recommend for children either as there are gruesome parts throughout.I was going to buy some other books from this series but after reading this one I won’t bother. So disappointed it isn’t true.

Disney offers up numerous books in the twisted tales series and I am aware that some people find the crossover of characters from other stories can frustrate but for me personally I think these stories are well written and an interesting take on the well known Disney characters we all know and love (or love to hate) and this is a book I really enjoyed reading and have re-read once already.

As a fan of Disney villains, I liked the book, and I thought it was good. But not too sure I liked the whole background thing with Cerce and Ursula. I love Ursula as a villain in her own right, and loved the background story of what Triton let happen to her Dad, but feel like that could have had a much bigger part to play in the ending than it actually did.

Absolutely loved this book I have a large collection of them and love how they all tie in together somehow highly recommend