Mina Grime is unlucky, unpopular and uncoordinated, that is
until she saves her crushes life on a field trip, changing her High School
status from loser to hero overnight. But with her new found fame brings
misfortune in the form of an old family curse come to light. For Mina is
descended from the Brothers Grimm and has inherited all of their unfinished
fairy tale business. Which includes trying to outwit a powerful Story from
making her it’s next fairytale victim.
To break the fairy tale curse on her family and make these
deadly occurrences stop, Mina must finish the tales until the very Grimm end.
This is a free book that I got on my Kindle that I was
pretty excited to read. I really enjoy fairy-tale books (if you haven’t noticed
that already) and was intrigued when I read the above synopsis. Mina is a fun
character, though I felt like she was a little stereotypical of the “I think
I’m homely but I’m actually gorgeous” ploy. That always bothers me when an
author does that, I find it boring and predictable. But I enjoyed Mina’s best
friend Nan, who sports Edward and Jacob t-shirts and is constantly obsessed
with how many people are following her on Twitter. The fairy-tale part of the
book, with the curse and what-not was…interesting. The fairy-tales aren’t
straightforward when Mina has to relive them, so that was fun to try and figure
out how she was supposed to ‘complete’ the fairy tales. But it also sorta
killed my interest, because it seemed too easy at times. I was pretty sad about
the ending for Mina, but I won’t spoil it. I liked the fae boy Jared, and am
interested as to who he actually is; so that’s probably the only reason I would
continue the series, because I’m intrigued as to his true identity. But, you
know, for a free book, this is pretty fun if you like Grimm fairy tales and
unlucky girls and a little romance thrown in.
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