Author - Chanda Hahn
Series - An Unfortunate Fairytale
Genre - YA fairytale fantasy
Published - 2011
Synopsis
Mina Grime is unlucky, unpopular and uncoordinated; that is until she saves her crush's 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 a descendant 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 its' next fairy-tale 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.
Review
Mina doesn’t
try to draw attention to herself, because in the past her mother has packed
them up moving them across the country. She isn’t popular, clumsy and completely
lost when it comes to pop culture but that is all about to change when she
saves a popular boy at a bakery. Now that Mina has saved Brody the popular he’s
showing an interest in being more than just friends. When Mina is attacked
outside the library and Brody is there he wants her to tell the police but she
knows the police won’t be able to help her but she doesn’t think she can tell
him the truth.
Mina confronts her mother in attempt to keep
her from moving them again only to find out that she comes from a long line of
Grimms that have been cursed. In order to break the curse she will need to
confront them all head on it could mean her death but she has to do it to save
her little brother. At least she won’t have to do it on her own she has the
help of her best friend, a magical Grimoire, a stranger who seems to know more
than he’s letting on and her crush Brody. Will Mina survive the fairytale dance
with Brody? Will the fae catch up with her before the dace?
I think Mina is a likeable character she has
typical high school unpopular girl problems. She is one of those characters
that just gets better as the story progress when she starts hunting the
fairytales. I wasn’t sure how I felt about Brody he’s the rich popular perfect
guy that all the girls want to be with but he only has eyes for Mina. As the
book continued I decided that Brody is strong enough to accept that Mina is a
Grimm and support her. I’m curious to see how this will play out for them in
the future books.
I picked up
UnEnchanted as a kindle freebie last year but never seemed to get around to it until
this last challenge. I think the author has created a great concept taking the
Fairytales idea and putting her own unique spin on Mina’s story. The book does
start out a little slow but don’t let that fool you it’s has everything it
needs to be a great story. Sadly I didn’t connect with Mina as much as I would
have liked but I did like her character. I see lots of potential for this
series in future books, and I am curious to read them but I can’t say for sure
how soon that will be. I really wish I could have loved UnEnchanted but I did
it was good but not as amazing as I had hoped.
3 out of 5 stars
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