The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley

I got The Fairy Tale Detectives as a gift a few weeks ago, but never started to read it. It seemed like a book better suited for fifth or sixth graders. However, when I eventually got around to read it, I was pleasantly surprised.

The story is about two sisters, Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, who after their parents mysteriously disappear, are sent to live with a grandmother that they've never met in a town where fairy tales might not just be stories after all...

The book is sweet and quirky, with oddly charming moments like the bright green meatballs that the Grimms' grandmother serves to them. There are also darker moments to the story too, that provide the perfect amount of suspense, and a shocking twist at the end. The Fairy Tale Detectives is a great quick read at 280 pages, with some accompanying illustrations, and is the first book in the promising Sisters Grimm series.

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I love to read, so this blog will be about, of course, books (with maybe the occasional foray into my mediocre writing abilities). It'll probably mostly YA stuff, and mostly fantasy and historical fiction. I'll be able to do (if I'm lucky) one book a week, but two weeks at the most. So...yeah. Alright.
Yay.