Book Review- Homework

The Sisters Grimm

Fairy Tale detectives

In the late years of 2005, an exhilarating book was published. The enhancing book’s title was “Fairy Tale Detectives” the book also created a new range of some extravagant novels “The Sisters Grimm”.

In this fascinating book you get to meet four formidable characters one, with a majour hidden secret identity. The “Fairy Tale Detectives” has some very mischievous characters. Two sisters, Daphne and Sabrina Grimm are shipped off to an orphanage after their parents disappeared. The only evidence to their disappearance was a scarlet hand on the front of their parent’s car, The girls hopes start to shift as they are dumped in foster home after foster home each foster carer is ever a crazy psychopath, using the two young girls as their personal slaves. The girls luckily manage to narrowly escape from each home. On one occasion the two sisters escaped in the back of a pizza boy’s car, they stayed hidden until they got into town. The sisters are eventually taken to an eccentric old woman claiming to be there Grandmother. The girls were terrified when they found out as their parents had told the two girls that there grandmother was dead! Daphne slowly falls for the old lady, leaving Sabrina wondering was it really their grandmother or were her parents telling them lies.

The characters each carry some awesome and some very unique personalities ranging from mystical fairy tale creatures to typical human being. The book is based in a small mythical town named Ferryport landing. This small town also holds some of the worlds greatest fairy tale characters of all time including Jack, from Jack and the beanstalk, Snow White from the 7 dwarfs and Rumplestiltskin. All these characters are trapped in the small town after a witch named Baba Yaga cast a spell over the whole town. Only when the last of the Grimm’s dies will the  spell be broken.

Sabrina Grimm is very mischievous and always gets into all sorts of trouble even though she is only 11 years of age.  Sabrina’s sister, Daphne Grimm is only 7 years old and is almost the complete opposite of Sabrina as she is always trying to hold her sister back from getting into trouble but is generally sucked into her sister troublesome schemes.

I would recommend this book to almost anyone who loves fantasy mystery novels. I am not one to get stuck into a book, but “The Fairy Tale Detectives” is a book that I couldn’t get my nose out of. One night my parents told me to go and  read a book. I then stumbled around the house searching for a good book before finding myself in my sisters room asking her  for a recommendation. She gestured towards her bookshelf and pointed at a red vinyl spined book named “The Fairy Tale Detectives”. I was a bit deceived by the title but my sister is generally right when it comes to these types of things so I went down to my room and read. The book was brilliant I couldn’t stop reading. I probably never would have picked it up but I now know not to ‘judge a book by it’s cover’.

By Matt Crockett