UnEnchanted: An Unfortunate Fairy Tale Series #

"Disappointed in my fellow reviewers for leading me astray" according to Joyous. While I'm far from the target audience for this book (26, female), I've read my fair share of young adult novels. The high ratings on this book genuinely shock me. The PREMISE of the story is great. The execution left quite a lot to be desired.The set up of the story had promise, but then BAM: all of a sudden a bunch of poorly explained but important facts get thrown at the main character and she accepts them with very little argument. When Harry Potter finds out he's a famous boy wizard, it takes up a huge chunk of the book; and for good reason, right? Setting up y. I love fairy tale retellings and tend to read quite a I love fairy tale retellings and tend to read quite a few of them so I was excited to begin this series. I downloaded the audiobook for my at work listen and found myself listening at the gym and in the car. I love that the book didn’t focus on the light-hearted fairy tales portrayed by Disney, but touched on the frightening aspects of Grimm’s original tales.While the main character Mina can be annoying, overall she’s a great heroine, even if she is reluctant about it throughout the book. She’s brave and smart, while she isn’t described. I still greatly enjoy young adult/teen fiction of all sorts I admit, I'm definitely not the target demographic for this. I haven't been a teen for almost seven years now. That being said, I still greatly enjoy young adult/teen fiction of all sorts. I even take a certain perverse pleasure in just plain terrible writing; it has all the appeal of watching a train wreck.Unfortunately, this book is worse than bad, it's bland. It was recommended by a friend. The general idea seemed great, exactly like the usual sort of thing I like to read, but the execution was lacking. I think this had the potential to be so much more interestin

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. But with her new found fame brings misfortune in the form of an old family curse come to light. 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.. 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