“You’re right. You’re old enough to know the truth, to share the burden.” Sara waited until Charlie had left the kitchen and headed for a second round of favorite objects to pack away. “Mina, I’ve lied to you about your name, about everything.”“Okay,” she said, her voice sounding shaky.“Our last name isn’t Grime. It’s Grimm. And for as long as I could remember, we’ve been trying to outrun it.”“Outrun what exactly?”“Outrun what killed your father years ago…the Grimm curse.”
Fractured fairy tales are always fun to write, and read, but this is a different take on them completely. The story focuses around Mina Grime (Grimm) a teenager who always has ‘weird’ things happen to her. When they happen her mother freaks out and they move, again. UnEnchanted focuses on Minas story, it introduces the reader to her Mom, brother, best friend and high school crush while interweaving some of them into various fairy tales without her knowledge. Turns out Mina is a Grimm and her ancestors were cursed into completing fairy tale quests. It killed Mina’s Dad and so her mother has always run from it. Mina decides she has to protect her mute baby brother from the same fate so she tries to take on the tales herself. A fascinating take on some well known Brothers Grimm tales. If you enjoy stories with faeries and big bad wolves, with a little high school angst and romance, then this is a tale for you.
