Review: *****5-Grimm Fairytale_Stars***** Jenn @ Bookworm Betties
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2014
*****5-Grimm Fairytale_Stars*****this review contains minor spoilers“Silly girl. Of course your magic is good enough. Magic isn't about control or power. Magic is all about believing in the impossible. Magic is believing in things you can't see or touch. The desire...the will...to make something true despite the laws that bind us all to the material world.”I wasn't sure what to expect going into this, but I've always been a lover of fairytales so the blurb caught my attention and I was excited to jump in... It was so much better than I ever could have guessed. I want to lose myself in Everafter and never ever leave.Rose and Bianca Frost ran the only children's museum in town: The Museum of Magical and Rare Artifacts. It focused mostly on items that came out of fairy tales and other rarely-heard fables from other countries. As far as Bianca knew they were the only museum in the United States that had such items.Seventeen-year-old Bianca Frost is stuck in a rut. Every day is spent working at her family's museum of rare artifacts steeped in every fairytale known to man. The museum and it's contents have been passed from mother to daughter for generations, but Bianca wants more from life then to spend the rest of it stuck in a museum. What's the point? Magic isn't even real anyway so why the 'family only' rule? Or so she thinks... til a late night visit from a violent woman who attacks her mother changes everything she's ever known and Snow White suddenly becomes more than just a fairytale.“Come on, Mom. Really?”“A lot of these stories are actually true. Not so much with the Hans Christian Andersen stories. He made a lot of them up...thankfully. But most of the fairy tales in the Grimm books have spells woven into the stories.”“Oh, my God. Are you serious?”“I am very serious. This isn't a joke. Magic is real. These stories are very real.”Bianca sets out on a quest to Everafter with her bestie Ming by her side. As she learns to use her magic and discovers herself, she comes across things that should never exist. She quickly learns that nothing is impossible, expect the unexpected and do what you must to survive. With the help of Ming, a few mysterious animals, new found friends Prince Ferdinand & Terrance, and armed with years of learned knowledge of fairytales, she sets off on the most dangerous adventure of her life.All of this stuff is real. She went from not believing in magic to being completely surrounded by every magical item known (or unknown) in the fairy tale world.From the very beginning this book gripped my attention. I loved how the magic of fairytales was woven into everyday life all surrounding a mortal, human girl. It. Was. Fantastic!! and the ending left me drooling for more.