Review: thoughts on the grimm diaries prequels
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2014
This is a fun take on snow white. We are reminded by the Queen that the Grimm brother's changed the tales that they originally wrote about our fairy princesses. This one is of snow white and who she really is. The story is written as a letter to Wilhelm grimm and letting him know the damage he has done.The queen tells us of how snow white was born to her and how she loved her daughter but they knew she was different. The peasants told rumours of what she will become but they are not to be believed. It isn't until snow has a prince from another county come and she bites him that we see the rumours are true. to protect the people snow is put away and the queen fights evil to protect her but Snow does escape and the fight turns because if Snow isn't stopped the evil unleashed can be dire.I like how every 100 years the stories rise back to life and now it is about time and the queen has in possession the items to help her identify the lost seven that helped free snow from her confines. She must find them to prevent snow from escaping once again.The evil queen in her mind is really a misunderstood mom who loves her daughter and her people and is only trying to protect both.book #2:This one is written to the diary by alice grimm who has been tasked with the job of changing the fairy tales fates. Here it is Cinderella she must change. A body is found and she runs to Italy to see if it is cinderella.While there she meets the dreamhunter Loki, whom she ends up liking, and he helps her enter the dreams of the corpse but the corpse is not cinderella but her mom. Alice is fated with changing Cinderella's fate.A fun time with Loki and Alice as they fight time to change Cinderella's fate.the overall view:I wrote about two of the two tales in detail this is a overall look. These are great. Quirky, funny and edgy. Having Peter Pan interwoven in the tales and also Prince Charming as well. We see a few of the ones that are called the Lost seven. Riding hood being death cracks me up but the one that is so funny is Peter Pan with Count Dracula, the hunchback of notre dame and how he wakes up sleeping beauty who isn't just a grimm creation. That story will have you rolling with Dracula killing zombies, loving harry potter and thinking Draco Malfoy is a boy after his heart while Peter wishes to be a man sometimes but is hopelessly in love with Sleeping beauty. The one that is so precious is the last of Prince Charming and how it parallels romeo and juliet and the story of how the red apple came about.A great set of entertaining stories that will have you smile and laugh as we see just how distorted and wrong we are about the grimms stories. I wonder what the real tales are I look forward to reading those.