A Tale Dark & Grimm

Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!Adam Gidwitz remembers the old tales - the ones with violence and blood - and truly regrets the watering down the modern times. And so he decides to tell the true tale of Hansel and Gretel. Their story is not all gingerbread and breadcrumbs- the......more

This debut YA novel is getting a lot of well-deserved attention. Gidwitz manages to balance the grisly violence of the original Grimms’ fairy tales with a wonderful sense of humor and narrative voice, somewhat reminiscent of Lemony Snicket’s take on the penny dreadful, but also completely fresh and......more

Lemony Snicket walked so this series could run. Yeah. I said it. My dear sister dearly loves this book, and so I read it because things that are dear to people who are dear to me should automatically be dear to me too. Feel like that’s a rule. This was fine, but a little boring. Which is shocking becaus......more

Didn’t want to read this. Nope. Not a jot. Three reasons for that. First off, the title. I’ve said it about twenty times since reading it and every time I can’t quite get it right (derivations have included "Something Dark and Grimm", “A Grimm Tale”, and “Something Grimm”). Second, the jacket of the......more

Kids, kiddies, more kids & way too much chopping of heads. I say: way too grimm and who's gonna be paying for that shrink for years to come? Q: You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide. No guide, that is, but cour......more