UnEnchanted (An Unfortunate Fairy Tale #1)

Summary:

Mina Grime is unlucky, unpopular and uncoordinated; until she saves her crush's life on a field trip, changing her High School status from loser to hero overnight. But with her new found fame brings misfortune in the form of an old family curse come to light. For Mina is descended 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 it's next fairytale victim.

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. (Summary and cover courtesy of goodreads.com)

Review:

This book was all around just fine – it was a great idea, but the way it was written wasn’t compelling for me.  I found Mina a bit annoying at times and I couldn’t tell if it was her character or if it was because it felt like the plot was throwing her around here and there as a character.  I really loved her best friend Nan and would enjoy seeing a spinoff around her.  The instalove was just ok, but it was more interesting how it developed towards the end, which is all I said without revealing spoilers.

The ending was a solid twist and was a bit more than I was expecting it to be, which saved the book from being a little too much of a YA duplicate.  The series has promise within the context, but I’m not sure I’ll continue.  For those who absolutely adore fairy tale retellings this will be a hit, but for everyone else I think it’ll be a little flat.

Warning: Contains violence and sexual references

Rating: 3 stars!

Who should read it? Big fans of fairy tale retellings and think a modern setting sounds intriguing.

Want to read the whole series?

• Fairest (An Unfortunate Fairy Tale #2)

• Fable (An Unfortunate Fairy Tale #3)

• Reign (An Unfortunate Fairy Tale #4)

• Jared’s Quest  (An Unfortunate Fairy Tale #4.5)

• Forever (An Unfortunate Fairy Tale #5)