Book: Sisters Grimm: The Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley
Synopsis:
For Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, life has not been a fairy tale. After the mysterious disappearance of their parents, the sisters are sent to live with their grandmother–a woman they believed was dead! Granny Relda reveals that the girls have two famous ancestors, the Brothers Grimm, whose classic book of fairy tales is actually a collection of case files of magical mischief. Now the girls must take on the family responsibility of being fairy tale detectives.
Summary:
Twelve year old Sabrina Grimm and her seven year old sister, Daphne, are shuffled from one foster home to another in New York City since their parents have gone missing. The police have found no leads
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They are expected to continue this tradition, and this investigation is only the beginning of Sabrina and Daphne's journey into the world of fairy tales. When their Granny Relda is taken by a giant, it is up to the girls to save her.
Characters:
Sabrina and Daphne are real kids and easy to relate to and root for. Sometimes obnoxious, they are also funny, adventurous, and trying their best to hide the pain of losing their parents. The characters they meet in Ferry Port Landing are a bit more eccentric, but a lot of fun. Granny Relda serves the girls neon colored foods and her house is filled with books. Puck is the young trickster king who enjoys annoying Sabrina a little too much. Prince Mayor Charming is arrogant and selfish, but fascinating. I love reading how Buckley reimagines each EverAfter we meet.
Plot/Pacing/Structure:
The story moved quickly and always kept my attention. I enjoyed the mystery that was resolved in the book, even though I knew how it would end. The series mystery was sprinkled in just enough to get me interested, without being overwhelming for a first book. There was lots of action, but the reimagining of familiar EverAfters kept my interest no matter what else was happening in the
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I think that overall the book was an amazing book. It drew me in the entire time and I could not put it down because of that. If any part started to get boring something insane would happen to make it interesting. For example in one part of the book it starts to get a little bit slow because it just talks about search methods a group of Bzrk members were using. Then suddenly a fake swat team busts into the house and kills everyone inside besides one child who ends killing almost all of the fake swat team. Another example was that a girl was sitting on the beach counting and kept counting for a while. Then suddenly she gets kidnapped and brought aboard a ship that is full of crazy people. Those are just some the things that happen throughout the book that keep interested on every page.
III. The Obedience of Women Introduction Not only are women expected to lead lives in which they depend on men to be happy and wealthy, but they are expected to do so with total obedience to the expectations of men. It is important to see how women react to the requests of men and how much freedom for thought and action they are allowed to have and what consequences occur when a woman disobeys what is asked of her. Cinderella In the Brothers Grimm, the first characterization of Cinderella is a description that “she was always good and said her prayers” (Grimm 122).
An Analysis of the Grimm Brothers by Edgar Allen Poe Edgar Allen Poe wrote a paper on the philosophy of writing good short fiction. It was published in a book called ‘New short story theories’ by Charles E May. He stated: ‘What I here propound is true: -therefore it cannot die:-or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will ‘rise again to the life everlasting’ nevertheless, it is as a poem only that I wish this work to be judged after I am dead. P69 + 70
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