The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley

Hey TBF readers! its April now and there's a month left before the Teen Book Festival is upon us. That means just a few more posts from each of us bloggers before you get to meet this years authors! To make sure you're all ready I have another great book for you this week!

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.

I think Fairy-Tale Detectives is a great book to be my last book review of this blog season. As great as the various teen genres are, for me at least, I need to take a break from time to time and read something silly and fun like this book. 

Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are two young sisters who have been bounced between foster homes since their parents disappeared. Suddenly out of the blue their presumably dead grandmother, who lives in the seemingly sleepy farm town, Ferryport Landing, files for custody. They would quickly discover that Ferryport Landing was far from any ordinary town, with all the fairy tale legends living quiet lives unable to leave. I really thought their adventure was silly and fun, with the three little pigs as police men, snow white as a school teacher, and Prince Charming himself leading the town as its mayor. It was fun to watch the two siblings grow and learn through the story, as they work through their mistrust of supposed Granny Relda and take on the responsibility it is to be Private Investigators of the fairy tale community. Michael Buckley did an amazing job of writing the classic fairy tale characters we all know and love so that they could interact with his own new and exciting additions. 

I thought this book was a nice one to sit down and read for my last post of the season and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! This is the first book in a whole series and like many other blogging books before I'm excited to sit down with the sequels and see these books through. That's it for now! 

Theresa