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Review: UnEnchanted

UnEnchanted UnEnchanted by Chanda Hahn
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

EDIT: I just realized that this was my 100th book review!! Yay!

"Not every tale has a happy ending. In fact, many of them are grim."

This story is very compelling. It's about our protagonist Mina Grime, who finds out she's actually Mina Grimm, a decedent of the Grimm brothers. They got cursed and tricked by some evil Fae and Mina inherited their curse. The curse is that she has to live through every Brothers Grimm story, or die trying. The book was pretty good!... If you look past all the grammatical errors, and I heard people complaining about issues in the plot, so ignore that too!

Okay, hear me out.

The first time I read this book was waay back in 2012, I think. Actually it might have been 2013... I dunno. All I know is it was after grade six, which means that what I said in my Reading notes was wrong. Whoopsiess. I digress! I got this as a free e-book from the iBooks store back when my iPod was the only technology I owned. I read it... and I loved it! I usually never spent money on e-books, but I HAD to get the second book (which was the latest book at the time). I loved that one even more, and I waited impatiently for the third book. I preordered it and everything. When it finally released I dropped everything and read it. It was a huge disappointment.

It was mostly because of the writing. I didn't think it was good, and I had finally begun to noticed all the editing errors sprinkled throughout the whole book. I wasn't impressed. When it came time to preorder the next book I only did so because I got a bonus story with it. When I received my e-book I didn't read it. The last book came out earlier this year, and I didn't bother preordering it. Plus, it costs a whole six dollars! What!? I'm used to paying two, three dollars max on an e-book. Heck, I'm used to just getting the free e-books. Don't look at me like that! I'm a poor student with no credit card. Don't judge me.

So anyway, with all the hype for the last book I decided I wanted to finally start reading the series again. I started rereading the third book (the disappointing one), but after 50 or so pages I realized I had no idea what the heck was going on. So I started from the beginning, and now here we are. Wow three paragraphs of backstory, go me.

There was so much nostalgia. All the nostalgia. I had a really open mind rereading this because I knew there would be a lot of mistakes in it... aaaand there definitely were. But this is something I've noticed about me: as long as there's likable characters, a cool story, and good writing I'll probably like the book. I knew what to expect with the writing so it didn't bother me, so I was set! I don't really ever care about plot holes or anything, I read to be entertained so if I'm entertained it's good for me.

So yeah, I liked it. I don't know what else to say. My enjoyment definitely has to do with my previous history with this book, but that doesn't matter because I still had a great time.Off to the next one off to the next one!

Click these links to go read my other reviews for the Unenchanted Fairytale series!
Book 1: Unenchanted <--You are here.
Book 2: Fairest
Book 3: Fable
Book 4: Reign
Book 1.5: Jared’s Quest
Book 5: Forever

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