The Sisters Grimm is a delightful story that takes one to a land where characters from fairy tales are real. However, there is a catch–they are confined to one small town.  The chaos and conflicts that result from so many main characters and big personalities in one small place make this book a fun, fast-paced read.

The Grimm sisters discover the Grimm family secret as they are reunited with their grandmother, but at the same time they are thrown into this somewhat chaotic world.  All the favorite characters are there, but one is kept in suspense as one tries to figure out who is really a good guy and who is really the bad guy. The wonderful thing is that there are nine books in the series to try and figure out if your favorite fairy tale character is good or bad. And while girls as the main characters, I think this book is action-packed enough and includes enough familiar fairy tale characters, that any boy would love the book as well.

Content Analysis:

Profanity/Language:  None

Violence/Gore:  A few accounts and 4 extended/multi-page scenes of fairy tale-type violence with characters being chased or attacked by things like giants, wolves and pixies; a few accounts of verbal threats and attacks; one scene of people described as thugs attacking two characters.

Sex/Nudity:  None

Mature Subject Matter:

Disappearance of parents; discussion of foster parent cruelty; kidnapping of characters.

Alcohol / Drug Use:

One reference to character acting drunk.