Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

A very, very weak 1.5 stars for this book. I was sorely disappointed upon reading this, but it looks like a lot of my friends are running into disappointing books this week. The premise behind the story of Mina Grime had all of the workings of a great, engaging story, but it was not delivered. Mina-- a descendent of the Brothers Grimm-- has inherited her family curse that has killed all the members of the Grimm family up until this point, a wager made between Wilhem and Jacob and the Fae that causes them to have to work through 200 fairy tales before they die, and the Fae will not interfere with the human world. For those who know the Grimm versions of the stories, they do not often have happy endings. The original Grimms completed 190. Mina's father was only able to complete 10. When the Story places it's eyes on Mina, she must pick up from the very beginning and fight her way through the tales in order to keep the curse from hurting her mother, now widowed, and her younger brother. Everything about that drew me in. I wanted to read this story. It was something unique that I thought I would enjoy, but instead I found this: A poorly and practically unedited story. For a Kindle freebie this may be commonplace, but sentences such as "The DJ was is" or "out in her" are just inexcusable for any kind of published... well, anything. It was a major draw back as this was something that occurred so often it was jarring. If it was not words that did not make sense, it was run on sentences or misplaced commas. Cookie cutter characters. Mina, the "heroine", was so self depreciating she spent the entire book feeling she was nothing, hiding from attention, feeling like she was not good enough, and waiting for people to save her. Brody, her "prince", is rich, hot, and doesn't care about money or the fact Mina is extremely poor, unpopular and awkward. He sits with her for hours, buys her a new cell phone the first week they are dating, picks her up in limos. Anything that they fight about he accepts as his fault and showers her with pretty words and gifts, an is protective to a fault. Her best friend Nan is nonstop loyalty and fun. All the characters fit their roles so perfectly that they are FLAWLESS, and not relatable or realistic in any sense. I could not stand this. Predictable, predictable, predictable. I really am disappointed because I wanted to like this book and I just didn't.