This book is quite entertaining for young adults audience. It is very well written and has a heroine as main character. She is full of life and counts on a giant speaking rabbit for her sidekick. Their task is to destroy the Corrupted, characters that came to life from Grimm's Fairy Tales after brothers Grimm draw them using a special magic ink. They live among humankind and are becoming evil by the minute. In order to destroy them, our heroine (Alice) has only one tool, a magic fountain pen that she can use to draw into reality anything that she imagines. The book as a matter of fact is a collection of three episodes. First one is called "Prince Charming Must Die", second one is "Happily Never After" and third one is "Revenge of the Castle Cats". At the end of the book you find fourteen original Grimm's Fairy Tales. It took me around fourteen hours to read the whole book.

I bought this book from amazon.com and opinion expressed here is my own.
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Summary of Book
This fantasy book Little Red Riding hoods Quest to defeat the Big Bad Wolf. The Big Bad Wolf uses his pig minions to help throw obstacles in Red Riding Hoods way. In the end after her victor form defeating the Big Bad Wolf, she discovers that he is her father.

Personal Reaction
This book reminded me of Star Wars. Luke finally defeats the evil Draft Vader only to find out he was his father. Both movie and story have twist and turns keeping me hooked through out.

Extension Idea
Have the students write their own ending to the story. Have each student present his or her work to the class.

I was given an eBook from the authors for purpose of honest review. I was not compensated for the review, and all conclusions are my own responsibility.

Let’s start with the simple things. There are two ways to read this book. Since the authors have very kindly footnoted the stories with the actual Grimm’s Faerie Tales, you can read the story when the endnote appears, and refresh your memory about the original stories. And lest you think you ‘know’ the faerie tales – Grimm’s tales are not the made for movie Disney tales that have singing princesses and cute little animals. The other way to read is just to read – start to finish, where you get to fill in the blanks in your knowledge once you are done. While the first way is decidedly more awkward, it also is the one that fixes the action that Alice is seeing better in your mind. I’ve read this book twice – first front to back, secondly flipping through to endnotes. I can’t tell you which way is better – both work.

Alice is the heroine of this story, living in a rather ‘white bread’ Minneapolis suburb, in high school, only child and one who loves books and reading; so much so that she has chosen to volunteer at the library rather than work for her summer break. Alice is clever and funny; even when she is scared to death she has some part of her brain working to get her out of the bad situation. What she has come to realize, after her very own Harvey moment (Look it up – Jimmy Stewart movie) with Br’er Rabbit explains that she is the hero destined to save the world from the Corrupted.

Armed simply with a pen and her knowledge of Grimm’s Faerie Tales, Alice proceeds to rid the world of the corrupted, all the characters that travelled to our realm from the world created in the book.

Created as a series of 12 stories, they will have you laughing and wondering who is next, and what form will that character take. Alice alternates between being accepting and rather matter-of-fact about her role, and a rather immature teen without a clue. There are some really large “tells” in the story that point at the “bad guys”, although I tend to think Alice misses many of them because she is still in denial about the reality of the situation. Of course, she seemed to grasp onto the giant rabbit in waistcoat and breeches rather quickly, so it just may be the fact that it’s all new to her. It’s a great new take on the faerie tale classics, with enough interest for young adults and adults who are fans of faerie tales alike.
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*Disclaimer: I received a free copy in return for an honest review*

Author
Ken Brosky was born in Milwaukee. He has a bachelor's degree in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin and a Master's degree in writing from the University of Nebraska. His first novel was published in fall 2007. He has more than a dozen short stories published in magazines including Skyline and World Audience.
Isabella Fontaine lives in Winsconsin with her cats. The Grimm Chronicles is her first book.

Review
When I saw this book pop up on my rss feed with a request for spots for a blog tour I knew I had to react immediately. First the titles of the episodes where really catchy and I found the whole concept idea brilliant.
The first story caught me of guard though. I am not sure what triggered my annoyance button. The fact that they named him Edward or the three chapters where the drool of the effort to make him look brilliant was coming out of my e-reader. I was getting a bit scared for the rest of the book at that point but decided that I should at least try to finish the story and see how it would work out. AND I AM GLAD I DID!! After that first hiccups this book is getting funnier and funnier and it all starts to make sense.
Most loved character must be the bunny rabbit although I loved the diaries of Grace and would love to know more about her adventurers. With Alice I had more problems. The descriptions on the book talk about a strong female protagonist and I had a hard time seeing that at first. In the later stories and specially Revenge of the Castle Cats she takes matters in her own hand. She is slowly growing on me and I am looking forward to see her grow further in the upcoming stories.
This book also includes all the original stories of the corrupted mentioned in the book. This is very nice because there where a few I was not familiar with. ( )

Background: Alice is a normal 18 year old, finishing school, getting a volunteer spot at the local library, when she discovers she is the next hero. Her mission is to kill the Corrupted, or the characters from all the famous Fairy Tales that have lived past their stories and have become evil. This is all a bit strange, but what makes it even weirder is her helper, Briar, a giant talking rabbit...
To top it all off, only she can see the rabbit and the strange glowing coming from the Corrupted.

Review: This was a very fun read, it took a little while for me to get into it because there really isn't much by way of character development, but Alice eventually grows on you. The reason I liked this book so much was the in depth information about Grimm's Fairy Tales and how the modern versions of the characters are living, they don't know how to live outside of their tales and it is interesting how they each interpret that. Each chapter had a quote from a tale and I found myself wanting to go read the originals to see where these corrupted characters started out.

Alice was kind of normal, except that she was the hero. The most entertaining was the Rabbit, he is witty and sarcastic, and I found myself giggling out loud at his and Alice's interactions with one another.
There was a good amount of action, build up and foreshadowing throughout to keep the reader on their toes, I just wish Alice had been a little smarter at times. That was my only issue.

I think if you are interested in what might have happened to fairy tale characters after their stories, you will enjoy this read. It isn't a retelling but a continuation of their journeys.

So if you are a fan of Fairy Tales, retellings, Giant Rabbits, and stabbing people with pens (you will see what I mean)...than this is a great read for you. ( )