This book tried my patience. It was interesting until it got to be too long. Several scenes could have reduced or even cut out completely and cut the length of the book by 50 pages or so. ( )

Although I thought it went on a bit too long, this is a good adventure story for readers who like books based on fairytales. It's sort of like Mysterious Benedict Society meets The Wizard of Oz. ( )

3 for 2 (this is the free one; list 5.99) ( )

This is another good example of characters that have been taken out of our original fairytales. Brothers are making wishes, that have consequences. Their family is cursed because of a witch, how will these people survive?

I have had this book to read for quite awhile. I really enjoyed the beginning of this book but as the story progressed I found my attention lagging. There are cute illustrations throughout which made the story pretty fun.

This is an interesting mash-up of folktales and fairy tales. There are little bits and pieces of many throughout. I actually started to find it a bit distracting sorting out which pieces of the story came from which fairy tales.

This is a fairy tale that is pretty dark in tone. I enjoyed the characters of Storm, Aurora, and Eden. However, my attention started to wander when the girls got trapped in the evil witch’s candy cottage and from there went off to face the Piper. I think things just started to get a bit too contrived and weren’t flowing all that well which made the story harder to read.

So, while I loved the style of writing in the beginning of the book...by the end of the book I started skimming through chapters because I was bored. I also disliked that this is one of those middle grade reads where every adult is either evil or ambivalent toward the children in it.

Overall this is an okay middle grade dark fairy tale; the beginning was well done and the end was just boring. Personally I would skip it; there are much better middle grade fairy tale mash-ups out there. I would recommend checking out the A Tale Dark and Grimm series by Adam Gidwitz...it’s a darkly hilarious and hugely entertaining fairy tale mash up. ( )