A Tale Dark of Grimm
Adam Gidwitz
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45. min
Rating: 7.0/10.0
A Tale Dark of Grimm is the story of Hansel and Gretel, but not just the regular old kiddie version that everyone's heard. This is a series of short stories, most made up that tell an elongated, dark tale of Hansel and Gretel. It tells the stories of Hansel and Gretel, how they ran away from place to place to find "new" parents that always mistreat them, and finally, and encounter with the devil leading to a finale with a dragon. The most distinct thing about this authors style is that he constantly talks to you. He even tells you what the book is going to be about at the beginning,the very thing that we were told not to do in our writing in 4th grade. The book constantly switches from a first-person view that tells the authors opinions on what's happening in the story, which he narrates in 3rd person. It's almost as if the author wrote the story, read it, and every time he had an opinion, which is every 2 or 3 pages, he put in the book in a bold typeface. This could mess up the book a million different ways, but it actually makes the book really interesting because the author is pretty funny and witty. When you read, it feels like normal typeface stands for dark and scary, and bold typeface means funny. The story is decent, but it can get boring at times, and it sometimes gets gory and bloody without any reason. It's full of cliches, but I suppose it's excusable since it's supposed to be a fairy tale, and fairy tales are the origin of cliches( Hero fighting a dragon, anybody?)I'd say the Author's side commentary is the only thing that saves this book.
Adam Gidwitz
p.1-p.256(end)
45. min
Rating: 7.0/10.0
A Tale Dark of Grimm is the story of Hansel and Gretel, but not just the regular old kiddie version that everyone's heard. This is a series of short stories, most made up that tell an elongated, dark tale of Hansel and Gretel. It tells the stories of Hansel and Gretel, how they ran away from place to place to find "new" parents that always mistreat them, and finally, and encounter with the devil leading to a finale with a dragon. The most distinct thing about this authors style is that he constantly talks to you. He even tells you what the book is going to be about at the beginning,the very thing that we were told not to do in our writing in 4th grade. The book constantly switches from a first-person view that tells the authors opinions on what's happening in the story, which he narrates in 3rd person. It's almost as if the author wrote the story, read it, and every time he had an opinion, which is every 2 or 3 pages, he put in the book in a bold typeface. This could mess up the book a million different ways, but it actually makes the book really interesting because the author is pretty funny and witty. When you read, it feels like normal typeface stands for dark and scary, and bold typeface means funny. The story is decent, but it can get boring at times, and it sometimes gets gory and bloody without any reason. It's full of cliches, but I suppose it's excusable since it's supposed to be a fairy tale, and fairy tales are the origin of cliches( Hero fighting a dragon, anybody?)I'd say the Author's side commentary is the only thing that saves this book.
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