Buckley, Michael. The Sisters Grimm: The Fairytale Detectives. 2005. J FIC BUC
Daphne and Sabrina Grimm have been shuttled from foster home to foster home since their parents mysteriously disappeared a year and a half ago. When they are brought to Fairyport Landing, to live with a woman who claims to be their grandmother, Sabrina plans for them to escape, just as they have before. After all, their grandmother is supposed to be dead, and the woman seems crazy. She cooks Technicolor spaghetti. She locks her front door with dozens of locks. She talks to her house. She has books with titles like 365 Ways to Cook Dragon. And she appears to believe in giants. But as the story progresses, evidence surfaces to suggest that perhaps their granny isn’t so crazy after all.
p. 61- 63: description of house destroyed in giant’s footprint
But giants are just the beginning. Soon Sabrina and Daphne find themselves face to face with pixies, princes, good witches, bad witches, and policemen that turn into pigs. Pick up The Sister’s Grimm: The Fairy-tale Detectives to find out how Fairyport Landing got to be so full of fairytale characters- and why so many of them want Sabrina and Daphne dead.
Yay: Lots of humor mixed with deeper issues: Freedom, family, how to trust when your trust has been betrayed umpteen billion times, Good guys that seem like bad guys, bad guys who seem like good guys…
Boo: Have we had our fill of fractured fairy tales yet? I’ve heard plenty of people rage at Peter Jackson for his seemingly trying to add more dimension to Faramir’s character in The Lord of the Rings by making him flirt pretty heavily with evil (and then inexplicably give it up). Sometimes, can’t the good guys just be good guys? Don’t we need a little heroism now and then? Something to look up to?
Verdict: Overall, while amusing and engaging, it seemed a little stale. I am told that the books get better as the series progresses and the politics of Fairyport Landing are developed.
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