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I love puns. Minda Webber uses puns. Why can't I stand her books? Might it be because puns are OK when they are causually dropped in occasional places, but make you gag when used in every other sentence. I don't know if this woman can write a good story because, yet again, I was unable to make it to page 20 before throwing the book across the room in disgust. I find that the writer tries too hard to be punny and create characters that I have no desire to get to know. And she has a habit of pushing too hard, too early in the story, putting me in the position of never wanting to read another of her books.

I tried to read this book. I gave it a fair chance and even started it after finishing a book by a favorite author. But Minda Webber, while choosing topics that I find interesting, just isn't an author that I can stomach.

This is not profound literature by any means, but it was a light, fun read that is good to take to the beach. Over all, the story is predictable and some of the characters annoying. However, I like the idea of using familiar fairytales in different ways and enjoyed that aspect of the book.

FROM BACK COVER: In eighteenth-century Cornwall, life as a Grimm sister could be…well, grim. With six siblings all obsessed by fairy tales, it was hardly possible for a girl of delicate sensibilities to meet a prince, no matter how many frogs her brothers put in her bed.

But when an aunt invited the self-proclaimed beauty Rae, and Greta, her literary-minded sister, to the Black Forest, things started to shape up. Rae met a widowed baron and his children who made Schortz work of all her marital misgivings, and Greta fell for…a less-than-charming prince.

Still, even with all the paranormal oddities cropping up, life in this forest was better than being two Corny hens, and the hairier their situations got, the clearer it was to both sisters that, like Little Red Riding Hood, they'd stumbled onto a couple of wolves…and would love every minute of it.

**TITLE CHANGED TO 'THE DAUGHTERS GRIMM'. The book was enjoyable, but dragged a bit. I also started to get REALLY annoyed with one of the heroines. The ending was cute, but as a whole, I enjoyed her previous books more.**

This is the first book I've read from this series and it was pretty decent. I thought it was funny how the author slipped in different known historical characters and fairytale puns and quips as well as the fairytale references found in the characters names as well. I liked it well enough but I'm not racing out to buy others in the series.

Just noticed this--the ISBN brings up The Sisters Grimm--but the cover of my copy says The Daughters Grimm. Weird.