In a Glass Grimmly

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Companion to: A tale dark & Grimm.
Frog joins cousins Jack and Jill in leaving their own stories to seek a magic mirror, encountering such creatures as giants, mermaids, and goblins along the way. Based in part on fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.

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awesome submitted by bookworm12345 on June 17, 2013, 1:23pm awesome book. Great companion to A tale Dark And Grimm

Grimm, but not great submitted by FordAlpha on June 28, 2018, 10:01pm Like "A Tale Dark and Grimm", "In a Glass Grimmly" has plenty of blood and gore and peril. "Glass", however, has much less Grimm. In the earlier novel, Adam Gidwitz rather faithfully retold several tales from the Brothers Grimm, tweaking just enough to weave the separate tales into a cohesive plot and theme. Here, he draws on a wide variety of sources, including not only Grimm tales but also Hans Christian Andersen, Joseph Jacobs, the English poet Christina Rossetti, Mother Goose rhymes, and even the New Testament (which supplies the title and conceptual theme) (what, no Perrault?). With such disparate sources of inspiration, Gidwitz is really making up most of the story himself this time (he acknowledges as much in the afterword), and the seams really show. Moreover, Jack's and Jill's ever-after fate in "Glass" turns out to be pretty much exactly the same as Hansel's and Gretel's in "Tale", which I found disappointingly unimaginative.