UnEnchanted (An Unfortunate Fairy Tale, #1)

by Chanda Hahn

Mina Grime is unlucky, unpopular and uncoordinated; until she saves her crush's life on a field trip, changing her High School status from loser to hero overnight. But with her new found fame brings misfortune in the form of an old family curse come to light. For Mina is descended from the Brothers Grimm and has inherited all of their unfinished fairy tale business. Which includes trying to outwit a powerful Story from making her it's next fairytale victim.

To break the fairy tale curse on her family and make these deadly occurrences stop, Mina must finish the tales until the very Grimm end.

• ISBN10: 1795529253
• ISBN13: 9781795529259
• Publish Date: 31 January 2019 (first published 18 April 2012)
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Independently Published
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 226
• Language: English

Reviews

[Baroness Book Trove]

UnEnchanted by Chanda Hahn is a wonderfully written tale about being a Brothers Grimm Descendant.

Maybe being cursed isn't all that cracked up to be?

Mina Grime, aka Mina Grimm

Mina Grime has lived her whole life without knowing who she indeed was. That is until the fateful day when the family curse finally catches up to her. See, Mina has been unlucky her entire life and keeps telling herself that she's just cursed. Without genuinely knowing that she is cursed. Both she and her little brother are cursed. Well, that is unless Mina can break the curse. Mina must finish all the fairy tales that her ancestors started but never finished. Each Grimm that the curse has Chosen needs to complete the tales. Mina as a character is fantastic. I understood her insecureness and the way that she is. She is a teenager written during 2012/2013, and I remember what it was like being a teenager in high school who didn't have many friends.

The Story

Mina Grime is pushed into a world where a paranormal entity forces each Grimm descendant Chosen to finish. But there is a catch that I won't say because you need to read the book. It's a great book that makes you think, what if I happened to be in Mina's shoes and this whole thing happened to me? I would have reacted the same way and been reacting the same way each time a new fairy tale story popped into my life.

Five Stars

UnEnchanted by Chanda Hahn is the first book in the Unfortunate Fairy Tale series. I can't wait to pop back into to see what else happens for poor Mina Grimm. Oh, oops, Mina Grime, as her whole school knows her as. I think that Ms. Hahn has done a fantastic job with this series, which is excellent. Hopefully, everything works out well for Mina and her brother.

I am giving this book five stars and a recommendation to anyone that likes a YA Fairy Tales Folklore Fantasy type book.

Unfortunate Fairy Tale Series

Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of UnEnchanted by Chanda Hahn.

Until the next time,



Happy Reading!

This review was originally posted on Baroness' Book Trove

[Chelsea]

Initial Thoughts

How cool does that summary sound? I thought it seemed awesome too! I love anything to do with fairy tales and I can’t get tired of them. I love seeing new ways authors retell them. This one is different where that character has to live all the fairy tales so I was pretty excited to see what happened.

My New BFF

Nan was easily my favourite character. All the others were really boring and lacked any dimension. Nan was the only one confident and easy going. I found her much better than the main character Mina who was the typical ordinary, clumsy, and shy girl. I’m getting a little tired of that. Plus Mina spent most of the book moping around being unsure of herself. That really bothered me.

My Crush

I liked Jared in this book even though we didn’t see him often. His character was lacking a lot of information though because we know nothing about him except that’s he’s supposed to be important somehow. I thought the author could have at least given us some more background information on him.

Writing Style

One thing that really bothered me and I’m seeing it bothered others too, is that there was no editing done to this book. There were spelling mistakes and grammar errors and even some sentences were structured weird. I’m sure even a family member of the author could have read the book and noticed these mistakes.

Another thing that bothered me was the characters. They were all very two dimensional and had almost no personality. The main character Mina was your typical protagonist who was shy and didn’t fit it until she started seeing the popular guy in school. Then she focused more of her time of him than her task that she was supposed to do. Even the male lead was extremely boring and never made any sense to me. It seemed like he was just around for some fluff.

Closing Thoughts

I feel like this story had so much potential and the author ruined it. I’d like to keep reading the series to see if it gPostsets better though. The plot had a lot of fluff in it so if you’re more interested in how much Nan tweets as opposed to the actually curse part then this is the book for you. I’m actually a little disappointed with this book right now but I really, really want to finish the story on a good note. Let’s hope book two turned out better!

[Berls]

This review appeared first at Fantasy is More Fun."

3.5 Stars
UnEnchanted had my attention from the get-go because of Mina, the main character. She's so clumsy and accident prone, which I know all about. In just the first chapter, her clumsy nature shines through and made me love her. I also got a glimpse of her family - including a little brother, Charlie, who doesn't speak (should be able to, but never has - it's something the doctors don't fully understand) and a mother, Sarah - and knew I would love them too.

But after that first little bit, it took me a while to really want to sit down and read UnEnchanted. Partly because I just was in an audiobook mood and partly because I was busy with Christmas preparations.

When I finally focused on reading UnEnchanted, I ended up really enjoying it - though little things made it somewhat frustrating at times. There were little details that just didn't work for me - like why is the richest boy in the state going to the same public school as one of the poorest?

Thankfully, some of the things that just don't jive find an explanation towards the end (but not all of them), which was unexpected and nice. So stick with it on some of those eye-roll moments.

What made UnEnchanted really enjoyable, besides the characters, was the somewhat unique spin on the fairy tales and the Grimm brothers. I don't want to spoil it for you, so I'll just say it was fun and kept me guessing the whole time.

That's the main reason I plan to continue this series - I love being kept on my toes and guessing things. The way it ended I'm already super curious about the next book (but its not really a cliff hanger). I also appreciated that, despite being YA and having a very high school setting, Unenchanted never felt overly angsty or immature.

I'm really glad UnEnchanted was selected for My TBR read and look forward to continuing the series. Now that things are explained, I expect it will only get better.

[Danielle Ackley-McPhail]

This is a really well-written book and I like the author's take on transforming the traditional faerie tales. I enjoyed the read but really find myself disappointed at the end because of the lack of closure. This is clearly the first in an on-going series and handles that transition well, but as a reader these types of endings leave me frustrated. Even with a series I prefer each book to have some satisfying sense of ending, rather than just feeling like the pause button has been pressed. Unfortunately this is becoming a common trend in fiction these days and not necessarily a flaw, so don't take this as a criticism of the author's skill at storytelling or writing, those talents are clearly established with this book. My preference in endings is a personal taste. I love on-going series but feel much happier when each book can also stand on its own as a complete an satisfying adventure. Too much is left unresolved here and the way the author has set up the premise of the book, it seems it is likely meant to be a LONG series.

Well worth the read, though.

[clairelm]

Brilliant and gripping, I loved this book. If anything, I feel it was too short because now I have to go find the next one to carry on!