The Sisters Grimm

Hi! I am back, (obviously), and I have started reading a book called The Sisters Grimm. I have to thank Patrick Gardner for this, because he gave me the first 2 books in the series for my birthday. So far, there are two sisters (hence the name, Sisters Grimm), Sabrina and Daphne. Sabrina is 11 and Daphne is 7. About a year ago, their parents mysteriously disappeared. So their family attorney has been chouffering the sisters around, trying to find different foster homes for them to go in. So far, all of them have been bad. Then they find their long-lost granny (who has been believed to be dead by the girls) in a newspaper ad. The family attorney drives them over and drops them off. Their granny is sort of strange so far, and their granny's butler, Mr. Crim, is even creepier. Once they get to the house, the girls unpack, have dinner, and go to bed. In the middle of the night, Daphne gets up and sees some small lights out the window. Sabrina is still asleep, so Daphne gets up and opens the window. Sabrina wakes up and yells at Daphne. They try to close the window, but it is stuck. They turn around and see Mr. Crim standing in the doorway. He looks angry. He comes in, yells at them, closes the window, and nails it shut. He tells them to, "Never let anyone or anything into this house!" Just as he turns around, the girls see a small figure sitting in the woods, playing the flute. Sabrina blinked, and it was gone. She thinks something fishy is going on.

I think that so far, this book has been pretty interesting. I say this because in the beginning, it is suspenseful when the girls are going to meet their granny. Truthfully, I thought that the granny wasn't going to show up at first. Also, I think that something fishy is going on, because they saw the small lights, and Mr. Crim and their granny were extremely strict on the fact that they were not supposed to let anything into their house. I also thought it was kind of suspicious that they saw a small "person", if you will, sitting in a tree. Then the next second, it was gone. I think that they might be fairies or pixies, because the title of the book is The Sisters Grimm; Book 1, The Fairy Detectives. Also, when their granny is laying down the rules in the beginning, she mentions a locked closet that is to stay locked at all times. She says that the girls might hear some strange noises coming from the closet, but they are to ignore the noises and keep the door locked tightly. I think that maybe the granny is a fairy detective/hunter and she finds the fairies and/or pixies and locks them in the closet. Later on in the book, she probably introduces the girls to fairy hunting. So far, this book has been fairly odd and suspicious, but on a scale from 1-10, (10 being wonderful and 1 being repulsive), I have to give this book an 8. I give it a high rating because it was suspenseful and interesting when the girls were finding out about the closet. I don't give it a 9 or 10 because I haven't read all that much of the book, and I think it could be better.
If I were the author, I would make the granny not show up when the girls are scheduled to meet her. Then, it would be even more suspicious because the girls know that their granny is dead, because their parents told them so. And, they would have to go searching for her. Once they found whoever was posing as their granny, they would have to do some research on who this woman is.
I also think that since the granny is supposedly dead, but she is actually there, it is kind of weird. I think that eventually, they will find out that this is just some old random lady who is crazy. I think that they will find out that she escaped from her mental institute. I'm serious! This lady is weird! When they were leaving the house to go shopping, she knocked on the door and said "We're just going out for a while, we'll be back". The girls asked her who she was talking to, and she said that she was talking to the house. I'm not even joking. She said that as if it were the most normal thing in the universe.
Overall, this is a pretty interesting book. I hope it will be exciting soon. I also hope that they will see more strange figures in the woods.

-Erin

*I commented on Sam Lisak's blog.