The Daughters Grimm [Mass Market Paperback]

Minda Webber (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2008

When the Sisters Grimm are invited to the Black Forest by their eccentric aunt, little do they know they will soon be finding marriage matches beyond their wildest dreams.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Love Spell (July 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0505527715
• ISBN-13: 978-0505527714
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #937,632 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars amusing historical, July 19, 2008

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Daughters Grimm (Mass Market Paperback)

In spite of her husband being a baron, the Grimm family matriarch is concerned with the prospects of her children as they lack funds. She pushes her oldest daughters to make a good match, which means title and wealth not love. However, every Tom, Dick and prince who comes by, all prefer blonde heiresses as none choose either Greta or Rae. Even the frogs they find dumped in their beds alas remains amphibians.

Their Prussian bully Aunt Vivian invites Rae and Greta to visit her at her barony Snowe Manor in the Black Forest, which they do. Rae meets a widowed Baron and his horde of children and Greta falls in love with an obnoxious Prince not charming. However, with their aunt acting amorally abhorrent, each sister still wonders if they found their fairy tale romance or are they going to end up like the ogress in a nightmarish fable.

The latest fractured fairy tale romance from Minda Webber Here (see THE REINVENTED MISS BLUEBIRD, THE REMARKABLE MISS FRANKENSTEIN and THE RELUCTANT MISS VAN HELSING) is an amusing historical. The story line is lighthearted fun with most of the amusement coming from Aunt Vivian. Fans of Ms. Webber will enjoy her latest jocular jaunt as THE DAUGHTERS GRIMM seek happily ever after.

Harriet Klausner

3.0 out of 5 stars Not up to my expectation but still good., October 8, 2008

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Monica Garcia "ReadingWithMonie.com" (Arlington, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Daughters Grimm (Mass Market Paperback)

When Grimm sisters Greta and the beautiful, but extremely vain Rae, fail to find husbands in eighteenth-century Cornwall, Greta writes to her aunt in Prussia for help. Aunt Vivian delights in being able to be the one who finds suitable husbands for the girls and sends for them so that she can debut them in Prussian society. But Vivian isn't doing it to help the girls; she's merely doing it to irritate her sister by proving that the girls can easily find husbands with the right guidance.

In the middle of searching for the perfect husband Greta is drawn to the Black Forest to search out answers to all the paranormal oddities happening lately. There she hopes to find proof that vampires, witches, werewolves and other creatures of the night really do exist. When Rae meets a widowed Baron and Greta meets a handsome Prince you have to wonder if it'll be happily ever after or did the girls get themselves into a hairy situation?

I thought the book was cute and I loved all the pop culture references mixed with historical characters. The plot seemed to drag on just a little too much but I like how the story ended. I would recommend this book to paranormal romance readers like fans of MaryJanice Davidson's Queen Betsy series.

3.0 out of 5 stars a voice teacher and early music fan who loves to read, July 30, 2008

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George Peabody "Ariel" (U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Daughters Grimm (Mass Market Paperback)

TOO MANY QUIPS SPOIL THE PLOT!!!!
This could have been an excellent 'read' but there were just too too many witticisms and overt attempts to be funny and clever at the same time. They overpowered a perfectly good story line that did not need all of them. If you compare this book to, for example, 'The Remarkable Miss Frankenstein' or 'The Reluctant Miss Van Helsing' it falls very short in quality.

Moreover, when an author uses real people in her stories, she should be correct historically, regardless of the type of book it is. For example,the book states that the composer Mozart did not like to hear the name Tschaikovsky, but since Mozart died in 1791 and Tshaikovsky was not born until 1840, I hardly think his name would have been mentioned by anyone at that time AND it was also stated at one point in the story that Mozart hated the music of Beethoven, but Beethoven was only 11 years old when Mozart died, so there would have been little or no music at this point for him to hear. It's things like this that cheapen a book, in my opinion.

BUT I did read all of it, and enjoyed it somewhat, but I kept thinking as the abundance or 'jokes' increased how much more I would have liked it if the plot was dominant! I hope the next one is 'quipless'.