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UnEnchanted
by Chanda Hahn
I'm not sure how to feel about this one.
UnEnchanted has a pretty great premise, and one that's probably fairly common but that I haven't seen a lot of. It's a girl trapped to relive the Brothers Grimm fairytales because she is their descendant and is forced to live out her family's curse.
The way this is revealed is done in an interesting way. On a class field trip, she saves her crush, the school's golden boy, from falling over a ledge. This is the beginning of the first fairytale she has to conquer. It's only a few days later that her mother actually bothers to tell her about the curse.
It's pretty easy to discern which fairytales Mina is going through, although I've never heard of the one with the stag and the bull. Still, the clues are very much there, and she's a little slow for not being able to pick up on them immediately.
Unfortunately, Mina turns out to be much more of a damsel in distress character than I like to see in this type of story. There are two boys who are more of the heroes, and this is the role Mina expects them to play, so much that she is reluctant to do anything for herself because the Story is directing her to be helpless. I'm not a huge fan the way this is written, especially because the major players are high school freshmen or sophomores.
I will be the first to ask for a good plot twist, but the way [a:Chanda Hahn|5441556|Chanda Hahn|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1446580221p2/5441556.jpg] implements this is questionable at best. Much of the book is very predictable, but the ending has more of a twist and is kind of uncomfortable and doesn't make a lot of sense.
Personally, I think this novel has a lot to do with fate and free will, where fate and perceived fate plays too much of a role in the character's lives and interpersonal relationships. The ending honestly did change all my views on what this story was actually about, and what to expect in the sequel.
I am not sure whether I want to continue this story. It's definitely not the type of book where I want to go out and buy the sequel right away, but it's something I might find myself coming back to. I liked this enough, but there were certainly flaws.
UnEnchanted has a pretty great premise, and one that's probably fairly common but that I haven't seen a lot of. It's a girl trapped to relive the Brothers Grimm fairytales because she is their descendant and is forced to live out her family's curse.
The way this is revealed is done in an interesting way. On a class field trip, she saves her crush, the school's golden boy, from falling over a ledge. This is the beginning of the first fairytale she has to conquer. It's only a few days later that her mother actually bothers to tell her about the curse.
It's pretty easy to discern which fairytales Mina is going through, although I've never heard of the one with the stag and the bull. Still, the clues are very much there, and she's a little slow for not being able to pick up on them immediately.
Unfortunately, Mina turns out to be much more of a damsel in distress character than I like to see in this type of story. There are two boys who are more of the heroes, and this is the role Mina expects them to play, so much that she is reluctant to do anything for herself because the Story is directing her to be helpless. I'm not a huge fan the way this is written, especially because the major players are high school freshmen or sophomores.
I will be the first to ask for a good plot twist, but the way [a:Chanda Hahn|5441556|Chanda Hahn|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1446580221p2/5441556.jpg] implements this is questionable at best. Much of the book is very predictable, but the ending has more of a twist and is kind of uncomfortable and doesn't make a lot of sense.
Personally, I think this novel has a lot to do with fate and free will, where fate and perceived fate plays too much of a role in the character's lives and interpersonal relationships. The ending honestly did change all my views on what this story was actually about, and what to expect in the sequel.
I am not sure whether I want to continue this story. It's definitely not the type of book where I want to go out and buy the sequel right away, but it's something I might find myself coming back to. I liked this enough, but there were certainly flaws.