A review by artemistics
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

3.0

mostly very strange. at times kinda antisemitic. very silly as well. i'm not sure if the way i read it was the best, mostly because a lot of the stories logically follow the same rules of 3, with similar archetypes, beat-for-beat identical in a lot of cases; there were loads of evil stepmothers, and talking animals, and glass mountains, and disguised princes and princesses, and cheating siblings, and certainly a ton of people named hans. it was fun, in a way, to see the repetition and similarities between certain tales, and wonder how the different stories must have morphed in time and from mouth to mouth throughout history until they became different enough to warrant distinction. the whimsy was always present, and this edition's illustrations were absolutely gorgeous.