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In a Glass Grimmly by Adam Gidwitz
4.0

There are more originals in this than the first one, though you can still see the inspiration from a variety of sources. (Gidwitz also offers an exhaustive note of inspiration/sources at the end.) The narrator is less prominent in the middle, which works especially because the stories are so absorbing.

There is still some blood, guts and gruesomeness but it doesn't overwhelm, I loved the talking frog, though I wish there had been some discussion of how he lived so long.