“Where fairy tales come to life with dark, deadly twists...
"Tell me again, Grandmère, the story of how I die."
The Midnight Forest. The Fanged Creature. Two fortune-telling cards that spell an untimely death for 17-year-old Clara. Despite the ever-present warning from her fortune-teller grandmother, Clara embarks on a dangerous journey into the deadly Forest Grimm to procure a magical book - Sortes Fortunae , the Book of Fortunes - with the power to reverse the curse on her village and save her mother.
Years ago, when the villagers whispered their deepest desires to the book, its pages revealed how to obtain them. All was well until someone used the book for an evil purpose―to kill another person. Afterward, the branches of the Forest Grimm snatched the book away, the well water in Grimm’s Hollow turned rancid, and the crops died from disease. The villagers tried to make amends with the forest, but every time someone crossed its border, they never returned.
Now, left with no alternative, Clara and her close friend, Axel―who is fated never to be with her―have set their minds to defying fate and daring to accomplish what no one else has been able to before. But the forest―alive with dark, deadly twists on some of our most well-known fairy tales―has a mind of its own.” - taken from Goodreads.
I was not expecting this book to be a mashup of Grimm’s fairy tales, but I do think it works. Clara is determined to save her mother from the Forest Grimm, even if it costs her her life. She knows it will because her grandmother’s tarot card readings have always foretold her death. Armed with the knowledge to get past the deadly forest’s border, she and her friend Axel tempt fate on their journey to the Forest Grimm.
Book two, The Deathly Grimm, is set to be published in 2024.
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