Review // The Council of Mirrors Sisters Grimm Book Nine

by Michael Buckley

Just so you know, the actual cover is a lot more attractive than the picture. I've been reading this series since third grade, and I had to finish it even if I'm well over the target age. Hey, finals are coming up, and I'm not really in the mood to read something too strenuous.

Quick series recap and no spoilers if you haven't read it. Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sisters whose lives took a turn for the crazy when their parents go missing. They're put into a series of terrible foster homes and have always managed to escape their evil guardians until they move to Ferryport Landing to live with their Granny Relda. The town is not as it seems. The people in it are all from fairytales Sabrina and Daphne had read. They find out that all the fairytales are true, more or less. That the works of writers like the the brothers Grimm and Hans Christen Anderson weren't stories, but documents and diaries of things that actually happened. The best part is that Sabrina and Daphne are the descendants of the brothers Grimm.

Long ago all of the fairytale characters were trapped in Ferryport Landing to keep them away from the rest of the world, but now some of them want freedom. They want out. They call themselves the Scarlet Hand, and they are responsible for kidnapping Sabrina and Daphne's parents. In this final book, Sabrina and Daphne will face the head of the Hand and hopefully win.

I didn't want to reread the whole series just for this last book, but I kind of wish I had. It's been a few years since the previous book came out, and a lot of the book harkened back to things I just didn't remember.

Once I got past the not really knowing what was going on part, I really enjoyed it. It's just a really cute fairytale read for elementary and middle graders (and apparently high schoolers). I think it was a nice end to the series, and if you're looking for a cutesy summer read you should definitely check out this book and the other nine that come before it.