Review: #108
Title: Grimm's Fairy Tales
Series: Puffin Classics
Author: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Read Before: no
My Comments: A compilation of a lot of fairy tales that the Brothers Grimm collected, in their original form (well, translated into English), which is surprisingly really different to the stories as they are now. Most of the ones were really short and I had never heard of before, while others, like Hansel and Grettel and The Frog Prince were very different. It was an insightful read, and the latter (longer) stories were more interesting but a lot of things did not make sense. About halfway you tend to see the common structure and elements in most of the stories, such as singing the same rhyme multiple times, princes finding princesses (always the younger prince is the one that will succeed) and how the protagonist meets another person who helps them on their way. Some stories were quite weird and didn't make much sense, so overall, it wasn't particularly great or bad, but it was nice reading the original fairy tales.
Rating: 5/10