PJV Quickie: The fact that this book had so many four and five star ratings left me scratching my head and thinking “did we read the same book?”
Title: UnEnchanted
Author: Chanda Hahn
Type: Young Adult Paranormal
Published: Published 2011 by Chanda Hahn
Source: Amazon Kindle Freebie
Rating: 
Deal or Duped? Duped
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Review:
As far as ideas goes, Chanda Hahn did a good job with brainstorming this one. The story is about a young girl that is the descendent of the Grimm brothers. Mina Grimes, otherwise known as Mina Grimm is faced with a curse that has haunted her family for generations. She has to act out fairy tales and try to “beat” them. The Grimm brothers got through most of them, but succumbed in the end. No one has ever lived through all 200. Mina a usually insecure and clutzy teen decides that she’ll embrace the curses and finish them.
If you can look past the lack of editing and use of spell-check, I guess you could enjoy the book. I did try to look past it, because this was a Free Self-Published book, I can’t expect that much right? But, then I was faced with a highly insecure main character that grated on me every time she assumed incorrectly, but then would suddenly become empowered when it came to the curse. Then there was the love-interest, who was like this shining star of a white-knight, going from dating the head cheerleader to panting over this hoodie wearing, drenched, stained and stuttering Mina. It didn’t strike me as real. Then the over-zealous friend that kept tweeting out pictures of Mina. Didn’t ring true either. The most talked about plot of this book was that chick’s phone and her 200 twitter followers.
The dialogue was juvenile.The plot was not properly flushed out. The series seems like a never-ending fiasco, considering she has to go through 200 fairy tales. The editing was horrendous.The characters were two-dimensional.
The only reason this book didn’t hit the DNF pile was because of the interesting concept. I do believe most adults would find this book too juvenile and poorly polished to merit a good read.
Recommendations:
If you can look past the bad writing I think younger teens might enjoy. Fans of fairy tales.
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Uh-oh. Bad writing is the top reason why I DNF books. Thanks for the honest review. I have it on my Kindle and was planning to read it next week….
I was hopeful about this book when I downloaded it the other day to my Kindle app. I’ll still probably give it a try since I like the concept, but I’ll be prepared for its faults.
Oh sad day. This one looked like it could have been good.
I really get upset when self-published authors don’t use editors. And of course, there is no excuse for not using spell-check.
It drives me nuts when every single FREEBIE special has only 4 or 5 star reviews. I stopped reading the other reviews before buying these books and just stuck with reading the first chapter on my kindle. If it sucks – delete.
Yipes. This book did not sound entertaining at all.
Glad I haven’t wasted any time on this one, may still give it a try but only after I get through the stuff I want to read.
Funny I haven’t gotten to writing my review for this book yet but I liked the book.
Ouch. Oh well. I can overlook SOME spelling errors in the freebies. I just read one though where there were so many that I started counting them and it became distracting. To the point where I forgot about the plot.
Oh, that’s to bad you never checked out my blog. The newly edited book was released on Kindle Sept 21st. and it was edited by my agent. It takes a few months for it to filter through to Bn and Itunes. But the editing mess was why the book was FREE! And because the unedited version was downloaded 300K I will continue to keep the book FREE in hopes people will redownload the edited version.
TTFN