The Inside Story

In the acknowledgments at the beginning of this, book 8 in the series, Michael Buckley comments that it was the hardest of all to write. And once I was reading it I could see why. The Inside Story starts off with Daphne and Sabrina, lost in a fairy tale in the book of Everafter. Puck, Mirror, Pinocchio and their baby brother are nowhere to be seen, and Sabrina is being plagued by indecision and small panic attacks from Mirrors evil revelation. If Puck hadn't appeared by the end of the chapter I might have been cruelly disappointed by book 8, but he did! And between him and Daphne they kept up the amusing banter that always has me laughing out loud and quickly recouped the story for me.

Puck, oh Puck....one of the greatest 11ish boys on show more earth...or at least in the realm of story characters. No seriously, I drive the hubby mad wanting to read all of Pucks lines to him. He kills me! For instance, wanting to keep the headless horseman's smelly rotten head for his mantelpiece, obviously it would be a conversation piece. Particularly funny in The Inside Story, is Puck's determination that marrying Sabrina won't be that bad, everyone needs a wifely slave, and he spends most of the book planning the wedding, a very Pucktastic wedding (as Daphne would say).

A slower book than The Everafter War, I still enjoyed it thoroughly (I did cruise through it in two days after all), though I noticed it had a definite added sparkle once Granny Relda showed up towards the end; I hadn't realised I'd been missing her up until that point. For a story which branches off from the majority of its usual characters, as well as it's usual location it's no wonder Michael Buckley found it hard to write, but he did a great job.

Now my only worry is the to be concluded at the end! show less

The series picks back up with this eighth book after several lackluster installments.

As Sabrina, Daphne, & Puck chase Mirror and unnamed Baby Grimm (not for lack of suggestions from Daphne) through the Book of Everafter, Buckley treats us to a collage of fairy tales that the interlopers ruin in various ways with strange living erasers -- "revisers" -- chasing behind them to erase all their changes.

Puck's many jokes about his & Sabrina's impending marriage are hilarious and (in Daphne-speak) "Pucktastic."

I just hope the conclusion is as good as this penultimate book.

Great series, but this one installment really meanders on and on through too many fairy-tale steps. I don't want to say more to avoid SPOILER, but this one particular installment is a disappointment and I've given all the other installments (1 through 7) 5*****. Still, stuff happens in here that's going to be necessary for the concluding volume, so it has to be read.

I started reading this series and now I'm so far into it, that I'm stuck until it ends. (Please tell me it's going to end!)Unfortunately, with the later books, I have a lot of trouble concentrating. This book was better than the last one in that respect, but still had its moments of 'get on with it already'. Except that getting on with it is sort of the problem.There's a lot of plot and a lot of action, and my brain just shuts off. I suspect it's a boy type of story and I need more of a girl type of story. I need more time to sit down with the characters. I need a slower pace. I need fewer things to happen and more reaction to the things that happen.Oh, I suppose I should say what the book is about. The Grimm girls are fairy tale show more detectives, and in this book they're chasing down a bad guy who's kidnapped their baby brother. And they're doing so in a sort of master book of stories. So they go to Oz and and Mowgli's Jungle and things like that.Which is an interesting premise that's not used to its full advantage. Or, well, maybe just not used how I would use it.Anyway, just as the story starts getting really interesting and good again.. it ends. To be continued in the next book.So. Sigh. Mostly I guess I'd recommend it to kids who like plot who want/need to read more with female main characters. show less

This book just flies! I rather wish it would slow down for more of Puck's changes and hijinks (Yes, Goodreads, that is a word). But the story is for children, who would probably not enjoy it as much as I would. Suffice it to say, I want the next one (and the end!) soon.

Sabrina, Daphne and Puck track Pinocchio and Mirror through the Book of Everafter. Fairy tale characters changing the stories inside a book of fairy tales — is this fairy tale Inception? A fun entry to the series, with great character development and a theme of destiny vs choices that plays out in multiple ways throughout the story.

This series continues with another exciting installment in which Sabrina, Daphne and Puck enter the original fairytales themselves in order to track down the mirror and save their brother from being possessed by him. As always very compelling, funny, and exciting, yet its very clearly a filler book, building up to the big conclusion, so not much actually is learnt and the book itself is shorter than its predecessors. Overall, slightly disapointing but Im eagerly awaiting the next one.