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The Grimm Chronicles, Vol. 2 (The Grimm Chronicles Box Set) Kindle Edition

by Ken Brosky (Author), Isabella Fontaine (Author), Chris Smith (Illustrator), Format: Kindle Edition

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Book 2 of 4: The Grimm Chronicles

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For 200 years, the hero’s magic pen has been passed on from generation to generation. The newest hero is Alice Goodenough, an 18-year-old junior from Washington High School. While her friends spent their summer working and having fun, Alice found herself doing battle with creatures most human beings don’t even realize exist. A giant snake. A blood-sucking prince. A terrifying half-man, half-hedgehog. Dastardly dwarfs intent on mind-controlling everyone who uses a cell phone.

Now, senior year has begun. With it comes a new challenge at school, where bullies have grown bolder and classes more challenging. As if that’s not enough, Alice must face off against a collection of Corrupted who all share a terrible secret, one that might awaken a creature capable of doing untold damage. To uncover the secret, Alice will have to face off against a man-eating lizard, a bloodthirsty sea captain, and a mysterious wizard who can see into the future …

This book contains the following episodes:

Episode Four: The Orphanage of Doom

After facing off with the dreaded dwarf named Sam Grayle, Alice finds her dreams plagued by two separate visions. In one, she's floating through a massive mansion filled with old, dusty furniture and drafty windows. Shadows dance across the wall. Children cry out in terror. A mysterious animal growl echoes through the halls.

In her second dream, a terrible smoke-like creature roams the streets of Minneapolis, feeding off human victims while it plots a terrible revenge that threatens to have far-reaching consequences. Alice must decide which dream to pursue: does she foil the smoke-creature's plot or try to rescue the children from an unseen evil?

Episode five: Blood and Thunder

Upon making a surprising discovery in a Corrupted's lair, Alice finds herself torn between her responsibilities as the hero and her desire to live a normal life. She's been granted a unique opportunity to leave the entire world of the hero behind. But before she can make her ultimate
choice, her nightmares return ...

A ship is coming. And aboard that ship is one of the most terrifying Corrupted creatures Alice has faced yet. In order to face her foe, Alice will have to do without the help of her scorned friend, Br'er Rabbit.

At school, a miraculous recovery by the star of the baseball team prompts more questions, all of them bringing Alice back to that fateful encounter at the orphanage of doom. To make matters worse, a school bully has taken his terrorizing too far, a friend is in trouble, and the mysterious ship in Alice's nightmare holds a terrible secret ...

Episode six: The Order of the Golden Dragon

Three mysterious golden coins. What is their purpose? Alice must find out, and in order to do so, she will need to use all of the skills she's learned so far. She cannot fail. Failure means a fate worse than death.

Agnim the Mage haunts her dreams, using his terrible black magic to plague Alice with nightmares. Once a character in the Grimms' fairy tales, his magical powers have stronger and stronger the more Corrupted he has become. He has foreseen a cataclysmic event that could mean the end of the world, and only the hero stands in his way. But in order to stop him, Alice will have to find him. And soon. Before Agnim steals her sanity and destroys her mind.

Agnim knows her weakness. He knows her fears. He controls her dreams. He is the most dangerous Corrupted Alice has ever faced. There is no guarantee she can defeat him.

In these trying times, only one thing is certain:

The Golden Dragon will awaken.

Bonus material:

The Lost Journal of Eugene Washington
Assorted fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm
A Legacy of Red

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"Each story perfectly continues right where the previous ends and the Corrupted characters connect to one another to create a very engaging plot. My favorite of the episodes was "The Order of the Golden Dragon". I thought the Corrupted creatures were great and the way Chase, Seth, and Briar all help Alice was wonderful. I also liked the side story of taking a stand against bullying. Alice is a very strong character. Even though she had her moments of self-doubt, she realized she's didn't have to change just so others would like her. I LOVE LOVE LOVE that she's not a whiny, melodramatic, weak girl. She kicks butt and stands up for herself and others. I also LOVE that there isn't a teen love triangle in sight." -- Bookies Book reviews

"These new stories are just as unique and exciting as the ones in the first volume. Extra bonus, we have some Melville thrown in there for good measure. As a lit. major, I loved that added in there!" - Proud Book Nerd

"The Grimm Chronicles are entertaining and a fun read for people who love the fairy tales of Grimm. I think if you know them very well it can be fun to try and guess which of the Corrupted go in which stories" - My Book Chest

"Volume 2 lived up to my expectations. Alice is still a spunky heroine who can exhibit her courage, her intelligence, and her limitations as a teenager and human in turn. Briar also continues to be fantastic--cute, funny, and heroic, as well. I am already adopting his habit of referring to a certain search engine as "The Google" in his honor because it's hilarious. Now I just need to convince more of my friends to read these books so they're in on the joke and stop staring at me oddly." - Pages Unbound

About the Author

Ken Brosky received his MFA in writing from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. He's had more than a dozen short stories published in various literary magazines and teaches English at various colleges around Wisconsin.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00BGIL4U0
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brew City Press (December 5, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 5, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2114 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 544 pages

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I received my MFA in fiction writing from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. I've had over a dozen short stories published, but my main focus now is Young Adult books. My previous series, The Grimm Chronicles, is an award-winning (really!) fantasy adventure series about a hero who must vanquish the monsters of Grimm's Fairy Tales.

My newest series is The Earth-X Chronicles, a YA sci-fi adventure that spans time and space. Alien ghosts, backstabbing clans, and mysterious keepers of knowledge all conspire to make this an entertaining series! I'm so excited about it that I just swallowed my gum!

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Gorelenore

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Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2013

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Background: Volume 2 of the Grimm Chronicles follows our hero Alice Goodenough through her modern day crime fighting against the corrupted fairy tale characters of the Grimm's Brothers. Alice must battle evil doers, a high school bully, a group of Mean girls and finish her last year in high school without dying or failing.

Review: Volume 2 was wonderful. I really enjoyed the characters that were showcased in these episodes more so than the ones in the first volume. In these episodes the Corrupted are all linked together in various ways and Alice and Briar Rabbit must figure out the underlying scheme. It was a mystery, a fairy tale, and an action flick all rolled into one (volume). I really enjoyed Alice's character growth and she becomes a stronger individual. She finds friends that support her for who she is. This volume also really linked her back to her age, high school bullies and just trying to get through it all. I think that made it more realistic when it needed to be, showing her fighting battles of fairy tales and real life. It was inspirational and important to her growth.

As for those characters/Corrupted I liked, they were more of the creepy, send shivers down your spine types, unlike Vol 1. These were spooky mysterious people, evil stepmothers who burn children for fun, and a thief. There were also some very much enjoyed laugh-out-loud points, that had me giggling and my husband asking what was up.

I very much enjoyed the series. I am actually excited to see that there also will be more, the ending of Volume 2 leaves a bit of a cliffhanger and I am interested to see how it goes.

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Bonnie Lynn Wagner

Buffy meets Grimm in this exciting new series!

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2013

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To keep things as spoiler-free as possible (which is hard when you consider the fact that the first two volumes ofThe Grimm Chronicles spans 6 of the 12 novellas making up the series), the series revolves around Alice, a girl who finds out that she's a hero. A hero is someone who comes along once in a generation (this reminds me of the way the Slayer is constantly reborn in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Series ) and is gifted with a magic pen and the ability to rid the world of fairy tale creatures gone wrong. The pen is more than it appears (Sort of think Riptide, The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) Literature Circle edition by Rick Riordan published by Scholastic Inc. (2005) [Paperback ]'s pen that becomes a sword), infused with magical ink that allows its heroic bearer to create tools able to vanquish the Corrupted. It's the very same pen used by the Brothers Grimm when creating their now-famous stories. The only problem? The same magic used to bring the stories to life and into the real world was dark, and over time, the characters have become corrupted. From minor characters we barely remember to the heroes, heroines, and villains of each tale, no one is exempt. It is Alice's destiny to rid the world of these characters; a hero can't rest until no character remains.

It was a lot of fun to see which fairy tales and characters were going to make an appearance in The Grimm Chronicles next. Sometimes, I was guessing for a while; there's definitely a factor of mystery involved as readers discover who the Corrupted are alongside Alice. Not every character we meet is evil, either, creating a complex, shadowed nuance not often seen. There's a lot of gray space and little black and white, which makes Alice's trials even more burdensome. The stories interconnect in arcs, and I liked seeing fairy tale characters pop up in earlier volumes only to come back in big ways later on. I also enjoyed the small nod to non-Grimm tales in the series, such as the way Alice (to me at least) pays tribute to Lewis Carroll, and while she is aided by a rabbit, it's the lesser-known Br'er Rabbit, which was a fun addition for me. Alice is a strong heroine who evolves and goes through a lot of character development as the series progresses.

I'd recommend buying the stories as compilations if you're starting out. There are a lot of fun goodies thrown in such as short stories, "lost" diaries from former heroes, and the referenced Brothers Grimm tales. While at time, sentences and dialogue felt very formal against the light, easy tone of Alice's voice as a narrator, the series was still easy to read and engaging. I like the formula Fontaine and Brosky are using and find the use of novella story arcs to be solid and easy to follow. While readers could jump into later volumes without having read earlier ones, it's encouraged to read from the beginning for a full understanding of the world of The Grimm Chronicles.

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Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2013

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I feel like Alice has grown in the second set of stories, yet still has more growing to do, which makes sense since she is still a teenager and learning everyday. I liked that a lot! It made Alice more realistic since she made mistakes but learned from them as well.
Many of the situations Alice faces (not the supernatural ones) are common themes that many children, teens, and even adults face everyday in society. And the authors did a great service by showing us how human Alice really is; she learned by trial and error the right way to face these problems.
I also enjoyed the fact that Alice's parents were more in the picture in this Volume and had some meaningful conversations from them as well. Although, I did get a little upset that they weren't more on Alice's side the first time about the altercation between her and Joey.
Besides having to save the world, orphans, and her friends, Alice faces the worst kind of peer pressure and the ways she handles it is a great moral incentive for the teens (or anyone for that matter) reading the stories. So yeah, I LOVED the morals we learn from this book in a fun way.
I think her friends, Seth and Briar, as long as some new characters introduced, help keep Alice grounded so the "hero" stuff don't go to her head. Chase seems like a pretty good guy and I like that he brings another perspective to the table for Alice to learn from.
The plot of the story is just plain good. It will keep you glued to the book,going from page to page until you are up in the early morning light, almost done with the novel. It flows so well I never wanted to put it down. I also liked that some Corrupted weren't quite as bad as others and that we learned some Corrupted's background on why they went bad.
If you are interested in stories with great morals, an uplifting and very personable heroine, and a theme that is really interesting this is the book you need to get. This is definitely a way for us adults to enjoy the fairy tales we loved as kids but with a twist that will keep you hooked from the beginning to the end.
Definitely five hearts~

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J. R. Vine

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 16, 2014

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Great read, I would definately read other books by this author

vikki Taylor

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 23, 2015

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Flawed but very readable fun

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 17, 2020

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Better than this first story arc, but still feels in need of a good edit to iron out inconsistencies in details and tone. I liked the second and third episodes here best because they played around with the fairy tale source material in an original way and built up the characters much better without trying to be too zany. Silly YA written-for-TV fantasy fun. Beware the cliffhangers!

Wendy

Entertaining

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 21, 2016

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Quite enjoyable, although I found a couple of things a bit irritating, which is why I only gave 4 stars.

Do youngsters in the USA really say "Oh Gawd"? and "Anywho" instead of "Anyhow"?

The other annoying Americanism is "couple" ....it's never a couple OF anything, just "couple drinks" or "couple plates" if you get my drift.

Apart from that there were some errors, but the book just needs editing.

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