A review by _matthewdon_
A Grimm Warning by Chris Colfer

2.0

Heartbroken over [b:The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns|20828095|The Land of Stories The Enchantress Returns|Chris Colfer|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1394408229s/20828095.jpg|24790180]'s ending? Don't worry; there's a third installment in the quadrilogy! When I heard about this, I was so freaking excited I'd already pigeon-holed this as one of the greatest things I would ever read. Regrettably, [b:The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning|21920955|The Land of Stories A Grimm Warning|Chris Colfer|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1404481365s/21920955.jpg|26476394] is an ashen and toothless shadow of its former self, a book with an ever ridiculous storyline that mashes overtly jarring sentimentality with hit-or-miss (mostly miss) gags, all the while plunging our two favourite magical twins back into a Land of Stories where the wonder and giddy excitement of the first two outings of entering a place not unlike Narnia, is substituted with lame boredom. It's as if Glee actor [a:Chris Colfer|4919495|Chris Colfer|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1361053103p2/4919495.jpg] has given up on his magical land. Perhaps most notably, it took me three weeks to read, whilst both predecessors took a matter of hours. I'm most definitely checking out the fourth and final book in the series, but I'm less stoked as I was when I first started on page one of [b:A Grimm Warning|20706320|A Grimm Warning (The Land of Stories, #3)|Chris Colfer|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1391709728s/20706320.jpg|26476394].

*Sigh.*