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    The Grimrose Girls
    The Grimrose Girls
    The Grimrose Girls
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Grimrose Girls

    Written by Laura Pohl

    Narrated by Cindy Kay

    3.5/5

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    FOUR FRIENDS, ONE MURDER, AND A DARK FATE THAT MAY LEAVE THEM ALL DOOMED …

    After the mysterious death of their best friend, Ella, Yuki, and Rory are the talk of their elite school, Grimrose Académie. The police ruled Ariane’s death as a suicide, but the trio is determined to find out what really happened.

    When Nani Eszes arrives as their newest roommate, it sets into motion a series of events that no one could have predicted. As the girls retrace their friend’s final days, they discover a dark secret about Grimrose—Ariane wasn’t the first dead girl.

    They soon learn that all the past murders are connected to ancient fairy-tale curses … and that their own fates are tied to the stories, dooming the girls to brutal and gruesome endings unless they can break the cycle for good.

    “A suspenseful, thrilling tale full of all the dark magic, swoon-worthy romance, and courageous heroines we know and love from our favorite fairy tales.”—ROSEANNE A. BROWN, New York Times bestselling author of A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateOct 26, 2021
    ISBN9781705051993
    Author

    Laura Pohl

    Laura Pohl is an author who specializes in young-adult fiction. She enjoys writing messages in caps lock, quoting Hamilton, and obsessing about Star Wars. When not taking pictures of her dog, she can be found curled up with a fantasy or science-fiction book. A Brazilian at heart, she currently resides in São Paulo. For more information, visit onlybylaura.com.

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    3.5/5

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    Readers find this title to be a thrilling and magical read with great voice and diverse representation. The story weaves together classic fairy tales into a gripping modern mystery. Although some readers found the narrator's voice boring and disliked the accent for one of the characters, overall, the book is enthralling and full of surprises. Fans of twisted fairy tales will eagerly await the release of the second book in the series.

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    • 5/5
      Thrilling and magical! The four main characters are wonderful and the story is truly enthralling ❤️✨

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The Grimrose Girls is comped as Once Upon a Time meets Pretty Little Liars, and it does a great job of weaving together classic fairy tales into a gripping modern mystery about a group of friends who try to solve the death of their best friend Ariane. This book was a fun read with great voice and diverse representation, which I already knew Laura Pohl was capable of as her previous books The Last 8 and The First 7 were also great reads!

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Man this was a messed up twisted fairytale novel... every moment is a twist, every moment is a surprise.
      Can't wait for the second book to be released

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This book was so much fun, I couldn't stop listening until I finished it ?

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      A story about fairy tale characters in a modern world. If that's what you're looking for, go for it.

      Seems like it is first in a series.

      I really didn't like the narrator's "pidgin" accent for one of the characters. Other than that, no complaints about narration.
    • 1/5
      I don't even know what I read, somehow? Also the narrator's voice lulled me to boredom, so it wasn't helping...
    • 2/5
      Predictable. I just looked at the title here and realized it's a series?? I guess I should have paid more attention to the ending than I did.
    • 4/5
      Take four girls who have formed a tight group at an exclusive private boarding school located in a Swiss castle. They have secrets, so does the school, not to mention hidden passages and an equally hidden series of deaths. When one of the four becomes the next dead girl, the official word is that she killed herself, but the other three don't believe it. When they begin to dig for answers, more tragedy occurs and they're joined by a new girl whose presence they resent at first, until she begins to make them see her usefulness. Slowly, ever so slowly, the intrigue builds while more about their friend's death, and the secrets surrounding the school, are revealed. Readers are left with answers that just may create even more questions, leading to a sequel.
    • 3/5
      Review of Advance Reader’s eBookA mysterious book of fairytales found hidden in Ariane Van Amstel’s closet shortly after her supposedly-suicide-drowning, stuns her friends at Grimrose Académie, an elite Swiss boarding school. Did Ariane commit suicide or was her death the result of something far more sinister? Her best friends, Ella Ashworth, Yuki Miyashiro, and Rory Derosiers, joined by new student Nani Eszes, set out on a search for the truth.But what do the fairytales have to do with Ariane’s death? And what do they mean to the other girls?With another death at the school, the girls’ investigation takes on even greater importance and leads to some unexpected dark secrets. Will the girls discover the secret of Grimrose Académie before another student meets her death?This Young Adult tale, the first in a series and set in an elite boarding school in a castle in Switzerland, reimagines several classic fairytales. Told in alternating points of view by the four girls [Ella, Yuki, Rory, and Nani], each of the girls brings something unique to the telling of the tale. The angst of teenager-dom is well done and there’s a strong representation for LGBTQIA characters, but it sometimes felt as if it was lesbian [check], pansexual [check], transgender [check], asexual aromantic [check] . . . a bit like having a checklist of sexual identities to be certain to include . . . and the result was that, instead of feeling natural, it all came across as being rather heavy-handed.While readers may feel that there’s far more exposition than action, the plot is interesting and takes several unexpected twists as the girls attempt to solve the mystery tied to their friend’s death. The story is dark and occasionally grim, but the interweaving of the various aspects of several familiar fairytales gives the narrative a distinctiveness that only adds to the mysterious aura.But many of the fairytales are dark and end in death . . . certainly not fairytales of the Disneyesque variety . . . and most of the girls are thoroughly unlikeable, making it difficult for the reader to truly connect with them and care about them. For being best friends, there often seemed to be a great deal of tension between the girls; some background specific to the coming together of this small group might have helped clarify the relationships for the reader.Astute readers may identify the culprit long before the surprising reveal, but the breaking of the curse and the saving of the Grimrose girls is left unresolved [for the next book?].Recommended.I received a free copy of this eBook from Sourcebooks Fire and NetGalley#thegrimrosegirls #NetGalley
    • 5/5
      Ella, Yuki, and Rory are returning to their elite boarding school, Grimrose Académie; however, this year they will begin the year with a funeral for their friend Ari. Ari was found drowned in the lake by the school just before the semester began. The girls don't believe Ari's death was a suicide like the officials say. Ella, Yuki and Rory don't make any headway in finding a cause for their friend's death until a new girl, Nani arrives. Nani finds a book of fairy tales with a list of names that Ari had been taking notes in along with a threatening note. The girls piece together that the deaths at Grimrose seem to follow the endings of fairy tales. But, are the deaths at the hand of a human killer or a curse upon the school?The Grimrose Girls is a young adult murder mystery combined with a little magical realism. The writing drives directly into the mystery as the girls attend Ari's funeral. Each of the girl's personalities were well developed and evident from the beginning. Yuki strives for perfection in everything, Ella has a need to please everyone around her, Rory wants to be herself, despite her parents best efforts to make her someone else and Nani needs to find her place within this strange group of girls and discover why her father sent her to Grimrose. I loved the incorporation of the fairy tales around each girl's situation. The suspense built as fairy tail deaths begin to find their matching students. The line between magic and reality was easily blurred as the girls were pulled into their fairy tales and seemed to play out their tragic stories. Even more than the mystery, The Grimrose Girls is a story of friendship, coming of age and self-discovery. Each of the girls takes on figuring out who they are without Ari, the glue of the group. They also find who they are in relation to their fairy tales and decide if they want to play into their fate or change it. With a diversity of characters and a wonderful storyline, I can't wait to read the next book. This book was received for free in return for an honest review.