The Grimm Conclusion

While I really liked the other two books, I had some problems with this one. It started off okay. I don't know why we always have to have a girl/boy combo as the MCs, but we do. The parents are good and evil, the ravens are about and we have a puzzle for the main characters to figure out. Good, good.
Where it went wrong for me was the jaunt out into the real world. Now, suddenly, we are ripped out of the story and into a pity party for people whose parents have divorced. On top of that, we now need to know the other two books (which I read YEARS ago and barely remember) I found that odd in a companion book and is more in line with a sequel. The story redeemed itself for awhile with the scene with the Devil and his grandmother (who probably need their own series) and then tanked again with the big, long battle scene featuring a bunch of return characters I forgot about from the other books. I am worried about negative connotations toward parents who read or, gosh forbid, go back to school to improve their family's lot in life. Couldn't the mother have been doing something else? Making a tapestry or something? Why in this day with kids barely reading would we want to throw ANY negative light on reading at all?
Sorry, rant over.
In the end, I recommend reading the other books first, or maybe just stopping with the second one. I didn't hate or even dislike this book, I just thought it hit some nerves.