The Fairytale Code: (Anne Anderson Book 1)

Loved this engaging book! Already a lover of faery tales, this captivating book takes you to the source of the Brothers Grimm and the evolution of faery tales, in a mapestry to uncover the secrets behind them. I was captivated from beginning to end and longing for more. In this book you are transported to the deep forest in Germany, the reported starts of these tales, where mysteries abound to be explored and revealed.Love the writing style and looking forward to more of these tales from this skillful word artist. I would recommend this book to young adults as well adults in reliving those rewarding inner child memories.

This isn't a deep book, but it doesn't pretend to be. What it says it is -- and what it accomplishes -- is being an entertaining book with a reasonably novel premise. It is well written and well paced. But what you see is all that is there -- it is pretty much all surface-level, at least as much as a mystery can be. Still, definitely a fun, well-written read.

Really liked this book the first time I read it. Good premise, quick action, fun puzzles. At the time of my first read, I'd give it 4 stars. Now that the second book is out, I wanted to reread the first book. It's very plain that every instance of "her Majesty" in the original has been replaced with "his Majesty." How can I be so certain? Because of the numerous feminine pronouns obviously referring to the Queen (Elizabeth 2) that remain. I assume someone trying to update the book typed a search & replace for "her Majesty" but forgot about the pronouns that are not attached to the word majesty. Very sloppy and distracting. This was written during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Why change anything?

Enjoyable read and fun mystery, with a cliffhanger of sorts at the end, while still managing to solve the meat of the story.

NO SPOILERSFairytales were never meant for children but what if they held darker secrets? Secrets lost to time. Or were they?The story follows Professor Anne Anderson and Detective David Tale as they unravel the mystery at the heart of this book…. why a young girl was murdered in Westminster Abbey and what does it really mean to the royal family, the Vatican, and history. This mystery will take them from London to the Fairy Tale Route in Germany; where Anne and David will be forced to explore the twisted clues about the murder and confront their own pasts and dark secrets.As another reviewer mentioned, a post-story primer on Jace’s research and fact vs. fiction (what you thought you knew) would be a fantastic addition. There are also a few inconsistencies and unanswered questions that exist, but that did not take away from the story for me.Cameron Jace is a skilled storyteller. He weaves years of research into a terrific modern-day story that includes the history of the Brothers Grimm, Dorothea Viehmann, fairytales/folklore, and the picturesque Fairy Tale Route.You won’t look at Grimm’s Fairytales the same way again.

The amount of research that was done for this book was astounding, and unfortunately it kind of reads like it. The story itself is fast paced and on the gory side, which served its purpose. I marked it down for it coming across as notes from research that was twisted into a story and because the ending was too abrupt. As with any good story, its audience needs to live with the characters, not have it summed up so quickly. Altogether though, it was an interesting ride.

Not sure why people get so thrown off that a man writes about women when we have written them as our main focus for years.Cameron’s ability to twist fairytales into something that appeals to us on a grown up level always enthralls me. It makes me look up the original fairy tales and read them with my younger children.I personally love that his main characters seem to focus on women and their strength whether they start out that way or find it along the journey. It’s always an epic adventure and can’t wait for the next one. The twists are always my favorite :)

The pro on this is that the plot is very inventive. It's a retread of every Dan Brown novel ever but there are sooo many copycats out there now that you can't fault this author for being one of them. That being said, fairytales being based on real events is common knowledge (or, at least, that's what I thought before i read some of these reviews), so there's nothing too surprising there.Before I get into the cons, I want to say - I'm aware that authors are real people and read some of their reviews so I'm going to be as kind as i can here but i just have very little positive to say about this book. The character development is simplistic and disjointed. I mean...i hate long dramatic forays into the minds of the characters but the people in this book are barely sketches. It's not that they have a mystery in their past - that's fine - they just are poorly developed. It's hard to like or dislike or feel anything outside of bewilderment.The dialogue is also simplistic and disjointed - there is no conversational flow and the points of the mystery and the questions they ask on the way to solving it are all served up with the grace of a 2X4 to the head, as if the author thinks his readers are not intelligent.The book borders on horror.The book presents some past, ridiculous conspiracies as facts. That's not uncommon but, nowadays, when we have so many accepting crazy conspiracies as facts and that's causing real damage, I'm uncomfortable with the author presenting exceedlingly tenuos stories as absolute fact.It's grammatically awful and I don't mean just that the author may have used "Their" instead of "they're." I'm not one to be too bothered by grammar but it's so bad in this book that some sentences are barely intelligible. It's like there wasn't an editor and then someone used spell check with wild abandon, not reviewing it's word replacement suggestions.At the end of the day, this author is clearly very popular and has several books doing well already so good for them - they have their audience and I wish them well. Happy reading!

This was a well-paced story with an engaging main character, which kept me reading even when I should have been doing other tasks. Sadly, the editing let the book down; 'the Queen's correspondence' isn't a person, it's the letters etc that the Queen receives daily. After two years of research, I would have thought the author would have known the difference. This hasn't stopped me ordering the next book in the series but I hope Mr. Jace invests in a decent editor before it is released.

The idea is very good and the book is well written but there are a number of basic historical errors which are frustrating. This is particularly true of the references to English history, a.minor e.g. The Tudor rose being described asred (Lancaster) rather than red and white. (Tudor) Also the idea of the Queen giving direct orders to police is massively flawed.However, if you.ignore these real.errors, the story is good and I've always thought that there was more to fairy tales than people think.

Such a riveting story couldn't stop reading it and couldn't guess any of the twists. Good character development. No one is whom they seem initially I love Cameron's dark humour and his take on fairytales. Makes sense. Who knows. Could it really be true. Buy gotta read The Fairytale Plague

Love how the modern and original fairy tales are interwoven into the plot. Moves at a quick pace and keeps you guessing all the way.

I really hate not being able to finish a book, but I gave up on this about 15% in. This is one of those occasions where I bought books 1 & 2 together, really bad move. If I could return book 2, I would.The way this book reads is almost like you would expect the dialogue for a comic strip. In a way, it almost seems childish, not the sort of writing that invites you to be part of the story. I found myself getting annoyed with the style and 'lumpiness'. Although I always read the sample, I don't often read it completely, I will in future.