Lucia

This summer I read In A Glass Grimmly by Adam Gidwitz. there are a lot of different settings, but the major one is in a kingdom near England called Märchen. The main characters are a boy named Jack and a girl named Jill. The main conflict for Jack, is that all the boys in the kingdom make fun of him because he always follows around a boy named Marie. They made up a song about it that goes like this: “Marie had a little lamb..” and you probably know the rest (lamb can also mean someone who follows people). Jill is the princess in the same kingdom and she also got humiliated because she was tricked into being naked in front of the whole kingdom. This happened because a dishonest merchant was pretending to sell the finest silk that could only be seen by the people with the most refined eyes. So the queen had the dress made for Jill, who wore it outside. She did not actually have anything on.

An event that changed the direction of the story is when  Jack has to sell his only friend Milky the cow. I think this changes the direction of the story because now Jack does not have any friends and he sells the cow for magic beans. When Jack and Jill meet an old lady, they have to make a big decision: either agree to get a glass and get all they ever wanted, but they will die if they don’t get it, or don’t agree to anything and just live thier nomal lives again but you don’t get all you ever wanted. I can not tell you what they choose but how I know they have to make this decsion is when it says “Now will you swear on your very lives to get the glass?”. The problem does get solved at the end of the book. How I know this is when it says “the boys from the village sat beside Elsie and her little sister.” so they were friends with them now.

I really enjoyed this book. I enjoyed it because it has lots of action and adventure. I also enjoyed it because it is really funny in some parts. And the third reason I enjoyed it is that it has a lot of fantasy. This book is in a series,it is the second book. I would recomend this book to readers who love fantasy because a lot of the book has fantasy in it. I would rate this book five stars, I  really enjoyed it!