The Bunyan Barter (The Grimm Legacy Book 4) by Addie J. King

The Bunyan Barter (The Grimm Legacy Book 4) Reviews

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  Melissa Burcham

  I was given an ARC book for an honest review free of persuasion from the author or anyone else affiliated with this book.
  
  CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS
  
  Another great book by Addie King!!! I absolutely love this series and sincerely hope it never ends! I love how Addie King takes fairy tales that we have grown up with and adds a magical twist. The characters are believable. The story-line grips you from the beginning and you will be hooked until the last page. I cant wait for another book in this series. I don't yet know if there is going to be another, but here is to hoping!
  
  Janie Grimm is learning the hard way that magic comes at the least convenient times in her life. Her and Aiden are struggling with their relationship ever since the Wonderland escapades. She is only a week out from final exams in law school. Now is not the time for a new magical emergency. At 4:00 in the morning of her last day of classes before thanksgiving break, Janie gets woken up by a man chopping down her tree. Imagine Janie's surprise to find Paul Bunyan in her backyard. Someone had stolen Babe, the big blue ox, and Paul Bunyan is looking for someone to help him get her back. Janie puts aside her worry about Aiden, school, and everything else to help. What dangers lay ahead for Janie and her friends on this magical adventure? Does Paul get Babe back? At what cost?
  
  I recommend this series to everyone. I have enjoyed it thus far. While not completely necessary to read all four book in order, things do make a lot better sense if you do. If you like a twist on a classic fairy tale, give this series a shot! Thank you Addie J King for another great read!
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  Katinka

  Shortly before Thanksgiving, Janie Grimm and her housemates are awakened in the middle of the night by a very large man in a red flannel shirt chopping down the tree in her back yard while sobbing about someone having been taken.
  
  After calming everyone down and realizing they are in no danger from their late night visitor, everyone returns inside to start up the coffee, breakfast, and call up the rest of the F.A.B.L.E.S. group to come and help solve the mysteries involved in this tale.
  
  This book was centered around mainly American Legends and Tall tales. In this case Paul Bunyan's blue ox Babe has been kidnapped and someone is threatening to kill him if the apple heir is not brought to a meeting happening on the American Holiday. There's just one small problem… no one knows who the apple heir is, where exactly the exchange is supposed to take place, or what the real motive behind it all actually is.
  
  This time around, we get to see & learn about a lot of those who are featured in American tall tales and legends. Most of the new characters encountered were ones that I had grown up hearing about, plus a few that were new to me. The ones that I was familiar with were portrayed much as I would have expected them to be, with enough extra personality added in so as to not have them come across as solely one dimensional characters.
  
  I enjoyed this story, as well as the emotional conflicts that were happening as part of the secondary background tale, allowing us to see all the characters as fully developed individuals with problems of their own to deal with while they were busy trying to help solve magic and legend-based troubles.
  
  I believe that anyone who enjoys tall tales or stories of legendary historical figures will get a kick out of reading this one. I myself found it a very fun story to read and one that contains a great deal of emotion.