Review: Grimm and Glitter
"Please note: I mixed up the order of their names in the initial newsletter email blast. The podcast is in face Grimm and Glitter, note Glitter and Grimm like I mistakenly said.
★★★☆
Goth and prep BFFs with superpowers and the power of queerness!!!!!
Stuck in Calamity Beach for the summer, internet best friends Glitter and Grimm finally get the chance to meet up. They immediately fall through a hole in the ground, find a creepy red door, and gain magical powers. You know. The usual summer fun. Glitter can now see the dead, while Grimm can hear people’s thoughts. They now have to unravel the secrets of Calamity Beach before the end of the summer and oh yeah, try not to die, because sometimes ghosts or other people with powers try to kill them.
Okay, so I absolutely addddoooorrreee Glitter and Grimm. As someone who has had internet best friends before (and still does!), their relationship is so realistic. I love the weird dynamic between “we know each other super well” and “okay but who the HELL are you?!”. And I adore how they keep calling each other Glitter/Grimm in person. It’s adorable and very realistic.
They’re also fantastic characters in their own rights. Like I said in my intro, they are the prep and goth BFFs that everyone wants in their media. There is literally a scene where Glitter makes Grimm drink a super sugary “unicorn drink” because she lost a bet. Glitter is a squishy bean who is also one hundred percent ready to punch someone in the nuts. Grimm is mysterious and angry (and y’all know how much I adore angry women in my fiction) and is described by the creator as “a chill troll goth vamp” so like… what more do you want?
The creator, Sophie Fae, does a fantastic job giving the characters interesting super powers. Glitter’s ghosts can sometimes influence the living world and Grimm’s telepathy has stipulations that add complications and also maybe demons talking to her? Chill. It’s hard to talk about the other character’s superpowers without giving out spoilers, but they are all just as fantastic..."
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