The Forest Grimm Books in Order

The Forest Grimm duology takes familiar fairy-tale pieces and drops them into a cursed forest that does not play fair. It begins with Clara, a seventeen-year-old girl whose fortune-teller grandmother has foreseen a grim future for her. Clara's village sits beside the Forest Grimm, a place so dangerous that people who cross its border do not come back. When her mother's fate and her own seem tied to the curse, standing still is no longer an option.

So Clara goes in.

She enters the woods with Axel, her closest friend and the boy she is fated never to be with. That setup gives the series a slow-burn emotional core from the start. Clara and Axel know one another well, but the forest keeps testing what loyalty, affection, and fate really mean when survival is on the line. Their journey is not only about romance. It is about trust, grief, and deciding how much power a prophecy should have over a life.

The quest in The Forest Grimm is clear and urgent: find the Sortes Fortunae, the Book of Fortunes, reverse the curse on the village, and save Clara's mother. The trouble is that the woods have a mind of their own. As Clara and Axel move deeper in, Grimm tales echo all around them in darker forms. Creatures, riddles, bargains, and uncanny figures turn the setting into a shifting maze where every story feels half familiar and twice as dangerous.

What makes this series fun is the blend of fairy-tale logic and mystery. The books are full of old-story atmosphere, but they are also driven by questions. Who caused the curse? What really happened in the past? Can the forest be fought, or only understood? In The Deathly Grimm, the stakes widen when Clara and Axel learn that surviving the first trip was not enough, and the true source of the curse is still active.

The woods remember everything.

If you like romantasy with eerie scenery, cursed villages, and a more classic fairy-tale flavor than a big court fantasy, this series is an easy place to start. Purdie keeps the focus tight on Clara, Axel, and the emotional cost of every choice, while still filling the path with clever twists on stories you think you know. Expect danger, longing, and the feeling that the forest is always listening.