The Sisters Grimm Books in Order
Part ofMenna van Praag Books in OrderThis page lists The Sisters Grimm books by Menna van Praag in order, with short summaries, series background, and a simple guide to where to start.
Last updated: July 10, 2026
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The Sisters Grimm books in publication order
2 books
The Sisters Grimm
by Menna van Praag
2020
Four half-sisters, separated in the real world but linked in the shadow realm of Everwhere, must reclaim their elemental powers before their eighteenth birthday. If they fail, their demonic father will decide which of them lives.
Night of Demons and Saints
by Menna van Praag
2022
Three years after a shattering battle, the Grimm sisters are pulled back together as Goldie's grief drives her toward dangerous magic. In Everwhere, old wounds, dark possession, and another looming fight threaten everything they have left.
The Sisters Grimm books in chronological order
Series background & context
The Sisters Grimm is a dark contemporary fantasy built around four half-sisters, Goldie, Liyana, Scarlet, and Bea, who are linked by blood, magic, and a place called Everwhere. When they are children, Everwhere feels like a secret dream country, full of mist, falling leaves, ivy, and moonlight. It is where they first meet, and where they start to understand that they are not ordinary girls.
Each sister carries a different elemental gift. Goldie is tied to earth and growing things. Liyana works with water. Scarlet channels dangerous currents. Bea belongs to the air and can fly. Their powers make them strong, but they also mark them out as the daughters of a demonic father, and that inheritance is what drives the long conflict running through the series.
Everwhere is the heart of it.
In The Sisters Grimm, the girls have been torn away from one another and from Everwhere for years. As their eighteenth birthday approaches, they are pulled back together and forced to piece their past back into place. The tension comes from two directions at once: the messiness of their lives on earth, and the far bigger threat waiting in Everwhere, where they are expected to fight for survival rather than simply grow up.
Night of Demons and Saints picks up after a devastating battle and lets the cost of that earlier fight really land. The sisters are older, more wounded, and not neatly united. Grief, guilt, obsession, and the temptation to use magic the wrong way become just as dangerous as any outside enemy. The series keeps asking whether love and loyalty can hold when family history is poisoned from the start.
This is not a breezy fairy tale.
What you get instead is a mix of modern life and shadowy folklore, with romance, trauma, and sisterhood woven together. Cambridge and the everyday world matter, but Everwhere gives the books their mood: eerie, feminine, half-beautiful and half-threatening. If you like fantasy that cares as much about emotional scars as magical powers, this series has a lot to offer.
Across the books, the real draw is the relationship between the sisters. They do not always trust one another, and they do not always agree. But the story keeps circling back to the idea that power means very little without connection, and that finding your people can be as important as winning the battle. Expect elemental magic, family secrets, and a darker take on destiny.
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