Getting Grimm

"GRIMM" is an American police procedural fantasy television drama series and has been described as "a cop dramawith a twist... a dark and fantastical project about a world in which characters inspired by Grimms' Fairy Tales exist"

Here to provide most excellent recaps of this fantastical series through a romance author lens is Carina UK author Michelle Scott.

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The most perfect men arent perfect. Think of it. Would you really want a guy with god-like looks, a charming personality, no emotional baggage, and no hangups.

Stop laughing. Im serious.

Trust me on this. It wouldnt take long before Mr. Perfect was making you feel inferior. Youd wake up every morning looking like, well, like you just woke up. Whereas Mr. Perfect would look (and smell) like hed just showered. Youd be too grumpy to hold a conversation with your obsessively obnoxious next-door neighbor, but Mr. Perfect would always be happy to chat. Hed smile when he took out the garbage and never yell at the dog for peeing inside the house. Pretty soon, your inferiority complex would spiral into resentment.

We need a man with flaws because were all flawed ourselves. The way I look at it every hero, much like Superman, needs kryptonite. It makes him more human, and if I may suggest, more loveable.

This is why Im crushing on Nick Burkhardt. Up until this season of Grimm, Nick has been that too-good-to-be-wanted guy who did everything right. Sure, I liked the show and Nick was easy on the eyes, but he was a little too good. All that changed this season, though, when Nick got a blast of poisonous green spit to the eyes compliments of the evil Baron. Suddenly Nick when from Prince Charming to Prince Alarming. Not only was he a zombie, he was a crazy, violent zombie who got into a lethal bar brawl.

Now, it isnt zombie Nick that appeals to me (yuck!), but the Nick that comes after the traumatic experience. This Nick, who regrets his actions and suffers flashbacks to the bar brawl, is the one Ive come to love. See, theres nothing like an imperfect hero with a tragic past to make me watch a show. Or keep me turning pages in a book, for that matter.

Im not the kind to go for completely messed up guys who are beyond redemption (sorry, Baron Samedi, you and your evil, green spit are on your own), but I do like a guy with a few emotional cracks. It makes him more real and me less insecure.

And thats why Im loving this seasons Grimm more than any other.

Michelle Scott

About Michelle:

Maybe its because of my Halloween birthday, but Ive always been attracted to scary stories. On the other hand, I love romances as well. Once I discovered that these two genres existed side-by-side in urban fantasy novels, I was in heaven! Urban fantasy is like chocolate and peanut butter: a perfect, to-die-for combination that I can never get enough of.

Michelle's current book, STRAIGHT TO HELL is available NOW from Carina UK

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