Rhyme and Reason are two more dragons from Grimm Fairy Tales that I wanted to put on the list to talk about. Even the names give you something to work with. You hear “rhyme and…

Rhyme and Reason are two more dragons from Grimm Fairy Tales that I wanted to put on the list to talk about. Even the names give you something to work with. You hear “rhyme and reason” as an expression all the time, then you’ve got it attached to two actual dragons in this universe. I’ve been going through a lot of Grimm, and there’s an enormous amount of stuff outside the characters whose names are on the covers. You’ve got people, creatures, different worlds, and all these smaller pieces that you can get interested in along the way. At some point you end up wanting to stop and talk about those too instead of only talking about the next major storyline. The dragons are part of that for me. I wanted to talk about Rhyme and Reason, and then Slander came up in Snow White vs. Snow White. That gives us several dragons to discuss without having to leave Grimm at all. And it raises a question I’d like to hear other readers’ thoughts on. When you’re following a universe this big, which of the smaller characters do you actually want more of? Which ones make you want to stop and dig into their background instead of moving straight on to the next thing? There’s only so much room in any one story, but once you start reading across the universe, that list can get pretty damn long. Rhyme and Reason are two I wanted to bring into the conversation.