Fairest
Ratings35
Average rating3.6
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Ratings35
Average rating3.6
This is a retelling of the fairy tale Snow White.
From the Author:
The fairy Lucinda has once again given a dreadful gift. This time it's a mysterious magical mirror.
The gift is disastrous when it falls into the hands of Aza, who never looks in a mirror if she can help it. In the Kingdom of Ayortha, Aza is most definitely not the fairest of them all. Many spurn her. Many scoff at her. She keeps out of sight.
But in a land of singers, Aza has her own gift, one she's come by without fairy intervention: a voice that can do almost anything, a voice that captivates all who hear it. In Ontio Castle, merry Prince Ijori is drawn to it, and vain Queen Ivi wants to use it for her own ends. Queen Ivi would do anything to remain the fairest in the land.
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2 primary books3 released booksElla Enchanted is a 3-book series with 2 primary works first released in 1997 with contributions by Gail Carson Levine.
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(2008) My library had a copy of this book, so I started to read it. But it just made me wish I had a young girl to share the story with, so I stopped. I'll read it again one day, it seems to hold a good lesson. I'm just too distracted to read it right now.
Comfort reread.
I like pretty much all of Levine's work, but she doesn't skip the rough bits. This might not be a book to read if you're currently dealing with body image stuff. Like, the ending message of “you're beautiful how you are!” is great, but uh. There's a lot of internal monologue of self hatred before we get to that bit. I would love to have learned more about Aza's specific history and how she came to be a foundling, though, I think that would be fascinating.
My daughter got this out of the library and decided on this as the latest read-aloud bedtime story book. It's a fantasy about a girl in a kingdom that prizes singing ability. And it's sortuva preteen romance-y type thing and really geared towards younger girls. So... it was okay for my daughter but OMG this did nothing for me. I thought it pretty clunky and slow and just, well, dull. Maybe it's okay for you, though.
