Jan. 10, 2007 - Fairest
Hi everybody! I wrote this review and then acciedently deleted it so your going to get the short ,sweet version.
Fairest
By Gail Carson Levine
As those of you who have read this authors Newbery Honor book, Ella Enchanted, know, Gail Carson Levine has a standard of excellence. Her characters are strong, defined, and well-developed and her writing is marvelous. Her books for girls 8 and up are mostly based on well-known fairytales. I'm using based in the losest sense of the word. She twists, revamps, tweaks and molds those dusty old storys into award-winning novels! Some have more of the original plot in them then others. Fairest is one of the others. It's the story of Aza, a young Ayothian girl with a beutiful singing voice and little or no physical beauty. In fact, by Ayorthian standards, she is downright hideous! She is avoided, teased, and even feared. She was left in an inn when she was a baby and raised by a kindly inkeeper and his wife like one of their own children. When she is about 15, she goes to a royal wedding with a guest at her fathers inn, and then her real problems begin. She falls in love with the Prince and is yanked into a web of deception spun by the new Queen. Will the prince believe her or Queen Ivi (a bratty, imature woman, barely older then Aza herself, who will do anything to be the Fairest) when the queen denounces Aza as an ogress and a liar? Or will he, the only person, it seems, outside of her family, who loved her despite her apperance, give up on her? And what will she find out about her shadowy past? There's alot more to the story and alot more I could tell you, but (partly because I'm sick of writing about it, and partly because you should just read it) I'm not going to. I would definitly reccomend it, tho, along with Ella Enchanted and The Princess Tales (also by Gail Carson Levine).
I hope you enjoyed it and read the book!
Cleo
Comments
Jan. 10, 2007 - Cool
Posted by SeaChel
That sounds like a cool book. I should read it some time.
~SeaChel
