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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183660.Fairest?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Fairest" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1172520011m/183660.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183660.Fairest?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Fairest</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13677.Gail_Carson_Levine">Gail Carson Levine</a><br/><br/>
  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22331146?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
  rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/><u>Fairest</u> is a fun fantasy, by Gail Carson Levine, thats great for teens. It shows that inter beauty is really what matters for a girl at a young age. In a small country there lived an Ayorthaian named Aza. Aza figures out that she is a great singer and that she has a great talent. She was abandoned by her parents and now works at her step parent’s inn, Featherbed, where she was raised. She feels that the only reason why she was abandoned was because she thought that her parents hated her ugliness. Aza has skin of a weak blue-white skimmed milk, her lips are as red as a dragon’s tongue and her hair is as black as an old frying pan which makes her the “different” kind of girl. The Ayorthaians are very sensitive to beauty and Aza always feels like she’s getting uglier each day so, she has never looked into a mirror in her life. One of the “people” who stay at the hotel, ZhamM the dwarf is her only friend, and cares for her. He stays at the inn frequently and to Aza he’s a green gentleman, green for the emerald buttons on his tunics and gentleman for being polite and fussy with a soft breathy voice and small gestures. To me this book seems like a different version of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” instead of an evil queen there is Ivi, she is the temporary queen of Ayortha. She becomes friends with Aza. Then there are dwarfs but they aren’t little and there aren’t seven of them. Also there is a mirror and when you look in it you see yourself the way you want people to see you. Aza looked in it once and looked beautiful but when she looked in it the second time she was her own self. Aza couldn’t believe it. In that moment Skulni, Ivi’s secret adviser, told Aza that there is a beauty potion in Ivi’s drawers. As Aza went to go look for it, Ivi found out and sentenced her to her death. By the time she was going to be searched, Aza left and went for a search of her own to find out her true self. 
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<br/>I rated this book four stars because when I pick it up I couldn’t stop reading it. The suspense of the story kept me attached to it. Fairest did not bore me to dreads. The details in the sentences made me feel like I was actually with Aza or seeing the object. The only thing in the story I didn’t like were the songs that were written in between the story. The songs took forever to read and they bored me after awhile. 
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Natalie 's review
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recommended for: Mostly Teenage Girls

** spoiler alert ** Fairest is a fun fantasy, by Gail Carson Levine, thats great for teens. It shows that inter beauty is really what matters for a girl at a young age. In a small country there lived an Ayorthaian named Aza. Aza figures out that she is a great singer and that she has a great talent. She was abandoned by her parents and now works at her step parent’s inn, Featherbed, where she was raised. She feels that the only reason why she was abandoned was because she thought that her parents hated her ugliness. Aza has skin of a weak blue-white skimmed milk, her lips are as red as a dragon’s tongue and her hair is as black as an old frying pan which makes her the “different” kind of girl. The Ayorthaians are very sensitive to beauty and Aza always feels like she’s getting uglier each day so, she has never looked into a mirror in her life. One of the “people” who stay at the hotel, ZhamM the dwarf is her only friend, and cares for her. He stays at the inn frequently and to Aza he�...more Fairest is a fun fantasy, by Gail Carson Levine, thats great for teens. It shows that inter beauty is really what matters for a girl at a young age. In a small country there lived an Ayorthaian named Aza. Aza figures out that she is a great singer and that she has a great talent. She was abandoned by her parents and now works at her step parent’s inn, Featherbed, where she was raised. She feels that the only reason why she was abandoned was because she thought that her parents hated her ugliness. Aza has skin of a weak blue-white skimmed milk, her lips are as red as a dragon’s tongue and her hair is as black as an old frying pan which makes her the “different” kind of girl. The Ayorthaians are very sensitive to beauty and Aza always feels like she’s getting uglier each day so, she has never looked into a mirror in her life. One of the “people” who stay at the hotel, ZhamM the dwarf is her only friend, and cares for her. He stays at the inn frequently and to Aza he’s a green gentleman, green for the emerald buttons on his tunics and gentleman for being polite and fussy with a soft breathy voice and small gestures. To me this book seems like a different version of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” instead of an evil queen there is Ivi, she is the temporary queen of Ayortha. She becomes friends with Aza. Then there are dwarfs but they aren’t little and there aren’t seven of them. Also there is a mirror and when you look in it you see yourself the way you want people to see you. Aza looked in it once and looked beautiful but when she looked in it the second time she was her own self. Aza couldn’t believe it. In that moment Skulni, Ivi’s secret adviser, told Aza that there is a beauty potion in Ivi’s drawers. As Aza went to go look for it, Ivi found out and sentenced her to her death. By the time she was going to be searched, Aza left and went for a search of her own to find out her true self.

I rated this book four stars because when I pick it up I couldn’t stop reading it. The suspense of the story kept me attached to it. Fairest did not bore me to dreads. The details in the sentences made me feel like I was actually with Aza or seeing the object. The only thing in the story I didn’t like were the songs that were written in between the story. The songs took forever to read and they bored me after awhile. ...less

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