Okay, so it’s been a very long time since I have written anything for this blog and I thought it was about time I started doing reviews on some of the books I read. I just recently read this book, about a week and half ago, but I didn’t think about writing a review for it until now.

So rather than reading Fairest I actually listened to it. I like doing that better so that I can do other things while I listen. I usually get more out of this, because the voice of the narrator always helps me to imagine the characters easier.

I thought it was an amazing book! I just realized that I really enjoy fairy-tale books, with princesses and magic and all that. I really enjoyed the whole book and I’m probably boring everyone so I will get to the point!

The book is about a girl named Aza. Her parents own an inn, the Featherbed Inn. They found her at their inn when she was a baby, so they aren’t her real parents but they are very nice to her. They live in Ayortha, where everyone sings. She has an amazing voice, but she is really ugly (or so she says) and hates how she looks. She learns how to do a singing trick she calls illusing where she sort of puts her voice somewhere else and she can make her voice be in that place.

A duchess comes to the Inn and ends up taking Aza to a Royal Wedding, where the King gets married to a commoner named Ivi. Ivi finds out Aza’s illusing trick, and manipulates her. Ivi can’t sing, and she gets Aza to illuse a voice for her. Aza becomes Ivi’s Lady in Waiting, and stays at the palace. Something soon happens to the king and then lots of things happen afterwards. Ivi meets a Prince and falls in love with him; she finds a magic mirror; a spell for beauty goes wrong; and she illuses for the queen, Ivi. I found this book to be really good and I hope other people do too.

Hopefully I will be doing a lot more book reports this summer and fall, thanks for reading them! 🙂