{"id":8,"date":"2007-07-12T17:46:30","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T21:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/12\/fairest-by-gail-carson-levine\/"},"modified":"2007-07-12T17:53:55","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T21:53:55","slug":"fairest-by-gail-carson-levine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Review of Fairest, by Gail Carson Levine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"book-details\">\n<div id=\"book-title\">Fairest<\/div>\n<p><!-- #book-title --><\/p>\n<div id=\"book-author\">by Gail Carson Levine<\/div>\n<p><!-- #book-author --><br \/>\nReviewed July 9, 2007.<br \/>\nHarperCollinsPublishers, New York, 2006. 326 pages.<br \/>\nStarred Review.<\/div>\n<p><!-- #book-details -->Fans of <a href=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/YAFiction\/ellaenchanted.html\"><em>Ella Enchanted,<\/em><\/a> of which I am one, will love Gail Carson Levine\u2019s latest book, loosely based on the fairy tale of Snow White. In fact, the story involves the king who married Ella\u2019s stepsister, Ivi. It turns out he was king of neighboring Ayortha, the home country of Ella\u2019s roommate, where everyone loves to sing and those with beautiful voices are honored.<\/p>\n<p>Aza has one of the most beautiful voices of all, and she finds she can do amazing things with her voice. Unfortunately, she\u2019s terribly ugly.<\/p>\n<p>When Aza gets a chance to go to the king\u2019s castle, the new queen takes special notice of her. Then the king gets injured, and the queen is in charge. She seems only concerned that people think her beautiful. The queen has a mirror. When Aza sees her own reflection in the mirror, she is changed, astonishingly beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>This book doesn\u2019t follow the fairy tale it\u2019s based on as closely as <em>Ella Enchanted<\/em> does. But the elements of Snow White are there, woven into a story of beauty and power and love and deception. Gail Carson Levine has done it again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairest by Gail Carson Levine Reviewed July 9, 2007. HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, 2006. 326 pages. Starred Review. Fans of Ella Enchanted, of which I am one, will love Gail Carson Levine\u2019s latest book, loosely based on the fairy tale of Snow White. In fact, the story involves the king who married Ella\u2019s stepsister, Ivi. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}