by Gail Carson Levine (Goodreads Author), David Christiana
Date Read: 5/14/15
Rating: ★ ★
I finally finished this book! This story actually felt pretty long. I feel
like it was drawn out to make it the number of pages the publisher wanted. The beginning of the book wasn’t bad. It was interesting enough and moved right
along. It was about halfway through when
everyone was going through wand madness and making wishes and then seeing the
repercussions of those wishes that seemed to drag on.
[SPOILER: Specifically the parts that felt long were
between the mermaids Soop and Pah, and also with Rani-bat. While Rani-bat was semi-interesting, it
dragged out…and then the dialog between them got annoying. “Esteemed bat…Esteemed
fairy…esteemed bat…esteemed fairy” UGH. END SPOILER]
The illustrations were beautiful though, just like the last
book. I actually like Tinker Bell as
well. I’m glad I own both the books and
found both of them at the used book sale.
I’ll read them to my daughter when she’s a little older. I just wish the story was written a little
bit better. I get that it’s written for
kids, but I feel like you can have a
story at a simple level with a good pace of beginning, middle, and end. Maybe if they had made the story 50 pages
shorter I would be singing it’s praises.
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