50 in '10: #20
Jun. 23rd, 2010 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Title: Fairest
Author: Gail Carson Levine
Length: 326 pages
I had read Ella Enchanted a few years ago, but sadly, I wasn't. Enchanted, that is. So when I saw this book at the library I decided to give the author and the universe a try. Where EE was a redo of the Cinderella story, Fairest is a redo of Snow White. And it suits my taste better than EE did. I liked the theme of "beauty is in how you look at yourself." I liked that Aza, the Snow White character, was a big girl: tall and sturdy. What irked me, though, were her constant repetitions of the fact that she was ugly without the author giving a baseline comparison of what was considered to be beautiful in the culture around her.
Verdict: overall recommended. Readers could do a lot worse.
Author: Gail Carson Levine
Length: 326 pages
I had read Ella Enchanted a few years ago, but sadly, I wasn't. Enchanted, that is. So when I saw this book at the library I decided to give the author and the universe a try. Where EE was a redo of the Cinderella story, Fairest is a redo of Snow White. And it suits my taste better than EE did. I liked the theme of "beauty is in how you look at yourself." I liked that Aza, the Snow White character, was a big girl: tall and sturdy. What irked me, though, were her constant repetitions of the fact that she was ugly without the author giving a baseline comparison of what was considered to be beautiful in the culture around her.
Verdict: overall recommended. Readers could do a lot worse.
