Book Review: Fairest by Gail Carson Levine

Okay, so I know this is another Gail Carson Levine book, but this book's cover was so tempting that I had to read it..................... So this book IS fantasy, as you may have guessed. It's based off of "Snow White." Anyways, to the plot....

Aza believes she was born singing. "Most babies were born crying. I was born singing," she says in the beginning. That was the first line, and let me tell ya, that was when I fell in love with Aza's character. Aza was abandoned by her real parents at the Featherbed Inn. The innkeeper and his wife, whom Aza comes to know as "Mother" and "Father," hear her wailing--or singing, as the wife puts it--and sees her lying there on the bed with a velvet blanket. So, as you probably have guessed, the innkeeper and his wife adopt Aza as their own. This part is fairly predictable.
Once Aza grows to be a child, she realizes she is as ugly as ugly can be. Aza is big-boned and wide, with chubby cheeks and big eyes. But as her adopted brother, Yarry, said, her singing makes up for her ugliness. But not all of the Featherbed's guests get to hear Aza sing, so they automatically stare straight her way during the meals when they see her, making her feel horrible.
Then one day a troll comes along to stay at the Featherbed. His name is zhahM. zhahM makes a prediction that he will see Aza again in Gnome Caverns; and Aza will be in danger.

That's all of the plot I'm going to give away. You have to read this amazing book by Gail Carson Levine for the rest. It's unbelievably better than Ella Enchanted, in my opinion anyways. I'm going to search for a book better than this one, just to see if there is a better book than "Fairest."
Gail Carson Levine draws the characters very well, and answers the question of: "Why is Snow White all-of-the-sudden the fairest in the land?" There IS romance here, like "Ella Enchanted," and there IS humor here and there, and it IS interesting, and it IS easy to read, but in "Fairest" there's something that "Ella Enchanted" doesn't have. There's action. Sure, Ella meets up with some ogres, but she doesn't----okay. I'm giving away more of the plot.
I'd definitely say READ IT AND BASK IN IT AND ALL THAT JAZZ for "Fairest." I give this one a 1,000,000,000,000,000,999/10.
NOW GO TO YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY AND GET THIS BOOK AND READ IT AND BASK IN IT AND ALL THAT JAZZ !!!