Charlie wants to get rid of her fairy which gives her and people driving with her good parking spots. This fairy makes her feel used by many people including her mother. He best friend has a fairy that gives her the power to find excellent and cheap clothing, which would be every teenager dream to...
Charlie wants to get rid of her fairy which gives her and people driving with her good parking spots. This fairy makes her feel used by many people including her mother. He best friend has a fairy that gives her the power to find excellent and cheap clothing, which would be every teenager dream to...
Took me a while to learn the vocabulary, but it was a cute, fun read. I like the way the world was imagined, thought I did want a little more depth to the happenings. Very enjoyable though!
Tenth book of the Australian Women Writers Challenge for me!I confess that I didn't actually much like this book. Some of the world-building showed promise, but then it all vanished in a puff of smoke, with the happy ending coming too abruptly for me. The made-up slang seemed a bit pointless and ove...
Entertaining and well-written, but there was so much more I really needed to know, like why is this society so completely fucked-up? I don’t know if there’s a sequel coming, but I hope so—without it, I’m left scratching my head over a book where kids are dealing with criminally violent behaviour (st...
I am... not impressed. I would go so far as to say disappointed. I was so looking forward to this book, I’d seen it recced a few places and those people loved it. But yea, this was not the book for me.Lets start with the thing that bothered me the most, the fictional slang. Fictional slang is not so...
This was heaps of fun. I would enjoy more books in the New Avalon world. Not just more about Charlie and her friends, but her sister (who is great) and the world Larbalestier has built, too.
If you could have any kind of personal fairy, what kind would you want? Unfortunately for Charlie, she didn't get to pick her fairy. If she had, she would have chosen a loose change fairy, a clothes shopping fairy, or better yet, an all boys like you fairy. But Charlie didn't get any of those fai...
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