Genre: Young Adult, Middle Grade Fantasy
Source: I won a copy from LibraryThing. The opinions expressed here are my own.
This was an absolutely wonderful book. I read it in about
four hours. We start off with a young girl who has no friends. Michaela is
constantly taunted about her size and appearance. One day while playing outside she runs into
the woods and gets lost. She keeps walking until she finds a lake. She meets
the fairy in the lake and she meets a talking beaver. He givers her a stick
that will take her home. He also tells her that it can bring her back if she
only says some magic words. She buries the stick until the day she can no
longer take the taunting. She takes the stick, says the magic word and is
brought back to the lake. She makes a wish to be beautiful like the fairy in
the lake. The fairy tries to talk her out of it, but she insists. Michaela becomes beautiful on the outside.
Unfortunately, something else happens to her and her insides begin to turn
dark.
This is a wonderful story of consequences of our actions. It
is a story of Good versus evil, light versus darkness. The characters are all very well developed. The
world building, although fantasy is so well written the reader is made to feel
like they have entered the world as they are reading. This is a brand new
author to me. However, I love reading stories that are allegorical and I am
sure I will be reading more of this author’s work. I highly recommend this book to young and old
alike.
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