How To Ditch Your Fairy

Hello readers,once again I apologize for my late post.I'm trying to post it as fast as I could(Okay maybe I didn't try to hard)anyway this week I read How To Ditch Your Fairy by Justine Larbalestier.It is not a book that I would normally read but Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan(The Demon's Lexicon series) collaborated on a book so I decided to read one of Justine Larbalestier's work first before reading that book.This book was publishe in the year 2008 and it is a just a standalone.(Rarely do I have the chance to say that)

The High and The Low
.I really like Fiorenza and Stefan
.The story had a somewhat interesting concept

.I didn't like the ending
.The story was lacking in detail and depth

Quick Summary
In this world almost everyone has fairies.They give the person a certain luck or special ability like the parking fairy which will make that everytime you want to park somewhere there will be a parking spot for you.While a lot of people might enjoy this fairy Charlie does not.She hates cars and she hates that everyone keeps dragging her around so that they would have a great parking spot.She decided to not ride a car anymore until her fairy is gone so by doing that she gets into a lot of trouble because she keeps arriving late at school.Charlie likes the new boy Stefan and while Stefan seems to like Charlie too it seems that their relationship will not work because of Fiorenza.She has the All Boys Will Like You Fairy and every time she's int the picture all boys including Stefan can't help but to adore her.Charlie also has trouble with a boy named Andrews who keeps forcing Charlie to enter his car so he will get a great parking space............................That's all I guess

The Conclusion
I'm sorry to say but I was quite dissapointed by this book I really did try to like it but the book simply didn't live up to my expactation.The story did had an interesting concept but it never fully explored on what it could have been.I also felt that the story lack detail the author should  take a lesson from Robin McKinley.While normally I don't mind if books lacked detail I found out that the book could have gone so much better if it was more descriptive and the story also lack depth while I know the author probably wrote this book for young teenage girls it doesn't give her the excuse to write a good set of characters.I mean look at Marilyn Kaye while her story wasn't all that great her characters had more depth I could feel them.While this book only suppllied with empty named shells(Especially you Heather and Sandra) I also hated the ending it was simply too vague while some books are better left like that this book was not one of them I mean and it is pretty Ironic considering the advice Charlie gave to Tamsin.I also hated Charlie because I felt that she didn't learn a single thing from all of this.The saving grace of this book was its humour and Fiorenza.Fiorenza was the only character who had depth(Still lacking though)she also understood on what I hoped Charlie learn from this experience .After reading i'm wondering on what will happen to that book she's writing together with Sarah Rees Brennan.I'm just hoping that Sarah Rees Brennan is the one who makes the character.

Rating:5 out of 10