Thompson, Mary G. Evil
Fairies Love Hair. Clarion Books
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), 2014.
$16.99. 314 pages. Content: G (the story is dark though).
Have you ever longed to be prettier, more popular, talented,
or smarter? All you have to do is raise
a batch of fairies and they will make your dream (or curse) come true. Ali is tired of being compared to her smarter
older sister Hannah. She wants her
parents to think she is smart. So she signs
the contract takes a fairy starter set from Michael, her fourteen-year-old
smoking neighbor. At first the job seems
pretty easy—feed the fairies hair. But
Ali and her friends soon discover they are not raising fairies at all, but
divvy-imps, creatures whose purpose is to punish badly behaved children. The divvy-imps are becoming more powerful and
have taken over a human. Ali also learns
that there is more to her contract than she realized and that the consequences
could be disastrous not only for her, but her friends. The story is heavy on originality and light
on charm. It is definitely darker than
expected and lacking in humor. The story
has many twists, too many rules and made-up acronyms that are hard to follow. The lack of fairies is also
disappointing. As a reader, I felt like I
was tricked into reading a very different book than I expected.
EL/MS-OPTIONAL. Samantha
Hastings, MA, MLS.
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