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3.28 AVERAGE
3.28 AVERAGE
I remember loving this book when I read it around middle school and high school. It spoke to me then. Not anymore but I think it was sweet and fluffy. Not Gail Carson Levine’s usual type but it’s wonderful.
Not nearly as powerful as Ella Enchanted, but still a very cute story.
I think Gail Carson Levine has her strong points and they aren't really present in this book. Her fantasy novels make this book look like...well, something not very nice. Even on its own though, I can only call this book okay. Wilma is a nice, okay main character with an okay way of looking at things. I kept thinking things would pick up a bit (after all, there was actual MAGIC) , but they never really did. I expected more to happen after the spell wore off but it was just eh.The girls somewhat forgive her and her boyfriend doesn't really change, and it ends as a nice "ehh..."
A sweet story about popularity and the true meaning of friendship. (That sentence is almost more cheesy than all of Jared's poems put together.)
Not a bad book, with a good moral, but it falls far short of her later works (read: [book:Ella Enchanted]).
This was a book that I picked up for my daughter, along with Lecibe’s Other books Ella Enchanted and the Two Princesses of Bamarre. I actually finished this one, and it was just ok. I was curious in the beginning, but slowly began to lose interest. Wilma is about to graduate middle school, but the book reads as if she is younger, in elementary school. But then it jumps as if she is older, the whole chapter on kissing and the middle school dance that’s supposed to be like a nightclub. The message at the end was positive. But this is not one that I will be keeping in our library.
Decision: Rehome
Always Shine!
I read this far too many times as a kid to be objective about it now! It was a wonderful nostalgic read for my Worried Pandemic Brain. This book does a great job of capturing the feelings of both self-conscious loneliness and life-affirming friendships, two extremes that defined my adolescence.