A review by anbar
Extraordinary: A Story of an Ordinary Princess by Cassie Anderson

3.0

2.5 stars, though I could see a younger audience rating it higher. A lightly humorous story about the seventh princess in the family, whose grumpy fairy godmother gives her the gift of being ordinary. As a result, she grows to feel inadequate and dull, outshone and overshadowed by her exceptional sisters. When she is the only princess not engaged, her mother decides to hire a dragon to kidnap her, which should attract would-be heroes to rescue and marry her. But she'll have none of that, and soon escapes to find her fairy godmother and ask her to remove her 'gift'.
A comfortably standard story of discovering your inner virtues. The dragon and the fairy godmother were funny in their complete contrast to fantasy stereotypes, though they played relatively minor parts. The two little villain familiars, though, I found mildly annoying. Not a bad standalone read for grade-schoolers or middle-schoolers, but older readers might feel too "I've seen this before" to enjoy it as much.