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The Fairies' Path
by Ava Corrigan
Anyone who knows me knows I have...extremely conflicting opinions about Fate in general, because I grew up on Winx Club since it had started airing in North America in 2004, and it was essentially something that defined like... most of my tween/teen years and was foundational to who I am as a person.
What drew me to the novelization was that, usually, these books feature "never before seen" scenes (which almost always were just bits from the scripts that ultimately hit the cutting room floor) or offer a better glimpse inside of the characters' minds.
Unfortunately, that...is not what this is. What The Fairies' Path offers is 97% what we get in the show, a "bonus" opening, and a small handful of "new" short exchanges of dialogue. The jumping of perspectives paired with also jumping between first person and third person and tense made this feel extremely choppy. Overall, I was left arguably even more dissatisfied than when I'd watched the show itself.
Also, one of my main gripes with the show was how it attempted to age up and "Riverdale" Winx Club, which meant more violence, language, and sexual content. Which isn't inherently bad, but it left me (and many others) wondering who the show's audience really was. Like, it was targeting the same young adult age group as Riverdale or The Vampire Diaries and yet now, here is the novelization—which pointedly SKIPS all of the swear words, glosses over the romantic elements, and can't even include the dialogue between Riven and Dane where Dane essentially labels himself as bi (or pan)??
All of that flies in the show, but not in the book? Make it make sense.
What drew me to the novelization was that, usually, these books feature "never before seen" scenes (which almost always were just bits from the scripts that ultimately hit the cutting room floor) or offer a better glimpse inside of the characters' minds.
Unfortunately, that...is not what this is. What The Fairies' Path offers is 97% what we get in the show, a "bonus" opening, and a small handful of "new" short exchanges of dialogue. The jumping of perspectives paired with also jumping between first person and third person and tense made this feel extremely choppy. Overall, I was left arguably even more dissatisfied than when I'd watched the show itself.
Also, one of my main gripes with the show was how it attempted to age up and "Riverdale" Winx Club, which meant more violence, language, and sexual content. Which isn't inherently bad, but it left me (and many others) wondering who the show's audience really was. Like, it was targeting the same young adult age group as Riverdale or The Vampire Diaries and yet now, here is the novelization—which pointedly SKIPS all of the swear words, glosses over the romantic elements, and can't even include the dialogue between Riven and Dane where Dane essentially labels himself as bi (or pan)??
All of that flies in the show, but not in the book? Make it make sense.