My Unfair Godmother

Your boyfriend took you on a date to do something you have never done before. Turns out you’re going to vandalize city hall with your bad boy boyfriend and they leave to face the authorities alone when the cops appear. Not only that, but that cute guy at the police station turned out to working against you and your parents and stepfamily are disappointed in you when you didn’t even spray the paint! You were just trying to get your boyfriend and his guys to stop!

            And then a girl with pink hair and fluttery wings appears in you room later when you’re crying and tells you she is your fairy godmother. She offers you three wishes if you sign a contract and agree that whenever you lie as your wishes are being carried out, either a frog or snake will grow on your tongue or you’ll have fireworks explode around your head until you tell the truth.

            This is what happens to Tansy Miller Harris in My Unfair Godmother, written by Janette Rallison. Chrissy is the pink-haired fairy-godmother-in-training who needed an extra credit project to get into the Fairy Godmother University, so Tansy fit what she needed for her extra grade. With what happened to Tansy with her boyfriend and nearly being charged with all the damage that was his fault, being offered three wishes by a fairy who needs extra credit could make everything better. Right?

            Wrong.

            In My Unfair Godmother, Tansy makes wishes that go wrong and gets her into deeper trouble and more confusion in her new town. As in most stories where someone is offered three wishes, the first two are wasted on bringing something in that wasn’t meant to be and the second was the reverse of the first wish. Follow Tansy as her third wish sends her back to the medieval times to relive the fairytale of Rumpelstiltskin.

            I first heard of this novel from another friend in my first semester of English. Only a couple days ago I found it on the shelf and checked it out. It didn’t look that appealing at first when I read the summary. It still didn’t have a hold on me the first couple of chapters, but once the magical beings appeared in Tansy’s room things were worth reading on. There were many perks to the book, such as the usual chaos of wishes being misunderstood. I especially loved the humor and small cute moments in the story as well as the simple mistakes Chrissy makes that make big changes on Tansy.

            The twists and turns of wishes gone wrong, escaping a crazy king, evil ex-fairies, and realistic human characters makes My Unfair Godmother by Janette Rallison a fun read for your summer reading list.

            And remember, there is always more than one moral to a story. You just have to make it our own and take from it your own lesson(s) you learned.

Happy reading!

~FallenBeyondAVividDream~