Fairy Tale

This one drove me crazy. The narrator kept saying things like, “I don’t want to sound shallow” and then proceeding to sound incredibly shallow. I think the same story from Pip’s point of view would have been fascinating; as it was, I just wanted to slap everyone. [Oct. 2010] ( )

A Fairy Tale is one of the most creative books i have ever read. Cyn Balog makes the characters that spring to life.Morgan,is a girl who is living the high school dream, Dating the quarterback of the high school football team,and having friends that will do anything for her. until something comes in the way and slowly tears things apart.

Not only was the beginning and middle of the book good,but the ending tied it all together. Balog could not have ended the story any better. It leaves you with a thought that inspires you and also makes you want to cry. You know a book is good when it effects your emotions.It is a great example of the phrase if you love something you have to let it go. ( )

What an amazing and refreshing story! I quickly fell in love and knew that once I started this book I just had to finish. Nothing disappointed me. All the characters were great and the ending, even better.

The story line in this book is very entertaining. We have this guy who is turning into a fairy and his girlfriend is doing her best to save him. I love their love for each other. It was refreshing and pure. Nothing can touch it or take it away. I also adore how much the characters grow and mature. I like how it happened right before the readers eyes. It wasn't fast but wasn't slow either. It was great reading the book and getting to know the characters.

The love. I am such a big romantic and romance it just blooming in this book. It wasn't a kind a love that was lusty or fake. But more of true love and sacrifice. It hits the reader right in there heart and makes you cry. You see the characters struggle but know that in the end, it is their love that will set them free.

The ending for me was just one of those endings that leaves you feeling,"awwww." Your heart has been swept away and just pumping in your chest. I adored how Ms. Balog wrote the ending and how well if fit the book. There was no bitterness or heartache. No more struggling or anger. Just a real, pure, true love. Remember real love is patient. It does not envy...it keeps no record of wrong...It always protects, always trust, and always perseveres ( )

The Scoop:

Morgan Sparks and Cameron Browne are the perfect couple. They've known each other forever--they live next door to each other and they even have the same birthday. Morgan is a psychic and gives readings to her fellow classmates for french fries and random favors. Cameron is the perfect male specimen and the sophomore quarterback of their high school's football team. Everything is going perfectly for this perfect couple until a week before their joint sweet sixteen party. Enter the mysterious, if goofily clumsy, Pip Merriweather. Upon Pip's arrival Cam starts acting differently--distant to Morgan, his physical prowess diminishes, oh, and he starts growing wings. As in fairy wings. Apparently Cam is a changeling that was dumped in the mortal realm because he was a sickly fairy baby and not expected to live. He did live but his older brother, and heir to the throne, did not. Now the fairy king wants his only living son to come back to the Otherworld and has sent Pip back to make the exchange. So it's up to Morgan to determine her true destiny and keep her true love with her.

My Thoughts:

Well, after my voracious reading of the Iron Fey series I was all set to dive into another fairy book with high expectations. Unfortunately, this one fell a little flat. Morgan wasn't the most appealing of characters--she was vaguely annoying with her psychic abilities and proclaiming that she was always right (and even if that's true she didn't have to be all snooty about it). And she totally defined herself by her psychic abilities and having Cam as her boyfriend. She kept proclaiming that she would be nothing without him which annoyed me to no end. When Cam starts showing signs of changing physically from human to fairy and losing his ability to get a scholarship from playing football she encourags him to find his "new thing" but she couldn't seem to do the same for herself. She did show a little backbone in her quest to find a way to keep him with her in the mortal world but other than that she was kind of wishy-washy in general. And, as in some first person narratives, we, the reader, don't see much depth in her supposed soul-mate, Cam, nor in the "exchange" student, Pip.

That being said, I did read all the way through the story anticipating what would ulitmately happen to these three and how their lives would change and evolve. I don't know that Morgan changed very much in the end--she did become a lot more confident in her psychic readings but not much else changed in her--but there were vast changes in Cam and Pip (mostly relating to their true destinies and a lot of it was physical). I also enjoyed the quirks of the secondary characters--Morgan's parents as "the world's youngest senior citizens" always looking for early-bird specials and spending their evenings watching TV Land and eating popcorn and her best girlfriend, Eden, who has a massive crush on a boy that everybody else knows is gay. This book was a quick read and, for the most part, enjoyable.

I don't know what it was, but I just could not get into this book. It was a cute book, and the writing was nice and flowed well, I guess I just couldn't take seriously the fact that her boyfriend was turning into a fairy.

I felt like the story went on way too long. The beginning was interesting, the ending was interesting, but the middle was just... there. Felt like everything in the middle was just a filler. I found myself getting impatient while reading. It felt like forever to get to their birthday party. Really, it just felt like everything in the middle could have been taken out, and the story would still make sense.

When I first started reading, I was surprised to know that the main character, Morgan, could see the future. I thought her psychic abilities were going to play a big part in the plot, but they didn't. And many pages flew by without her ability being brought up. I forgot she could see the future for a while.

But, it was a cute story. I even almost cried at the end. I connected with most of the characters and really enjoyed the story overall. ( )