By Justine Larbalestier (Lah-bah-less-tee-ay)
How to Ditch Your Fairy is set in New Avalon, a fictional land that is a cross between Australia and the US. It’s about fourteen year old Charlotte or Charlie to anyone other than her mother, who goes to a hardcore strict sports school. At one point Charlie says "I love that everyone's into sports, that no one even talks about loving it 'cause it's too obvious. It's the air we breathe."
In this alternate universe, everyone – or almost everyone – has a fairy, a sort of invisible luck charm such as a shopping fairy (all clothes fit perfectly and a half off), or a clean fairy (even if you never shower you still smell clean), or an always-know-what-your-kids-are-up-to fairy (pretty self-explanatory), or, in Charlie’s case, a parking fairy. And she doesn’t even drive.
Tired of being taken advantage of for her parking spaces, Charlie teams up with Fiorenze, the most hated, and popular girl in school, who has an every-boy-will-like-you fairy, and they resort to some pretty extreme measures to get rid of their fairies.
While part of How to Ditch Your Fairy is Charlie trying to impress a boy, it’s not that trashy, unlike some books (yes TTYL, that means you). It’s well written and funny and apart from the whole boy chasing thing, Charlie’s a good strong character. Also the audiobook reader is well chosen and she’s Australian. (Yay Aussies!) So, all in all, not bad.
Oh and did I mention that the author’s Australian? (Yay aus-wait, already did that one)
Feisty chick-o-meter: 8/10
Age rating: 14+
Rating: 8/10
Stand alone or series: Stand alone
Book or audiobook: Audiobook
Last word: Keeper
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