Book Review: My Fair Godmother

Title: My Fair Godmother
Author: Janette Rallison
Genre: Teen Fiction/Romance/Humor/Fairy Tales
Goodreads rating: 3.96
My rating: 4


Finding your one true love can be a Grimm experience! 

After her boyfriend dumps her for her older sister, sophomore Savannah Delano wishes she could find a true prince to take her to the prom. Enter Chrissy (Chrysanthemum) Everstar: Savannah’s gum-chewing, cell phone–carrying, high heel-wearing Fair Godmother. Showing why she’s only Fair—because she’s not a very good fairy student—Chrissy mistakenly sends Savannah back in time to the Middle Ages, first as Cinderella, then as Snow White. Finally she sends Tristan, a boy in Savannah’s class, back instead to turn him into her prom-worthy prince. When Savannah returns to the Middle Ages to save Tristan, they must team up to defeat a troll, a dragon, and the mysterious and undeniably sexy Black Knight. Laughs abound in this clever fairy tale twist from a master of romantic comedy.

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I LOVE Janette Rallison!  Her writing, in a nutshell, is hilarious.  Every time I am reading one of her books you'll find me giggling like a school girl.  She does awkward like no one else.  Sometimes awkward situations are poorly done and you end up disliking the book because there is just too much awkward and it's painful to read.  Rallison is so good at using the right amount of awkward and instead of making the situation painful it's always hilarious.  But it might just be me as I tend to deal with awkward by laughing a lot.  

My Fair Godmother is the first book in a likely 3 book series.  The common factor in all these books is the ever defunct Chrysanthemum Everstar.  She is a fairy fair godmother with a lot to learn.  You'll probably either love her or hate her, or maybe both.  She is a piece of work.  Little does the main character know what she is getting herself into when she makes a wish and Chrissy answers the call.  

I love how the book starts out reading like Savannah's sister will be the poor Cinderella in this story.  But then she steal's Savannah's boyfriend and Savannah becomes the real Cinderella in this story.  I really liked how originally you don't see Savannah for anything but what's on the outside but as you read on you realize her true depth as a person and see her struggles because of her perceived and sometimes deserved superficiality.  

As with all Rallison's books the romance is sweet, fun and completely and utterly imperfect.  Janette Rallison is LDS but saves all her religious fiction for her pseudonym Sierra St. James.  She also writes fantasy under the pseudonym CJ Hill.  When you pick up a Rallison book you know you are going to get a story that will be fun and enjoyable for a large range of people. 

So if you are looking for an afternoon of good and funny reading go pick up this book and don't forget to grab My Unfair Godmother while you are at it!