How To Ditch Your Fairy - Justine Larbalestier

Everyone has their own fairy. Charlie has a parking fairy, useless, especially for a teen who doesn't like cars.  She wants to get rid of her useless fairy and exchange it for a better one.  Rochelle has a shopping fairy, which ensures she always has lovely clothes at bargain prices, and Steffi's fairy ensures he doesn't get into trouble.  However Charlie has to be careful what she wishes for....

Why Read - It was by the same author as Liar (which i also read recently), and although that book annoyed me somewhat I thought I would give the author another chance. Plus the book sounded vaguely interesting, and again its a book from work.  

Another teen book from our Australian author, in fact its the predecessor of Liar.   This book only took me a day too read, mostly because its a teen book with big writing and few pages. I think this book deserves both some merit and some criticism. Firstly I think the subject matter was interesting, everyone having a fairy and each of these were mildly amusing (even warranting a discussion about what fairies we would have.) It was also amusing in points and vaguely funny.  

Its a book I can see appealing to a teenager in the style of writing and the content of the book.  Its one that probably most 14-16 year old teens would read and could somewhat relate to. Although this brings me to my biggest bugbear, I think she was trying to be cool and not being cool (you know like your mum does to try and fit in), Larbalestier made up all these random words that really weren't interesting or funny.  Not knowing much about the Australian culture, these may be related to words they know and use but defiantly unheard of in the UK.   I did look for a glossary to see she explained these and although searching twice I did not spot it until after i finished the book and it was neatly tucked away.  

I think the story lacked some depth to it (but then maybe this was the whole idea of the novel and maybe I should not expect teen books to have any depth).  But I think overall this would make an interesting read for a teenager.