![]() ![]() I was getting so annoyed at Aza’s obsession with beauty and fixation on her ugliness. ![]() ![]() There is a frustratingly amount of negative self talk that even though there is growth at the end, dominates the story and theme. As an elementary school social worker, I don’t know if I would necessarily recommend this to a young girl. (The side characters also weren’t as well developed either though so this is partly due to the writing) I would have thought this the perfect book to include music like the Ella Enchanted one, but nope. Even by the end of the book, I was struggling keeping the names of minor characters straight because there was no significant differentiation between the voices. Lots of negative self talk, but was enjoyable ![]()
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