Review: Fairest

Fairest by Marissa Meyer
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

If you haven’t read the Lunar Chronicles, then you’re missing out! This has been a YA series taking the reading nation by storm!

This installment, some people might overlook it due to the fact it is counted as a novella, but please don’t miss this one. Fairest tells the backstory of Queen Levana, one of the meanest, self-centered, horrible, greedy, crazy, psycho bitch, and feared queen, and why she is the way she is.

Scared for live by her older sister, Levana has always had to use her “glamour” to hid her scars. Here the author did a great job on not dragging the poor pity party out so long. She longs for someone to love her for who she is, but is so afraid to show her true self. When she loves someone and he can’t love her back because he’s still in love with his dead wife and mother of his child.
One of the things the Ms. Meyer did with this story, is she made her feel the pain, longing to be loved, the fear, the hunger, the power, which Levana wants. She actually makes you feel sorry for Levana, and then slowly introduces you to why she changed and became the most feared queen on Luna. The writing of this book, didn’t take away from the villain we’ve all grown to despise in the series, but she showed us that Levana was a good person, at one time, and how, one night she started changing and why she became who she is. Yet, in the series, you still won’t like her, which I feel, Levana is the perfect villain and fits the stories so well, without her, the story is just another story. But with this book, you are allowed to see all the layers of her, without losing seeing her true colors.

This is a book you can read at any part of the series, which I do hope people do read this book, as it gives you some insight to the Queen.



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