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Reviewed by Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite
Fairylicious is book one in Tiffany Nicole Smith's Fairylicious Series. It's the story of Bex Carter, a twelve-year-old girl who lives with her little sister, Reagan, and her grandmother, Nana. Bex is big on fairies and has posters and figurines all over her room. Bex's father is in jail, and her mother left the two girls with their grandmother several years before the story begins. Both girls hoped for a long time that she would return, but Bex is starting to accept the fact that her mother may never come back. Bex is a student at the GATE Center, an elite school for talented and gifted children. Her talent is outdoor sports, especially soccer, and being tall and big for her age helps her participate as the only girl on the school's sports teams. She has three best friends who are all small for their ages and whom she used to defend when they were picked on by other kids. Nana lives on a fixed budget, so the girls don't have many luxuries. Bex's birthday gets bumped ahead several weeks so she can share her cousins' birthday party. When she makes her birthday wish, she gets a bit more than she bargained for.
I started smiling about a page into Fairylicious, and it kept getting better. Tiffany Nicole Smith's children's fantasy book is quite remarkable. Her main character, Bex, is scrappy, intelligent and resourceful, but beyond that, she's loyal to those she cares about. Bex is not your typical girly girl, as arch-enemy Ava's mother points out on a shopping expedition. Bex doesn't need to be. This is a splendid and empowering book that tells kids it's okay if they're different, have unusual family backgrounds, or don't fit within gender or social norms -- and it does it in the most entertaining children's book I've read in some time. While it's geared toward children and preteens, I found it to be great fun and highly recommend it.
