Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand

This is technically another book in the Disney fairies series, although this one is hardbound and larger than the standard softbound books.

It's also not as good.

The first thing I didn't like about the book is the artwork. It is definitely inferior to the artwork in the regular Disney Fairies books. It's pale and washed-out, and the fairies look remarkable unlike the fairies in the regular series of books. It's actually bothersome.

The second thing I didn't like about the book is the story. Things do go wrong in the other Fairies books, but nothing horrible happens, things are usually sort of funny at times, and the stories are sort of light in nature.

Not this book. It's like someone wanted to do a horror story based in the Fairies world. Fairies die. Fairies betray other fairies (and mermaids betray other mermaids). Greed and the drive for power seem foremost. This is a very dark, very nasty sort of book, totally out of character with the regular series of Fairies books that have been put out.

A very poor, very disappointing, at times upsetting book that really should never have appeared in the Fairies series.

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