Liam Johnstone's Reviews > Stacey The Soccer Fairy

I want to be kind to this book. Because it's a book for whom I am not the intended audience. I read it to my daughter who is five. But I did read it, and the story, my friends, it was not good.
Quite often, you'll find, even in stories intended for younger audiences, a bit of storytelling that reveals things, that has characters you want to root for. This book is nothing like that. It is very strongly "and then this happened, and then this happened, and then this happened, and they saved the day." In fact, I think that the only reason these books have sold at all is because they have fairies on the covers.
I'm thinking I'll get my daughter, who is really into drawing fairies, to make some super-colourful cover art, and I'll write some fairy stories, and she and I can make a bundle on the not-so-discerning readership.
Ah well, on to the next in the series, I guess.