Tanjlisa Marie

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3.5 stars
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I love the world Tanjlisa created in Fairy Godmother, it was so unique and nothing like I've ever read before and so complex yet easy to follow, which is no east feat. World wise, this book is a five star. But, there were some things that bothered me and prevented me from giving it a four or higher, and the last two chapters really ruined Thunder (the heroine) and the story for me.
But more on that later.

The World
As I said in the beginning, I found the world of Codename Fairy Godmother absolutely fascinating and unique. I can safely say I've read nothing like it.
Those fairies? They're nothing like the ones you hear in normal books. They grant wishes for kids--for a small price; the child needs to give another kid the same as he was given before his 32nd birthday, if I remember correctly.
The fairies have a planet of their own; one where it's always night and sand stretches for as far as the eye can see.
There are only females on that planet, and they feed on Fairy Dust - no food or drink otherwise. They all live and breathe their jobs; be it to grant wishes, or make sure adult humans pay back their debt.
And those fairies? They don't understand love, remorse... their emotional capability are very limited--or so they are led to believe.
There was also the leprechaun angle, and the soul mate deal. Both were handled in a way outside the normal Young Adult book.
I also loved how Tanjlisa described actions such as the wrap and the usage of magic. Quite fascinating (I'll be using that word a lot to describe this book)

The Characters
Thunder/The Huntress- I absolutely loved her most of the time, the exception being the very last two chapters. Thunder is unlike any heroine I've ever read of before; she's fierce, at the beginning pretty emotionless, and she actually enjoys inflicting pain, especially on stupid little humans (which I found fascinating. Not sure what that says about me, though).
She kick-ass, independent and breaks the rules whenever she can, but still follows several ones blindly.
Despite loving her, I found her a contradiction. On the one hand she was independent, on the other she very quickly became dependent and submissive to a few people, which
bothered me.
She eventually shook of most of that submissiveness but for a while she acted very unlike herself (but perhaps that was intentional).And still, I loved her. She's a very unique and good character. I think the moment I fell for the little fire ball was when she said she was going to punish the mark for letting her wait (never mind that he had no idea she was waiting and that if he did he’d be running as farther away as possible).

Ciaran - he's the main love interest. I didn't really care for this character; he was abusive, forceful and violent, and despite the description of how sexy and alluring he was, I found him anything but charming. That could've been changed, but more on that in the Romance Section.
But I guess it really shouldn't be changed (yes, I'm quite contradictory myself), because he turned out to be one murdering son of a bitch. Which is why the ending pissed me off.

The rest of the supporting characters were all very colorful (literally and figuratively) and I loved them.
The names of the fairies cracked me (and I found their cheerfulness as creepy as Thunder did. Again, not sure what that means about me) and I loved Solaris. I do hope we'll see more of the adorable genius.

The Romance
It's not often that I dislike a romance, but I do here. I found the relationship between Thunder and Ciaran abusive, a bit so on both ends. But Ciaran was just so aggressive and I really disliked it.
It kind of saddens me that the parts he was apparently charming in, taking her on dates and showing her experiences she'd never tried before, the parts that made Thunder fall for him, were not shown. Because Thunder did love him.
Thunder told us that these things happened, but we never saw it and therefor did not fall for him together with Thunder, but were rather kept thinking he's abusive. I didn't see the development of their relationship, and therefore felt like there was little of it (though, for this book's credit - we do know they have been sort of seeing one another for quite some time, unlike other YA books. We just don't get to see it).
I do feel the author deliberately withheld those moments from us, but I would've understood Thunder's attachment to him better if I were shown those parts.
The unique thing about this book's romance, is that at a certain point, you know for sure this love story cannot end well. That no matter what, those two will not be together at the end, for various reasons. Also, it was quite remarkable how the lovers bloody wanted to kill each other.

The Ending
This book would've been a solid 4 star if not for the last two chapters.
I hated how suddenly Thunder, who may have had a little villainous side to her but knew the difference between good and evil, regretted what she did because of what Queen Mother told her. I couldn't understand what made her decide Queen Mother's words required such a response, and I hated how she suddenly felt what he did wasn't so wrong, even though it was bloody awful. I had a lot of respect and love for Thunder until that moment.
And then deciding to bring him back... arg, it pissed me off.
I'm hoping she will still be awesome the next book, but if she'll spend it trying to revive that bloody murderer, I'll probably won't enjoy it as much as I did this one.


The Time Span
One of the most confusing things, and one I had real issue with, was that time flowed oddly. what do I mean? I mean that suddenly we hear it's been six months, but in our reading not once did it indicate so much time has passed. In fact, to us it seems like a day passed - tops. and it's really odd everything took so long. How did it take six months from the moment she met Ciaran to her first mission as Wish Granter?
I did like how ultimately this book discussed a time period of over a year- not the usual one-to-two-weeks like most YA. In fact, I found little about this book was like other young adult books.

The Writing
I felt it was very well done, though at places a little rough. A lot of potential here. There are some such very kick-ass lines in this book, and incredible descriptions such as the wrap. Wrapping was not invented by this author, but the description was still so captivating and well done.
I got confused at times when suddenly, just for small parts, we got to see things from Ciaran's POV or something.
There was also a lot of objectifying going on. Human males are not shown in a favoring manner...
I loved how Tanjlisa matched her writing to the person talking, such as when Bunnyjoy talked there were no punctuation marks because she never took a breathe between one sentence or the next, or how Ciaran was obviously Irish by his speech.
I also like how this book kept you guessing. You had to keep reading to find out what the hell is actually going on.

In Conclusion
I thought the world in Fairy Godmother was bloody brilliant, and the entire book is just so different than anything you'd ever read before, but not a bad kind of different, if you know what I mean.
The first half of the book was pretty outstanding, but I wasn't a fan of the romance in this book, so the other half was less good for me.
Still, I think there's a lot potential here and kudos for the author for creating something so different than the usual!

Favorite quotes:
“What did trouble the lone Huntress was that after all her meticulous planning, the target was late for his surprise appointment... He would have to endure extra punishment for wasting her valuable time.”
(After she tortures someone:)
“Who are you?” he whispered, still quivering with shock.
“I’m Agent Thunder, your fairy godmother."… (lisätietoja)

This book was the first book I won as a giveaway on Goodreads. Naturally, I was ecstatic.

The idea of this book was very refreshing. I mean, fairy godmothers? Genius.

In this story, the fairy godmothers do grant wishes, but only to children between five and puberty. They also have to pay a price. Later in their life, they have to do something similar to another child what the godmother did to them. If they don't, they are hunted by the Huntresses. Really? I never thought the Huntresses would actually hunt something! Thunder is one of these Huntresses, if you couldn't guess.

When Thunder meets a Leprechaun, one of the enemies of the fairies, she must be assigned. The Queen Mother decides to put her with the Wish Granters, which we call Fairy Godmothers.

Making Leprechauns and Fairies enemies was a brilliant idea.

The queen was very fun to read. She was hilarious at times.

The setting was great. Fairies live on another planet. They can warp, or teleport to Earth. However, at times, I didn't think this planet was thought through enough, and was only used as a plot device.

In some incidents, Reassigned was very funny.

At the beginning of this book, I thought I would love it. The Huntress, or Agent Thunder was epic. She knew how to fight and scare people. The nickname, Homosap, given to humans, was an awesome idea.

There were some twists I didn't see coming, and some I did.

Now, for the parts I didn't like.

First, the way Thunder met Ciaran. He was a lawyer to one of the people Thunder had to hunt down. And he was, like, nineteen. Nineteen. Ciaran's boss was a rich guy, and he decided to hire a nineteen year old.

Some of the fight scenes were stupid. For example, Thunder did a cartwheel towards a guy . A cartwheel. This isn't Xena, okay? And, Karate-chopping a guy's neck. I don't know why, but whenever I see karate-chopping in a book, I start laughing. I do martial art, and I don't Karate-chop anyone. They also screamed a lot during the fighting scenes. No. Not the "fighting" scenes. The actual ones. That annoyed me a lot.

Sometimes, Thunder was an idiot. For example, she didn't realize Ciaran wasn't human when he saw through lots of smoke. Also, in a burning fire, she thought about how hot Ciaran's face was.

There was also some insta-love.

There was some bad grammar. During the telekinesis thoughts, all the sentences seemed to run together.

I didn't like how Thunder kept on screaming, "Holy Fairy Dust!" Yes, I get what it means. It just bugged me a lot.

There was also that Twilight scene where the guy stares at the girl and the waitress is clearly lusting over him, but the guy doesn't see it.

Also, there was this Star Wars moment. Just saying.

All in all, this was a descent book. It was sort of light-hearted and fun.

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Codename Fairy Godmother: Reassigned
Codename Fairy Godmother Book One
By Tanjlisa Marie

When you make a deal with a Fairy Godmother you have until your thirty second birthday to “pay it forward” if not then that is where Agent Thunder comes in to send the unfortunate person to a fate worse than Hell. But when Agent Thunder runs into a Leprechaun she is reassigned by the Queen Mother for her own protection, until Ciaran, the Leprechaun tracks her down.

So you may think this is your average fantasy novel, but you would be extremely mistaken. Thunder is a fighter first and foremost with a no nonsense approach to the human race. I loved when she began working with the children granting their wishes at first she is flummoxed and then she bullies the children into taking five minutes tops, when you add this hilarious aspect to the high powered action then combine the science fiction aspect to the story you have a truly exceptional novel with a little bit of everything for everyone. The only problem I had was that the romance seemed to be a bit lackluster, the author focuses more on her relationship with a particular child and less on her budding romance with Ciaran, which is fine by me it just doesn’t make the final storyline as powerful as it could be. That being said the rest is golden and worth the read.

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