

However, Aza's voice garners as much attention as her looks, for Ayortha is a land of song, and Aza is an amazing singer. Her prodigious size and her odd coloring – milk-white skin, dragon tongue lips, and hair that seems to be frying-pan black – are greatly at variance with the land's standards of beauty and often make her the target of stares and rude comments.

The kingdom of Ayortha, the setting of the story, is the neighboring kingdom of Kyrria, where Ella Enchanted was set and the story makes several allusions to the previous work.Īza, the adopted daughter of innkeepers in Ayortha, has always hated her appearance. It uses some plot elements of the classic Snow White and is set in the same world as Ella Enchanted.

Fairest is a 2006 novel by Gail Carson Levine.
