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I love this series it’s honestly so precious and adorable, I love the characters and the sweet magical world. This time Aziza finds herself troubled for what to do for her brothers party and is then swept into Peri’s birthday party where guests and presents are missing and she, Tiko and Peri spend the whole time trying to find the gifts.

I loved how simple the mystery was in this one with it being a general case of something missing, I loved that we got to explore the palace that Peri lives in and we got to meet some new interesting characters along the journey. It was a really maxing addition to the series.

It had sweet lessons within the book which is so sweet, how to help people with their troubles, how to forgive, how to have confidence in oneself and build confidence in others and how to be a great friend, I loved that.

I also really enjoyed the illustrations again they are always so pretty and perfect, I also loved the additional information about the creatures, the characters names and the mythology behind them, what an amazing addition to the have extra facts to learn.

I really love this series and this book, they are perfect for young children that want a really easy and fun escape they will be transported into the secret fairy world of Shimmerton and will be wanting the next ones in the series quickly.

A book only suited to those just starting on their path through such full-length-seeming novels, this simple (or is it simplistic?) tale concerns a fairy princess's birthday party – where she is expected to give all the guests a present, not the other way round, only they've gone missing. En route through this saga is Aziza, a girl from our world who has been to this fairy realm in two previous books, bringing her humanity and warmth to the worrying fairy. Before the gifts can be found there's a tiny story beat that covers the bullying nature of underhandedness, and a suspect in the missing gifts introduces the fact that some kids can be overwhelmed at full-on parties and might need quiet time.

All told, then, this is very snowflakey. Sickly sweet characters and saccharine situations abound, while the levels of hand-holding from both character to character and from book to us is really what means it will serve a young reader at one short beat in her literary career and no further. An extended scene of positive-mental-attitude just goes to show the whole thing with the presents was a bit of a MacGuffin, just in the story to serve a purpose of moving characters from one place and situation to another, and not the actual key element of the book. I mean, it's easy to not see them as characters in the end, but educational toys designed to teach kindness and not really to entertain. Also, so much is supposed to be based on wondrous colours, which only makes it annoying when we see the whole world through black and white illustrations. I'd have thought a colour comic format would have helped this zing – but I'd also have thought something much less cloying would be better, too.