With physical beauty, the problems begin for Aza, including imprisonment and a run-in with a poison apple. Aza's illusing is soon revealed but not before she goes to the mirror and asks for beauty. A creature lives in the mirror, giving the queen poor advice on running the kingdom while the king is ill.
Aza learns that the queen has been given beauty through a magical mirror from the Fairy Lucinda, the same one in the book Ella Enchanted.
The prince also is intrigued by Aza, and much to Aza's pleasant surprise they develop a friendship. New York Times bestselling author Jessica Day George re-imagines the classic fairy-tale, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, in this start to an enchanting YA. The queen threatens to harm Aza's family unless Aza illuses a voice for her at the kingdom Sings. This new queen befriends Aza and learns of Aza's gift of song and the ability to "illuse": to mimic any voice and throw it so it appears that someone else is singing. She is invited to the castle as the handmaid for the king's wedding to a mysterious young woman from another land. But, she is kind and has a gift for song, making curious guests drawn to her, including a wise gnome and a duchess. This book tells the story of a girl who finds herself unattractive with her fair skin, black hair, red lips and uses a manipulative talking mirror to enhance. She grows up to be large and not pretty, causing her shame and low self-esteem. Left as a baby, Aza is found by a loving innkeeper and wife who raise her as their own.
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