Imagine if you will...
Once upon a time...
Ayortha, a kingdom of beauty and song; of song more than anything else. Music rules the day as the people sing to heal and to play.
One Ayorthaian, Aza, has the purest voice in the entire kingdom. She wins the hearts of the kind prince Ijori, a brute of a duchess of Olixo, the kingdom, and a scheming queen. The only thing is, she isn't the fairest of them all. Abused by the people because of her looks, Aza is shy and intimidated by the world.
When she befriends newlywed Queen Ivi of Ayortha, her world turns upside down as she conquers her fears, loves and predudices based on her looks. Aza soon finds out that her life is more at risk than her looks.
Loosely based of of the Fairy Tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, author of Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levin's musical and magical novel Fairest, pits one girl who must accept who she is before anyone else can, against a society that loves beauty; and not just in a voice.
Aza is a young country girl who goes to the wedding of her Kingdom's King, Oscaro, to the foreign Queen, Ivi. When Oscaro is severely injured to the point of death, Ivi takes control. With the aide of a mysterious advisor, Ivi Not only almost cancel an important ritual, called a Sing, that would ultimately save the king's life, but she dissolves the Kingdom all-important counsel, as well as throwing policies and making absurd declarations. Because of her "laissez-faire" attitude and her squandering the fortune on Aza, her new lady-in-waiting, she soon becomes the most hated Queen in Ayortha.
Aza also must provide the Queen with an Ayorthaian singing voice, which Ivi begrudgingly does not possess. Personally labelling herself as an imposter, Aza finds it difficult to not only avoid the Prince Ijori, but to lie right in front of him as well.
But with ingenuity, courage and cunning like an ogre, Aza learns about her mysterious past, wins the love of Ijori and the adoration of the Kingdom.
That's the book, hows that for a movie?
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