I still love Alex Flinn and her modern day spin offs of fairy tales, but this one didn't ring quite as true with me. Towards the beginning I kept losing interest in the story line and I'm not sure I liked the layout of the book with the switching between the stories that were Kendra's attempts to help which ended up going sometimes horribly wrong. I enjoyed the main story of Emma and Lizette and I also mostly enjoyed the short stories of gone wrong magic, but I didn't like the overall formatting. 
 Emma was a likeable character and so was Kendra, but I had a hard time reading about the part of Lizette because it felt too contrived for a character. I was surprised Accelerated Reader rated this book for upper grade - I would have said middle grade based on the rated PG (maybe PG13 if you want to push it) story and maybe it is also because of this,that I give this book a 3/5.