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Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr (Harper Collins)
I was very intrigued when I first picked up Wicked Lovely. For one, the beautiful, purple cover just screamed magic and otherworldly, and secondly, the hint of the type of fairies that this book would be dealing with was something else that captured my attention.
After all, when one thinks of fairies, one considers them to be benevolent, sparkly-winged creatures that flutter about with magical incandescence.
Melissa Marr paints a different picture of fairies altogether.
Meet Aislin.
For as long as she can remember, she's always been able to see fairies and has been taught by her grandmother to adhere to 3 important rules:
#Rule number 1: Never attract the attention of a fairy
#Rule number 2: Don't speak to the invisible fairies
#Rule number 3: Don't stare at invisible fairies
Aislin has always made a point of sticking to these rules. You see, the fairies that she sees are powerful, dangerous and lethal. Moreover, these fairies are cruel (for the most part) and any discovery about her being able to see them will place not only her life in jeopardy, but also endanger the lives of the ones she loves - including Seth, the best friend/object of her lust and affection.
Still, when a fairy king is after you, it's only a matter of time before the rules change. Keenan, the summer king has been searching for his missing queen for over 9 centuries.
His powers have been bound by the Winter Queen and with the threat of a permanent winter looms and is slowly beginning to take over, Keenan needs to find his Summer queen fast.
Suspecting that Aislin may be his missing queen, he pursues her relentlessly - and whether or not Aislin likes it, life as she knows it is about to change.
I have to say that as much as I wanted to love this book, I was a little disappointed with Melissa Marr's offering.
Don't get me wrong, I liked it enough, but I found that there was hollowness about the Aislin's character that left me wanting more.
I think Melissa Marr does a great job of describing a grungy, phantasmagorical world of depraved, vicious fae, but the problem lies in the fact that she focuses so much on describing the fae and the external, surrounding settings, that it seems as if she's forgotten to focus on giving depth to her characters.
But, if you can look past that, then Wicked Lovely will certainly provide you with an entertaining trip to fairyland and back.
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Have you read any of the books in the Wicked Lovely series? Which one did you prefer?
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I was very intrigued when I first picked up Wicked Lovely. For one, the beautiful, purple cover just screamed magic and otherworldly, and secondly, the hint of the type of fairies that this book would be dealing with was something else that captured my attention.
After all, when one thinks of fairies, one considers them to be benevolent, sparkly-winged creatures that flutter about with magical incandescence.
Melissa Marr paints a different picture of fairies altogether.
Meet Aislin.
For as long as she can remember, she's always been able to see fairies and has been taught by her grandmother to adhere to 3 important rules:
#Rule number 1: Never attract the attention of a fairy
#Rule number 2: Don't speak to the invisible fairies
#Rule number 3: Don't stare at invisible fairies
Aislin has always made a point of sticking to these rules. You see, the fairies that she sees are powerful, dangerous and lethal. Moreover, these fairies are cruel (for the most part) and any discovery about her being able to see them will place not only her life in jeopardy, but also endanger the lives of the ones she loves - including Seth, the best friend/object of her lust and affection.
Still, when a fairy king is after you, it's only a matter of time before the rules change. Keenan, the summer king has been searching for his missing queen for over 9 centuries.
His powers have been bound by the Winter Queen and with the threat of a permanent winter looms and is slowly beginning to take over, Keenan needs to find his Summer queen fast.
Suspecting that Aislin may be his missing queen, he pursues her relentlessly - and whether or not Aislin likes it, life as she knows it is about to change.
I have to say that as much as I wanted to love this book, I was a little disappointed with Melissa Marr's offering.
Don't get me wrong, I liked it enough, but I found that there was hollowness about the Aislin's character that left me wanting more.
I think Melissa Marr does a great job of describing a grungy, phantasmagorical world of depraved, vicious fae, but the problem lies in the fact that she focuses so much on describing the fae and the external, surrounding settings, that it seems as if she's forgotten to focus on giving depth to her characters.
But, if you can look past that, then Wicked Lovely will certainly provide you with an entertaining trip to fairyland and back.
Click here to get your copy.
Have you read any of the books in the Wicked Lovely series? Which one did you prefer?
Sign up for women24's book club newsletter and stand a chance to win our top ten books from Kalahari.net as well as a case of wine from Perdeberg.
