Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Review: Wicked Lovely


Fairies are both wicked and lovely

Personally, I've never seen one, unless I mistook it for a butterfly. But the ones in this book couldn't be mistaken for anything: they are human size. They feel love, hate, regret ... very much like we do. And at this moment, they are feeling pain. There is a savage battle between Winter and Summer Fey that for some reason puts, Ash, a regular high school girl in the middle. 

To be honest the Fey were given such a bad rep in the story, that I couldn't see them as anything other than an enemy. Even Donia, a sad and tortured Fey, couldn't get my sympathy. She was too passive. Instead, I concentrated on the on/off relationship between Ash and Seth, which sadly lacked depth as well.

Hopefully, the Fey are given better attention in the second book, Ink Exchange.

7 comments:

  1. I didn't like the Ash/Seth relationship either. I always wanted Ash and the Summer King together. The first novel was full of cliches. I found myself hooked in the series by book three, and LOVED the rest of them. Hope you do too!

    Alise @ Readers In Wonderland

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    1. Thanks. I read somewhere that the lead changes in the next book, but wasn't too sure if the story got better. I'll be sure to continue it now :)

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  2. I am not a fairies lover but this was the first book I read on that concept and I liked it. I guess because I was new to the genre? Because I haven't been able to stomach another one.

    Anyways, even though I liked it, I am not going to read the next one/s.

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    1. I wonder what it is about fairies that make us ... distrust them so?

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    1. Whoops! Didn't mean to delete that! I liked Ink Exchange better than Wicked Lovely if that gives you any hope!

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    2. Thanks. I'll give it a try!!

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