Tuesday 15 November 2011

Review (wicked lovely series)


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Enter a world of faerie romance

            Wicked Lovely  
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Wicked lovely series, book 1
Pub: 2007, HarperCollins publishers
Author: Melissa Marr
Cat: fiction (fairies, magic)
Format: paperback (mid); 328 pp w/ 31 chapters
Age Range: YA, 13+

                Synopsis
Rule 3: NEVER STARE AT INVISIBLE FAERIES.
Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in the mortal world.
     
Rule 2: NEVER SPEAK TO INVISIBLE FAERIES.
One of them, a beautiful faery boy named Keenan, is trying to talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to answer.

Rule 1: DON’T EVER ATTRACT THEIR ATTENTION.
Now it’s too late, Keenan is the Summer King and is determined that Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any cost. Without her, summer itself will perish...

      my Thoughts (review)

So this book takes us into her world. Knowing fairies are out there wasn’t a surprise to Aislinn, she’s been able to see them her whole life, and she knows what not to do when around them. Simply, she’s been living with the rules of it. but when a fairy king becomes interested in her, Ayslinn turns to the only person she can trust to help her figure out what to do, and hopefully get him to leave her alone.
     
Only Keenan knows that Aislinn is his queen and he will do anything to get his court back to what it should be, even if that means getting rid of Seth, the guy she’s in love with.
     
So this book was good, it really got you into the series, make you want to know what’s next without making a big deal, like the book ends, if you get what I mean.

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             Ink Exchange
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Wicked lovely series, book 2
Pub: 2008, HarperCollin USA teen
Author: Melissa Marr
Cat: fiction (fairies, magic)
Format: paperback (mid); 313 pp w/ 37 chapters
Age Range: YA, 13+

                Synopsis
Images cluttered the page, but one tattoo set her nerves on edge: inky-black eyes surrounded by wings like shadows coalescing.

Mine. The need was overpowering. Leslie looked up. “This one,” she said. “I need this one.”
     
But the image is more than just tempting art, and it draws Leslie into a world of shadows and desire—into the world of Faerie.

      my Thoughts (review)
It about an abused girl wanting a tattoo and instead gets trapped into the dark court as there kings source of power.
     
This book takes us into that court and the problem they face, as well as letting us have a bit of sympathy for them, it also makes you said for both the girl and the man that’s fallen for her.
     
It was a ride this book, much more then the first and gave the two men a heartache to live with over the next few books. Though it was more about Niall, who is a character that I really like, in either form, and Irial, they are my favourite characters, besides Seth, but then who can doesn’t like a male like Seth.
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           Fragile Eternity
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Wicked lovely series, book 3
Pub: 2009, HarperCollin USA teen
Author: Melissa Marr
Cat: fiction (fairies, magic)
Format: paperback (mid); 389 pp w/ 35 chapters
Age Range: YA, 13+

                Synopsis
Seth never expected to settle down forever – but that was before Aislinn. Unfortunately, forever takes on a whole new meaning when your girlfriend is a faerie queen...
     
Aislinn never expected to rule the very creatures which had always terrified her – but that was before Keenan. He stole her mortality, and now she faces challenges and enticements beyond any she’d ever imagined.
     
In Melissa Marr’s third mesmerising tale of Faerie, Seth and Aislinn struggle to stay true to themselves and to each other, in a world where one false step could plunge the Earth into chaos...

      my Thoughts (review)
Seth and his becoming a fairy so that he can stay in Aislinn’s world with her. But life’s not all that easy and when Aislinn thinks Seth has run off, she turns to Keenan, and he takes advantage and lies to her about where Seth is.

There’s only one fairy out there that seem to really care that Seth is and though he’s dealing with the fact that he’s the new dark king, he still makes sure that Seth is okay.

This book, to me, was only interesting because of Seth, I my mind wanted to skip over the sad boring parts of Asilinn and got back to Seth.
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         Radiant Shadows
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Wicked lovely series, book 4
Pub: 2010, HarperCollin USA teen
Author: Melissa Marr
Cat: fiction (fairies, magic)
Format: paperback (mid); 340 pp w/ 36 chapters
Age Range: YA

                Synopsis
He was sculpture-perfect but had a tangled feel. Shadow and radiance. He didn’t look much older than her, until she saw the arrogance in his posture. Then, he reminded her of the faeries who walked through the courts and crowds confident that they could slaughter everyone in the room. Like chaos in a glass cage.
“Come dance.”
Ani turned her back and let herself be swept into the crowd.

      my Thoughts (review)
This one’s my fav!!! Serious the best book in the whole series, I thought. What with being about Ain, the dark kings Gabriel’s daughter and her need to run from War, who’s more than sure she’s was saved from death by her ‘brother/son’ because she was meant to let War win. 
               
But that wasn’t why Devin saved her, and when there’s eyes meet years after he finds that he can’t leave her alone either, but for such a different reason.
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      Darkest Mercy
Send the messengers for the Faery Courts.
This is the end.

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Wicked lovely series, book 5
Pub: 2011, HarperCollin USA teen
Author: Melissa Marr
Cat: fiction (fairies, magic)
Format: paperback (mid); 327 pp w/ 42 chapters
Age Range: YA

                Synopsis
Aislinn took a steadying breath. “I need to find out where Keenan is. If he’s not home, I’m going into war without him... which is not ideal. Someone knows where he is.”
      “I do not, my queen. I give you my word that I will find out, thought.” Travish’s restrained facade slipped, and she saw the faery-cruel expression as he asked. “Are there limits to the methods?”
     
The Summer King is missing: the Dark Court is bleeding: a stranger walks the streets of Huntsdale, his presence signifying the deaths of powerful fey. Love, despair and betrayal ignite the Faery Courts, and in the final conflict some will win... and some will lose everything.

      my Thoughts (review)
Well... I haven’t actually read this book. It’s more because I just haven’t gotten around to it, then anything. I actually didn’t realise I hadn’t read it until I did this review.
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This series was good, but I’m not that great a fan of fairies so it wasn’t completely my cup of tea, but it has a very good. The writing style and all that—even greater story line, honestly they are beautiful books, and so well written that they got my further into the series then what I would have normal under the same.


The whole series is about the realigning of the feary world—or that’s what I got—and the love that comes out of it. They start off well and more onto bigger and greater books as the power struggles came wives its way through the lives of those around (or at the ones that we fallow threw the book) them.

There is little sexual tension and blank spots where the actual full on touching is. And there is, a bit of that threw the series, more tension than anything else.

      Others by author
Graveminder, Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions, Faery Tales and Nightmares

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