Most Helpful Customer Reviews
|
|
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Courtesy of Teens Read Too, 6 May 2009
What happens when you find out that you are different. Not just a little different but really DIFFERENT?!
Laurel finds herself in public school for the first time when she is a sophomore. She has been homeschooled in a small cabin in the forest. Her parents moved to Crescent City, in Northern California, about an hour away from her cabin to open a bookstore.
At her high school Laurel meets David, and he invites her to join his group of friends. He also becomes her best friend.
As she is getting settled into her new life, she gets a bump on her back - which grows bigger and bigger until she sprouts a pretty blue blossom. This blossom makes her look like she has wings.
She manages to hide it from her family and the people at school, but she and David begin to investigate. He looks at cells of her blossom and her cheeks and comes to the conclusion that she is made of plant cells.
Laurel goes back to her cabin home in search of answers. There she meets Tamani, a gorgeous young man who tells her that she is a fairy. She has been helping the fairies guard a secret that is by her cabin home.
Later, her dad takes ill and Laurel and David risk their lives fighting trolls, who are trying to acquire Laurel's forest home. These trolls are scary! They are big, strong, and the main one is smart.
WINGS is the first of four books, and it leaves us with Laurel living two different lives. Should she go back to her fairy life with Tamani, or stay and guard her adoptive parents and be with David, who Laurel also has feelings for?
I really loved this book. It had everything: love, chases, close escapes, dramatic choices, and lots of magic. The writing was very good, and at some points I had to put down the book just because I was so nervous for the characters, which for me means that I was totally involved in the story.
Laurel is someone who I would want to be my best friend. David is also fantastic. He is what I would love to meet and have in my life. He is accepting, brave, and extremely helpful. Tamani is strong, intense, and sexy! What a choice!
I highly recommend this series. It is fun and very believable. Go now and buy your copy of WINGS!
Reviewed by: Marta Morrison
|
|
|
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The new Twilight?, 15 Jun 2009
Stephanie Myer said it was good, so it had to be good, right? I was a little worried in that the language seemed slightly childish at the very start and I thought I had mistakenly picked up a book aimed at pre-teens. However, either the writing got much, much better, or the story took over to the extent that it left Harper Teen-Ville and became a fantastic fairy tale which I simply couldn't put down. I'm not sure it's the new Twilight, in the sense that it's not quite as epic: the love triangle isn't as immediately compelling as the Bella/Edward/Jacob triangle and frankly, faeries aren't as cool as vampires but, it really is very good. I think the sequel may well be even better. I'm willing to bet the series takes off.
|
|
|
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Wings, 19 May 2009
Wings is a fluidly written story which will appeal to its target audience.
Laurel is a likeable heroine. David, her mortal love interest, is perhaps a little bland at times. Tamani, who completes the triangle, is a much stronger character and comes off the page with more depth. Readers will fall for him. Watch out, Edward Cullen!
The author has some lovely, imaginative touches which make her fairy world stand out from the pack. One I particularly liked was the explanation for the coloured roots of fey hair.
There is one thing that irked me - the goodies were all good looking and the baddies most certainly weren't. So many books do this and it's a little tired. But other than that, a charming read.
|
|
|
Most Recent Customer Reviews
|
by Maggie Stiefvater
by Maggie Stiefvater
by Becca Fitzpatrick
by Lesley Livingston
by Claudia Gray
