Which incidentally is supposed to explain why she lives on Sprite and fruit and vegetables, because flowers in a vase of water with a spoonful of sugar added live longer, although I like to think that eating exclusively fruits and veggies makes Laurel a cannibal. She literally lives on Sprite and fruit and vegetables. Meet Laurel: She's your average fifteen-and-a-half-year-old girl who's been homeschooled by her doctor-phobic hippie parents all her life and is now attending public high school.
Be warned that there are SPOILERS of a sort forthcoming-in the vein of it's a spoiler for Twilight that Edward is a vampire and vampires sparkle in the sun. That is something that comes up in the book.īeing that it is now quite late because Krispy and I didn't have a blog planned for today, and I just don't have it in me to write up an in-depth review, I'll just give you a partial summary of what happens in the book. At least they more or less adhered to the old show-don't-tell adage, whereas Wings is bent on doing the opposite: Tell, don't show! Showing is boring and requires more thought and actual work! Just tell! Also symmetry is key to goodness and if you are asymmetrical you are ugly and therefore evil because evolution screwed up on you! Haha! This is the level of writing and story I expected from Twilight, which ended up exceeding my expectations Wings undercut my expectations exponentially.Įven other books that I've rated F ( Nightshade and Crescendo) were better-written than Wings. The writing is puerile, the story is 100% teenage wish-fulfillment, Laurel is Mary Sue to the max, and I honestly cannot believe this book got published. In this extraordinary tale of magic and intrigue, romance and danger, everything you thought you knew about faeries will be changed forever.Īlz's Take: I cannot describe how bad this book is.
Laurel turned to the mirror again, her eyes on the hovering petals that floated beside her head. They were terrifyingly beautiful-too beautiful for words. Pros: Reading it is a cheap alternative to undergoing lobotomy.Ĭons: You probably don't want to be lobotomized.īook Blurb: (from Goodreads) Laurel was mesmerized, staring at the pale things with wide eyes.
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