Personal Rating: 2.5 Stars Goodreads Rating: 3.69 Stars Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries. Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in the mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty - especially if they learn of her Sight - and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens. Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries. Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to answer. Rule #1: Don't ever attract their attention. But it's too late. Keenan is the Summer King, who has sought his queen for nine centuries. Without her, summer itself will perish. He is determined that Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any cost — regardless of her plans or desires. Suddenly none of the rules that have kept Aislinn safe are working anymore, and everything is on the line: her freedom; her best friend, Seth; her life; everything. (goodreads.com) To be honest, I’m not sure why I read this book. It was really cheap at a library book sale and I really can’t resist library book sales. A library book sale to me feels like… I don’t know… the books are like the toys in Toy Story and they need to be read again. That’s not a good feeling for my wallet, let me tell you. Anywho, I grabbed this book at a sale and I read it. Oh, I also read the sequel. And the sequel’s sequel. But that’s where I stopped. I didn’t think I could make it through two more of these things. So basically this is a book about a special girl who can see faeries, but the faeries don’t know that, which is good because the faeries are not fairies they are faeries. Notice the “E”? A quick note on magical lore stuffs: fairies have a more positive connotation, like fairy godmothers and glitter, where as faeries are generally up to no good, like scary trickster sparkle gangs who mostly do inappropriate things and drown people. Understand? Good. The magical creatures in Wicked Lovely are the kind with an “E”. They are into all sorts of shenanigans that make you cringe and start feeling more comfortable around iron (which supposedly keeps these creeps away). Aislinn, whose name I still do not know how to pronounce (but seriously, is it pronounced like Ashlyn? Because they all call her Ash, but that doesn’t exactly look like it would be pronounced Aslyn), is not a bad character. Kind of reminds me of almost every other YA female protagonist ever, but I don’t know why I expect anything different at this point. From reading teen fiction I have gathered that if you are a teenage girl who has some impossible task to accomplish you are going to be rather boring. What irritates me the most is that these protagonists never are excited about the adventure they are about to go on. I mean, sure, a lot of the time the adventure turns out to be horribly painful and someone will probably die, but before it even gets started they are such downers. I’m not saying Aislinn should have been excited about a faerie king stalking her, but she’s not even a little bit interested in the faeries she can see? Not even a little? No? Okay, fine. For once I’d like a main character who is pumped about the magical things happening around her and not worried that the magic will interrupt her prom or throw her normal life off course. Let’s talk about Keenan, shall we? *rolls eyes* Doesn’t every girl just dream of having a clingy faery king trying to woo them in order to save the world from eternal winter? I’m not sure how much I can say about Keenan without spoiling the plot, but he’s not really the ideal man, m’kay? He’s nine hundred years old, for starters - and okay, given the immortality thing that seems so popular with the kids these days, that’s not the worst thing about him - and he’s also been trying to get girls to fall in love with him for centuries. Not creepy enough for you? What if I told you that every girl he dates has to stay by his side for all eternity even if she’s not “the one” or else she’ll die? Still not creepy enough for you (if this is the case you have issues, my friend)? On one particular date he drugs a girl with faery wine *sternly glares at book*. I don’t have fond feelings for Keenan, and I don’t care how noble his intentions are. Then we’ve got Seth. Kind of the polar opposite of Keenan. Probably my favorite character in the book. I’m not so much of a fan of him in the next two books, but he was pretty good in this one. He’s Aislinn’s best friend and quite gentlemanly. Standing by Aislinn’s side even when she tells him about faeries, he’s by far the most loyal and understanding person in this book. All around pretty nice guy. You know, until he hangs out with faeries for three books (I don’t even want to know what he’s like by the end of the final book). You know what my problem is? I like stories with fairies in them, but I keep getting stories with faeries in them. Unfortunately, there are very few of the former in teen/YA books. I know a lot of teenagers like the gritty dark stuff and that’s fine for them, but what about the few of us who want sunshine and happy endings? Maybe that’s just me. I WANT A HAPPY TEEN BOOK, GOSH DANGIT (pardon my language)! Oh well, I’ll just go back to the children’s section. The plot, the plot, the plot: it was fine. It kept me reading and got me to pick up the sequel. The sequel was even darker than this one unfortunately, but I don’t know what I was expecting when one of the main characters is the literal king of darkness. Third book was an eensy bit lighter, but it got really weird. I think the main issue with the plot of this series is that it keeps teasing you with rising action, hinting at problems with the romance, boldly declaring that there will be a war, but without any actual action happening. I think out of the three that I read the first one was best at actually wrapping up its plot, but the rest just seemed to be building up to something that I don’t think was going to happen until the last book. Do I recommend this book? Not really, unless you’re into the dark faery stuff and don’t mind a plethora of creepy faery kings. The best thing I can say about it was that the writing style was… oh wait, I didn’t like that either. It jumped around a lot and it was hard to follow the character switches back and forth. I don’t have anything good to say I guess. Thanks for reading this review, hopefully the next book I review I’ll like a little better. I’m sure you guys would like some book recommendations instead of me complaining a bunch. It could be a while… bad books are more fun to review. Well, I’m off to put some iron bars on my window and fill my pockets with salt. Ciao! Image source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/305234.Wicked_Lovely
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