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madisone34 's review for:
Wings
by Aprilynne Pike
I recently re-read this book it has been almost 10 years since I first read it. I was obsessed with this book then and I am now! April Lynne Pike took the idea of a faerie and created something new and unique and to this day I have yet to read something quite it. When I finished reading this for the second time I took a chance by looking at the reviews here on Goodreads. I wanted to see how people were taking the book now with this new surge in reading with COVID. The reviews to say the least were disappointing. Yes, there were some aspects of the book that did not age well. However, the extraordinary imagination it took to come up with a faerie book that didn't follow the same path as others is something else.
Laurel, the main character, is a ordinary girl that moves to a big city after being homeschooled in her families cabin for most of her life. She should be worried about puberty, starting a new highschool and making friends. For Laurel, this is not the case. She wakes up one morning with a bump on her back thrusting her into a world she never could have dreamed of. With the help of her new friend David she is able to figure out what she is. Then there is Tamani the handsome man in the woods who makes her feel at home. Laurel, Tamani, and David have to discover why a man wants Laurels family cabin so badly and how to refute him.
The writing for this book is easy to read. The descriptions are not overly complicated and it is easy to sink into the book. Laurel as a character is exactly how you would expect a teenager to be. There are times when she is annoying and other times where it's easy to wish to live her life. The plot itself is good. I personally don't think that the story was to fast and I got relevant information when it was necessary. The innovation of the background of faeries and the stories the author weaved into the book both made sense and were individual in a suprising way.
5 out of 5!
Laurel, the main character, is a ordinary girl that moves to a big city after being homeschooled in her families cabin for most of her life. She should be worried about puberty, starting a new highschool and making friends. For Laurel, this is not the case. She wakes up one morning with a bump on her back thrusting her into a world she never could have dreamed of. With the help of her new friend David she is able to figure out what she is. Then there is Tamani the handsome man in the woods who makes her feel at home. Laurel, Tamani, and David have to discover why a man wants Laurels family cabin so badly and how to refute him.
The writing for this book is easy to read. The descriptions are not overly complicated and it is easy to sink into the book. Laurel as a character is exactly how you would expect a teenager to be. There are times when she is annoying and other times where it's easy to wish to live her life. The plot itself is good. I personally don't think that the story was to fast and I got relevant information when it was necessary. The innovation of the background of faeries and the stories the author weaved into the book both made sense and were individual in a suprising way.
5 out of 5!