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cobycoyle 's review for:
Wicked Lovely
by Melissa Marr
Right. So I remember loving this series as a kid.
It’s one of the old YA’s that does not hold up.
Are we just going to ignore the fact that Seth is out of high school (and drinking and tats and piercings and lives on his own- so, 21?) and while age gap relationships can be healthy and fine, the fact that he and a senior in high school are together is just…icky to me. And I know I know, “faeries are immortal so technically Keenan is hundreds of years old”, “Edward Cullen was super old because immortality too” blah blah, I can accept that this is different in the fantasy world. Seth is not a faerie. He is a grown ass man with a high schooler.
The premise is interesting, and I think Donia was a well written character. The rest of the characters are meh to me. I love that Aislinn wasn’t letting Keenan bully her into shit she didn’t want. What I think doesnt make sense (and is also ew, weird) is that he went for her mom, her mom died because she refused him, and then he courts countless more girls before “stumbling upon” Aislinn? It was written as a weird coincidence and that makes no sense to me….and is also ew. If a guy had tried to be with my mom and then tried with me I’d throw him in the ocean.
It’s one of the old YA’s that does not hold up.
Are we just going to ignore the fact that Seth is out of high school (and drinking and tats and piercings and lives on his own- so, 21?) and while age gap relationships can be healthy and fine, the fact that he and a senior in high school are together is just…icky to me. And I know I know, “faeries are immortal so technically Keenan is hundreds of years old”, “Edward Cullen was super old because immortality too” blah blah, I can accept that this is different in the fantasy world. Seth is not a faerie. He is a grown ass man with a high schooler.
The premise is interesting, and I think Donia was a well written character. The rest of the characters are meh to me. I love that Aislinn wasn’t letting Keenan bully her into shit she didn’t want. What I think doesnt make sense (and is also ew, weird) is that he went for her mom, her mom died because she refused him, and then he courts countless more girls before “stumbling upon” Aislinn? It was written as a weird coincidence and that makes no sense to me….and is also ew. If a guy had tried to be with my mom and then tried with me I’d throw him in the ocean.