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Although not perfect, Wicked Lovely was everything I ever wanted from Twilight and never got. Deliciously dark, it makes use of fairies as they exist in folklore. I was in love with fairies long before vampires. And we're not talking cutesy, pastel-colored, wish fulfilling tinkerbelles with wings and trailing pixie dust. We're talking fairies like Melissa Marr imagines them. Fey who use glamour to hide, seduce, torment and disguise their inhumanity.
The thing that I loved the best about Wicked Lovely is the tightening noose of inevitability. As stars align and events unfold, Aislinn, although presented with three viable options, is forced to make the only real choice that she can. I liked that Aislinn had guts and a will of her own, that she was battling her own shifting desires as well as the events that are changing her entire life.
The Winter Queen is a bit of a caricature of a bad guy and there's no where near enough Gram in the story. She has all the makings of an interesting character but gets reduced to a plot device.
A wonderfully engaging read, Wicked Lovely falls prey to a very pat ending in which everyone manages to live mostly happily ever after. There are hints that the shift in the power balance between the Summer and Winter courts will have ramifications in the other fairy courts but generally everything ends up right with the world.
Dark, sexy and tense, Wicked Lovely grabbed me and kept me. Definitely an enjoyable read.
The thing that I loved the best about Wicked Lovely is the tightening noose of inevitability. As stars align and events unfold, Aislinn, although presented with three viable options, is forced to make the only real choice that she can. I liked that Aislinn had guts and a will of her own, that she was battling her own shifting desires as well as the events that are changing her entire life.
The Winter Queen is a bit of a caricature of a bad guy and there's no where near enough Gram in the story. She has all the makings of an interesting character but gets reduced to a plot device.
A wonderfully engaging read, Wicked Lovely falls prey to a very pat ending in which everyone manages to live mostly happily ever after. There are hints that the shift in the power balance between the Summer and Winter courts will have ramifications in the other fairy courts but generally everything ends up right with the world.
Dark, sexy and tense, Wicked Lovely grabbed me and kept me. Definitely an enjoyable read.
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Date: 2008-09-23 06:29 pm (UTC)From:I can also forgive a lot for the way that Marr populates the book with fairies the way that I remember them from my childhood: skeletal, shadowy, menacing, frivolous, cruel and inhuman. I was also a Comp Lit major for a while with an emphasis in folklore, so these guys were right up my alley.
That said, everyone's got that one *thing* that puts them off a book. I'm sad that you didn't enjoy this one. I found it an great read, especially post Twilight (OMG!). But, it's not for everyone. Especially if it's not your genre of choice. Wicked Lovely is a good book, but not an exceptional book. It's not something that would necessarily lure readers that aren't already interested in the genre.