7/7/2023 0 Comments Wings by Aprilynne Pike![]() ![]() ![]() But the readership loves them, and you can see why. If teen fiction were to be believed, there's more of the supernatural in today's urban environments than there ever was in Olympus and Arcadia. If it's not faeries, it's vampires and werewolves. A strange but beautiful man waits for her in the forest behind their old cabin, and another strange, but misshapen and ugly man wants to buy it from her parents.ĭeep and powerful magic is seeping into her life. Something incredible but terrifying is also happening. There's an instant spark between them.īut this isn't the only change Laurel is facing. Thank heavens, then, for David, who takes Laurel under his wing. All her little oddities - wearing tank tops on sunny days, eating barely anything other than fruit, a hatred of salt - seem to mark her out from the crowd, and not in a good way. She liked being home-educated and she finds being in such a frenetic and busy environment rather a strain. Her family moves into town from the country, her father buys a bookstore, and Laurel finds herself at school for the first time. Laurel has lived a relatively normal, if somewhat sheltered, life over her first fifteen years. ![]() Fans of the genre will thoroughly enjoy it. ![]() Summary: An enjoyable piece of urban faerie fiction with many of the usual tropes, a love triangle, and some very nasty trolls. ![]()
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