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​Wicked Lovely RULE #3

Don’t stare at invisible faeries.
RULE #2: Don’t speak to invisible faeries. RULE #1: Don’t ever attract their attention.

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"Donia held the Winter Queen's staff - and hoped. for a moment she even believed, but then ice pierced her, filled her like shards of glass in her veins."

"You are one of us now. Summer fey. Even if you weren't, you would still be mine, still belong with us. You drank faery wine with me. Haven't you read that in you storybooks, Aislinn? Never drink with faeries."

Critics

All booksellers know there are too many galleys and not enough time to read them all. So why would I take the time to read one twice? Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr (HarperTeen, June), a dark and romantic urban fantasy about a girl who can see faeries, proved to contain that rarest of combinations: both an exciting plot and gorgeous writing, the kind that makes you want to stop and reread a sentence or an entire paragraph. . . . Amazingly, this is Marr's first novel, and it's expertly crafted, alternating effortlessly between four different characters. Furthermore, it's chockful of ancient faery lore, while at the same time bringing to life an ultramodern girl. Captivating!
 * --Galley Talk in Publisher’s Weekly**

Marr does a number of things very well. I've already mentioned her characterization and the easy way she has of getting background information across without being obvious about it. But she also has a fine ear for both dialogue and descriptive prose. Her plot and subplots keep you on the edge of your seat, and continue to surprise right through to the end. And she's done a terrific job of integrating the dangers, folklore, and flexible morality of faerie with the real world. What I like best, however, is how, except for the evil Winter Queen who's a bit of a stock villain, Marr's characters don't fit easily into "good" and "bad" designations. They have good motivations for why they do the things they do, and they're fallible. Better yet, they learn from their mistakes. This is a debut that reads like the work of a seasoned pro and I can't wait to see what she comes up with next.
 * --Charles de Lint, “Books to Look For,” The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction**

“Wicked Lovely is a sexy, updated fairy tale as timeless as the seasons and as modern as titanium body jewelry. Marr’s fey are gorgeous, terrifying creatures. I couldn’t put this book down.”
 * --Clare B. Dunkle, author The Hollow Kingdom trilogy**

Trailer This trailer shows really understandable what happens in the book. It shows the main characters Aislinn, Keenan the Summer King, Seth, Donia, and Bira the Winter Queen. In the beginning it shows Aislinn how she is able to see faeries. The next character is Donia who has to carry the cold in her because the sceptre decided that she is not the right one for Keenan. So Keenan is still looking for the right girl. In the trailer the boy who comes in is Keenan who found now Aislinn. He thinks she is the one. When Aislinn is on the phone she talks to her best friend Seth for whom she has strong feelings. The Winter Queen, who is on the roof in the trailer, is Keenan’s mom, and she tries everything that Keenan doesn’t find his girl. She was also the one who made this bane on the staff. The part when all those girls, or faeries, are dancing is when Aislinn has her first date with Keenan and drinks faery wine that turns her into a Summer Fey.

The Staff The whole story started with this bloody sceptre that belongs to the Winter Queen. It is her fault that a bane is on this staff. It decides if the girls that Keenan, the Summer King, chooses for stay together with him are strong and good enough for the position of a Summer Queen or not. In 900 years just one girl was brave enough to go for this test and take that staff. But she wasn't the right one for him, and now she has to carry all the ice and cold in her till the next girl tries it. And this next girl is Aislinn, the main character of this book. She knows that it is a really important decision that she has to make now; take the staff and hope that she is the right one or not. She could be the key to safe the world from the cold. But is she really the right one? And if not, she will have to suffer alot with all the cold in her, and for what? For nothing. What way she will go is in the end the decishion of the scaptre.

Faery Wine When Aislinn goes to the first date with Keenan, to a carnevall, Keenan gives her this delicious drink. It was so good that she could not stop drinking it. She never drank something like that before. No wonder; Later she finds out that this drink was not just normal wine, no, it was faery wine. Whoever drinks faery wine turns into a faery, and there is no way to get out of that situation. So, now that Aislinn drank it, she is on her best way to become a faery. But for her there is one way out of this whole situation; She has to take a certain test to become Keenan's Summer Queen. If she doesn't take it before she is completly turned into a Summer Fey, she is stuck as a faery. Aislinn doesn't want to become one of those hundreds Summer Feys that alredy exist. All those Summer Feys drank once this wine but they were too scared to take the test. But she doesn't want to be Keenan's Summer Queen either. So, she tries to find an other solution or at least a good compromise.

First Quote: Aislinn has always seen faeries. Her grandmother tells her since she is a little girl roles that she mustn’t break. It should make it possible for her to live together with faeries. they can not know that she can see her otherwise they would probably blind her. The three main roles are: Don’t look at invisible faeries, don’t speak to invisible faeries, and don’t ever attract their attention. But exactly all those roles stop working for Aislinn. Two faeries start fallowing her to everywhere. They make themself visable and try to talk to her and make her go with them. she finds out that one of those two faeries is not just a normal one; no, he is the king of the faeries. She has to change her roles now. Instead of just ignoring the faeries, she tries now to find out what they whant and what she can do that they go away.

Second Quote: Donia is the first girl that Keenan chose as his Summer Queen. Now she has to take the staff to proof that she is the right one, the one that Keenan is looking for. Keenan loves her, and he wouldn’t care what the sceptre says, but the Winter Queen is evil and put a bane on it when she killed Keenan’s dad. If the sceptre doesn’t think that the girl is the right one, all the ice and cold will flew into the girl’s body, and she has to carry it in her till the next girl that Keenan chooses is brave enough to make this test and take the sceptre. And exactly that happened when Donia took the sceptre. That’s how the story starts. For a long time no other girl wants to try to take the staff and turn instead just to a Summer Fey. And the next girl that is chosen for Keena is Aislinn.

Third Quote: As Aislinn realizes that she is fallowed by a king of the faeries, she knows that she can’t live with her old roles anymore. She needs to change them. She decides to talk to him. She wants to find out what she can do that he goes away again. So, when Keenan, the Summer King, asks her for a date at a carnival she goes with him. At this carnival she realizes that the most people who are there are faeries. She also drinks faery wine, without knowing what it is. Later, she finds out that this special wine makes it impossible for her to have a normal live anymore. This wine turns her slowly into a faery. Soon she would become one of the hundred Summer Fey. A Summer Fey is a girl that was one time chosen by Keenan but did not want to take the test to proof that she is the right one for him. Now that Aislinn drank this wine she has two options; first, she can become a Summer Fey, or she takes the test. A way to get beck in her old life does not exist.