Wings
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4.9 • 50 Ratings
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
An extraordinary faerie tale of magic and mystery, romance and danger, described by Stephenie Meyer as ‘a remarkable debut’.
Laurel is an ordinary fifteen-year-old high school girl. But something incredible is happening to her. She is changing.
Now Laurel is about to discover that a deep and powerful magic holds the key to her destiny.
Reviews
‘Wings is a great example of the urban faerie tale’ TheBookBag.co.uk
About the author
Aprilynne Pike has been spinning faerie stories since she was a child with a hyperactive imagination. She completed her BA in creative writing at the age of twenty at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. Aprilynne currently lives with her husband and three kids in Arizona.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Pike's debut novel a faerie story with a touch of Arthurian legend offers a botanical twist on the genre. Laurel Sewell, the new girl in town, discovers a strange "zit" on her back, which blooms into a flower. With the help of her friend and growing love interest, David, with whom she entrusts this information, Laurel finds out that she is a faerie, and that faeries are really highly evolved plants (Pike gives readers hints: Laurel prefers to have lunch outside and eats little besides vegetables and Sprite). Tamani, her sexy faerie guardian, completes the love triangle, as he protects Laurel from encroaching dark forces and fills in the blanks about her past. As Laurel and David never muster much chemistry, her rocky journey of self-discovery is the main draw ("It makes me want to go home and go to sleep and wake up to find that all of this is a dream. That the flower, the bump, even public school never happened"). Pike's novel mythology should win fans for this book, billed as the first in a series. Ages 12 up.
Customer Reviews
Wingz
I loved this book,
I have taken my time reading this book but I have finished it.( I have only written this review after the second book purely of the reasoning because spells is first in the alphabet well before wings anyway) I haven't reads all of the third book yet but so far so good well I say good but I really mean I love it. So I will tell you why this book is mostly loved by all of the readers well where do I start? Laurel (the main character) moves from her home town to move to crescent city then this funny looking 'estate agent' comes to look at the land of the house that they have just moved from her old house has a lot of land that comes with it. So her foster mum and dad need the money from the land to pay off there bills so laurel goes to this new days and a the first term there finds there is this lump on her back and laurel is soo confused but she keeps quit until she finds out that she is a... Come on you really thought I'd actually tell you haha. The book ,why is it good? Well it's good because it's a thinking book putting all of the bits in the right place, and it's easy to do some times it helps if you jot things down in a book I only mean a few words but it helps or if you put book marks in books that helps, but always have a dictionary nearby. Well that's all you need to know about this book so do you like the sound of this books? I certainly do if I haven't all ready read this book :)
AMAZING!!!!!!
I think this book is amazing! I bought the FREE sample. Then i bought the actual book. And know i have all the books in the series in real life!!! I absolutely ❤ this book!
Wings
This is definitely a book worth getting! It has a great storyline and characters that you will fall in love with, it's the first book in the series and it successfully sets the tone for the three following books. You will not want to put them down!