Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
1 out of 5 thumbs up
I think that the name of this book should have been Wicked Confusing.
I generally like things that I read, even if they are a little
corny, or there’s parts I don’t really care for. This book, however,
even I have to admit was a stinker.
The book is about a teenage girl who we know very
little about due to the author’s devastatingly poor character
development. This girl, Aislinn (Ash for short- maybe I have no idea
how to pronounce Aislinn, but “Ash” wouldn’t have been
my first guess as a nickname), can see things that most other humans
can’t, faeries (eye roll). She doesn’t tell anyone about her “sight”
because if the faeries find out, it’s bad for her, for some reason. I
guess they’ll kill her or something; it never
really says. Aislinn is pursued by the faerie Summer King, Keenan, who
has been looking for his queen for 900 year or something like that.
Again, it’s not real clear. If she agrees to try to become Summer Queen
and rule with the Keenan, they will restore balance
to the mortal and faerie world, because apparently the world has been
sort of stuck in Winter (because of the evil Winter queen, Keenan’s
mother), but you would never know that unless you could read the mind of
the author. She definitely doesn’t elaborate
much about the state of the world Aislinn lives in to begin with.
Saving the world from perpetual winter would
probably be an obvious choice, but Aislinn has a “friend”, Seth, who
she’s hung up on, though I have no idea why. Seth is probably the
character that I understand the least. He’s a goth or something
like that, I guess, but he paints his nails black and has “tats”
(shudder) and piercings all over. He seems like he’s older than
Aislinn, but I have no idea how old, nor what he does for a living, but
apparently has some money. He lives in a set of train
cars (which he purchased, apparently, so I guess he’s not a bum) which
have people in them all the time, so I’m guessing he’s popular and likes
to party. (?) He seems like a nice enough guy, but not exactly my cup
of tea. So basically the entire book is
Aislinn trying to decide what to do. It’s rather frustrating to read.
Besides the poor character development, which
didn’t give me any reason to root for or care about anyone in this book,
the story is riddled with plot-holes and a lot of instances where, I
felt, the author didn’t feel like writing something
and wanted you to read her mind instead. I remember reading along and
felt like I had missed something. So I’d back-track a little bit to see
if I had missed anything, but, there was nothing there to miss. Also,
she would mention a name, or a place, with
absolutely no explanation. As if the reader should already know what
she’s talking about, but there’s no other mention of this person or
place ANYWHERE. It’s just really confusing throughout. That and the
teenage whining is especially bad. I know, I know.
It’s a youth fiction book, so there’s bound to be a little moodiness,
but this is just ridiculous.
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