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Wings is the first book in Aprilynne Pikes Wings series, a four part series about Laurel, who, as the main protagonist, irritates me. She is a weak willed little girl who hates the idea of public school and has led a very sheltered life. She has feelings for one guy but can't help stringing along another. It isn't her fault, but she bugged me for most of the book, so did her love interest David. The story was good and I liked it enough to overlook David's character flaws and Laurels weakness. I did like some things about her though, I liked her curiosity and drive to figure herself out. I loved Tam, I wanted to hate him, really I did, but I loved him. It was an okay book, I liked it, but it was slow in most parts. Pike was very good at making sure the slow parts (there were a lot of them) not as boring as they would have been if they were done by anyone else.


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Wings Aprilynne Pike Books Reviews

I had not heard of Aprilynne Pike until I was in a small conversation with her and a couple other authors on Twitter. After that conversation, I looked into her books and decided to give them a try. Wings is the first of a series and the first book of Pike's that I read. I went in expecting nothing and was pleasantly surprised.

Laurel has always been just a little different, but it was always explainable. She stood out, but not too much. She's starting public school for the first time after being homeschooled for most of her life. She's making friends and trying to blend in. She never expected to be so different from everyone else. When she starts growing petals out of her back, she can't run from the truth. She turns to David, her first friend, to help her understand what is happening and from there the story grows.

Laurel isn't quite the strong character I love, but I can understand why. She's young, starting public school for the first time, dealing with things she expected and some things she never expected. She grows through the novel, though, and that's why I don't mind it. She's gaining strength and confidence and that's what I find important. She's learning to accept her new life and find a way to live her human life while accepting her faerie life. I'm looking forward to seeing where Pike takes her in the next novels.

David is the perfect first relationship. They start as friends and grow from there. It's sweet and swoony, and I'm glad Pike has written a relationship like this. It feels real and is a good connection for Laurel to the human world. David keeps her thinking and rational, when everything happening around her screams at her to lose that rational side. I'll be interested to see how this relationship grows and changes in the coming novels after what happened at the end of Wings.

As far as a first novel goes, this provides great set-up and world building. There was a little action and plot development, but for the most part, Wings is centered on establishing the faerie world and Laurel's journey to accepting who she is. There is plenty of time to create action and drama, so I'm relived Pike focused instead on her characters in this novel. I feel like I know them and that's a good feeling to have when I read the rest of the series.

Wings was a great first novel. Pike has built an interesting world that has drawn me in and made me care about her characters. There are puzzle pieces being dropped and it'll be fun to see where Pike takes the rest of the story.
I came across this series when it appeared on my reading class for a literature class called Women of Faerie. I love all things magical and fae so I was excited to read this series.

From a technical standpoint, this book was written from the point of view of a narrator, something that I see less and less of in YA literature. I generally like first-person stories better because I feel like I get the main character better, but this really worked for this story line and the characters involved in it.

The faery mythology in this book was different than most of what I have read before, these faeries very different from the traditional winged creatures we are used to in literature. Instead, these faeries really tied in the concept of nature by being less humanoid and more plant-based. With that, a faery's appearance changed in accordance with the kinds of food they, as in their hair and eye colors. I loved that little detail! Also interesting is the fact that their "wings" had a real purpose beyond being pretty or for movement. All of these things created an interesting and refreshingly different world.

The characters in this book were fantastic. Laurel is our main characters and is seemingly your typical teenage girl. She is the new girl, in public school for the first time in her life. She is beautiful and she knows it without being stuck on it, slim with blonde hair and green eyes. Instead, she is feeling shy and out of her comfort zone when we first meet her. She has been homeschooled until now, living in a tiny town, giving her a complete lack of social interaction with kids her age. That awkwardness makes her real. I loved her loyalty to her friends, even despite all she learns about her history as a faerie. She doesn’t forget them when she discovers the truth about herself. Her “back and forth” between Tamani and David sometimes bothered me, even though I understood it and it was essential to the story line. David is fascinating in that his character accepts Laurel with very little hesitation, perhaps even before she accepts herself. He is highly intelligent and very much a scientific mind which I think helped him accept her. Tamani is interesting because he is rather otherworldly. He is fae, like Laurel, and has lived in the human world just about as long as she has. But they are very different people despite this. She was raised in the human world, living with the ideals and ways of humans. Tamani, even though he technically lived in the human world, lived apart from it. He understood human ways on the surface, but always came across as aloof from human ways.

Things to love about Wings...

--The mythology. As I talked about, it was very different than most books today and I really enjoyed that. It helped to emphasize the nature elements of fae culture.
--The tie-in with established mythology. This book blended Pike's created fae mythology with the mythology of Avalon, my pet favorite.

Things I wanted more or less of...

--A little less Twilight feel. At the beginning, there was a bit of that Edward/Bella feel to it, the pacing maybe a little slow for some reason. Despite my lack of love of that Twilight feeling, I do think that the pace actually served to further the impact of Laurel's self-discovery.
--A little more explanation. I never really found out why gaining access to the Gate to Avalon suddenly became so important to the trolls. Why now? And was it for their use, or someone else’s?
--A little less judgment. Laurel's mother and her reaction to Laurel's reality bugged me.

Some quotastic goodness...

--Typical mother advice. Sweet, honest, and completely useless (7).

--This was way more than some strange manifestation of puberty. Mood swings, disfiguring acne, even periods that went on for months were at least semi-normal. But growing oversized flower petals out of your back from a zit the size of a softball? This was something else entirely (49).

--Her lips filled with the sweetness of his mouth, and Tamani held her against him as if he could somehow pull her inside of him, make her part of him. And for a moment, she did feel like part of him. As if their kiss bridged the gap between two worlds, even if only for that one brief, sparkling moment (289).

My recommendation A fantastic read for anyone charmed by fae lore, Avalon, and the epic struggle between good vs. evil.
This was an enjoyable, light read with a very likable main character. Aprilynne created a very interesting fantasy world that is only introduced here. There is a lot more to be explored in this world.

I felt the resolution of the plot was a little 'convenient'. However, for this type of story it is only a minor negative in an otherwise good book.

This is not a high tension book, which is why I say it's a light read. There's tension, but the level of tension is engaging not exhausting.

I think this book is appropriate for pre-teens. There is a lot of hugging, resting heads on shoulders and some kissing. But it's all pretty sweet and innocent and reasonable for the two 15 year old characters. Sex it talked about, in very broad terms and only briefly.

There is one scene with some gun shots, but none are fired by the main character and the target isn't human.

I recommend this book and will very likely read the next in the series.
Wings is the first book in Aprilynne Pikes Wings series, a four part series about Laurel, who, as the main protagonist, irritates me. She is a weak willed little girl who hates the idea of public school and has led a very sheltered life. She has feelings for one guy but can't help stringing along another. It isn't her fault, but she bugged me for most of the book, so did her love interest David. The story was good and I liked it enough to overlook David's character flaws and Laurels weakness. I did like some things about her though, I liked her curiosity and drive to figure herself out. I loved Tam, I wanted to hate him, really I did, but I loved him. It was an okay book, I liked it, but it was slow in most parts. Pike was very good at making sure the slow parts (there were a lot of them) not as boring as they would have been if they were done by anyone else.