{"id":269,"date":"2008-11-26T23:09:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T03:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/26\/review-of-wicked-lovely-by-melissa-marr\/"},"modified":"2009-01-20T22:06:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T02:06:42","slug":"review-of-wicked-lovely-by-melissa-marr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Review of Wicked Lovely, by Melissa Marr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image283\" height=\"207\" alt=\"wicked_lovely.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/wicked_lovely.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Wicked Lovely<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Melissa Marr<\/p>\n<p>HarperTeen, 2007.\u00a0 328 pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harperteen.com\/\">http:\/\/www.harperteen.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melissa-marr.com\/\">http:\/\/www.melissa-marr.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aislynn has always been able to see faeries, much to her horror and disgust.\u00a0 Faeries walk among us, and they are not very nice.\u00a0 Grams has warned her, again and again, not to attract their attention, not to let the faeries know she can see them.\u00a0 That&#8217;s one reason Aislynn likes to visit Seth &#8212; he lives in an old train car, made of steel and safe from the disturbing presence of faeries.<\/p>\n<p>Then the Summer King notices Aislynn, and chooses Aislynn.\u00a0 Her fate seems to be sealed.\u00a0 Keenan, the Summer King, is locked in an ages-long battle with his mother, the Winter Queen.\u00a0 Once he chooses Aislynn, she must either become one of the empty-headed Summer Girls or dare to take up the staff and risk the Winter Queen&#8217;s chill.<\/p>\n<p>Aislynn has seen the world of faerie and wants no part of it.\u00a0 There must be some way out.\u00a0 And what about Seth?\u00a0 Keenan has never met a mortal so good at resisting his charms.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wicked Lovely <\/em>has some dark and gritty parts, exploring the dark side of faerie.\u00a0 But the core of the story &#8212; a girl grappling with love and destiny &#8212; is intriguing and powerfully written.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0061214671\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this book on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/wicked_lovely.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/wicked_lovely.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr HarperTeen, 2007.\u00a0 328 pages. http:\/\/www.harperteen.com\/ http:\/\/www.melissa-marr.com\/ Aislynn has always been able to see faeries, much to her horror and disgust.\u00a0 Faeries walk among us, and they are not very nice.\u00a0 Grams has warned her, again and again, not to attract their attention, not to let the faeries know she can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-teen-fiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}