Loved each and every part of this book. I will definitely recommend this book to fantasy, young adult lovers. Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Home Downloads Free Downloads Illusions pdf. Read Online Download. Responsibility free sex; no risk of pregnancy or STDs other than maybe a little prick. Way to appeal to your base Pike.
Seriously, this is more appealing to teen fantasies than free cupcakes! Along with his habit of fabulously coming over Laurel, it turns out that Laurel volunteered to be a faerie plant in the human world because faeries age mentally much quicker than their bodies suggest, sort of like the uterus chewing demon child in reverse and Tamani has been watching her for her entire life!
Laurel is also older than she thinks, and is 19 instead of Instant age of consent! Initiate slow clap sequence. We get a bit of action with the henchmen attempting to kill Laurel and David in a good old fashioned drowning.
Trolls lack this symmetry, ergo they are ugly. Not just ugly; hideous. The trolls lack any other defining characteristic beyond being ugly and stupid because apparently these things go hand in hand, and apparently their hideousness bothers the trolls themselves.
Really Pike? So if one is ugly, mentally or physically impaired we should just give up on them because evolution has clearly tried to weed them out?
To give the book credit, it took pages before it really pissed me off which is more than Twilight. Laurel even gets to kiss both guys. It turns out that Tamani was her former faerie BFF when they were precocious kiddies in Avalon and is hopelessly in love with her.
According to her blog, Pike wrote the book in 6 weeks and it shows. It was an easy enough read although there are a few moments where Pike tries to Meyer out on the dialogue.
The characters are dull and everything is handled in a serviceable but lifeless manner. The attempt to shove a plot in with the introduction of the ugly evil trolls just pissed me off; not only was it shallow and ableist, it was just plain lazy writing. View all 9 comments. A very intriguing take on faeries. However, I feel that not a lot happened in the first third of the novel; it was mostly Laurel finding out who and what she is.
Though beautifully written, it seemed more of an intro to the next book than a novel in itself. Still, it kept me turning pages, the characters were well developed, and the love triangle inspired many aww moments.
I'm anxious to see what will happen in the next book A very intriguing take on faeries. I'm anxious to see what will happen in the next book View 2 comments. Nov 12, Kristi rated it liked it Shelves: signed-books , books-i-own. Wings was definitely a unique take on fairy mythology.
And I finally get the significance of the cover now, which I have to say fits the novel perfectly. The first part of the novel moved a little slow for me.
The writing was outstanding, it flowed really well. The characters were also really well depicted. And then of course one of my personal favorite elements in any story I could be wrong. Overall, a exciting and beautifully written novel! I mean, eeeew. Yeah, and then there are some things that just plain annoy me. Dialogues like this one for example It took her a few seconds to find her voice.
Unintentionally so, but still funny. Furthermore the whole plant thing makes it incredibly hard, if not impossible for me to take any of this seriously.
I don't know, maybe I would have gotten used to the plant thing if I had kept on reading but as I said, I don't feel like it so for now Wings is going to find its way back into the depths of my shelves where it has been hiding out for the past year.
Thanks for the push anyway Kirsten! View all 27 comments. View all 7 comments. I remember reading this book a few years ago and really loving it. I also read the sequel back then but I never really finished the series. Now I'm gonna finish it. This was such a quick and enjoyable read. Although it has many tropes that we all hate, such as love triangles, I still found myself enticed by the story.
I am so excited to get the rest of the series in the mail so I can continue!! May 10, J. What Meyer has done to vampires, Pike has done to faeries. This book is sweet, funny, sensually and beautifully told. She gives every single character their justice and purpose. Amazingly composed. This has got to be a part of a series. I need more. Most of my friends rated this book one star, and some friends even have it on shelves to avoid Although Laurel is a TERRIBLE heroine, and I went into this book with quite low expectations see my ' morbid curiosity shelf, reserved for books I have heard terrible things about but still have a desire to read and the only reason I picked it up was because I saw it on the shelf in my local library I actually enjoyed the book.
Aprilynne Most of my friends rated this book one star, and some friends even have it on shelves to avoid One of the things that drew me to Wings was the idea of the girl being the monster, not the boy. I was already reading Hereafter, although that was starting to grate on me, so I picked up Wings… …and promptly read about half of it in one sitting. It was very addictive. Nope, instead Laurel runs off and tells her new BFF hot-nerd boy which I have to give kudos for, because nerds are hot instead.
Up until this point, I was really enjoying the book. The wings seemed more like an opportunity to send her to the school dance and have everyone be amazed at how beautiful she was rather than the other important plot point which revealed she was actually a faerie.
Yeah, that part was weird and I skipped over it so sorry if I got it wrong. My inner feminist fumes. I know, I know — I need to switch genres if I want to read about girls who can actually look after themselves — but still.
Happy reading! View all 10 comments. Feb 24, Jennifer Wardrip rated it it was amazing Shelves: trt-posted-reviews , trt-gold-star-award-winner. Laurel finds herself in public school for the first time when she is a sophomore. She has been homeschooled in a small cabin in the forest.
Her parents moved to Crescent City, in Northern California, about an hour away from her cabin to open a bookstore. At her high school Laurel meets David, and he invites her to join his group of friends.
He also becomes her best friend. As she is getting settled into her new life, she gets a bump on her back - which grows bigger and bigger until she sprouts a pretty blue blossom.
This blossom makes her look like she has wings. She manages to hide it from her family and the people at school, but she and David begin to investigate. He looks at cells of her blossom and her cheeks and comes to the conclusion that she is made of plant cells. Laurel goes back to her cabin home in search of answers. There she meets Tamani, a gorgeous young man who tells her that she is a fairy.
She has been helping the fairies guard a secret that is by her cabin home. Later, her dad takes ill and Laurel and David risk their lives fighting trolls, who are trying to acquire Laurel's forest home. These trolls are scary! They are big, strong, and the main one is smart. Should she go back to her fairy life with Tamani, or stay and guard her adoptive parents and be with David, who Laurel also has feelings for?
I really loved this book. It had everything: love, chases, close escapes, dramatic choices, and lots of magic. The writing was very good, and at some points I had to put down the book just because I was so nervous for the characters, which for me means that I was totally involved in the story.
Laurel is someone who I would want to be my best friend. David is also fantastic. He is what I would love to meet and have in my life. He is accepting, brave, and extremely helpful. Tamani is strong, intense, and sexy! What a choice! I highly recommend this series. It is fun and very believable. View 1 comment.
Jan 03, Debbie rated it really liked it Shelves: fantasy-ya. Though I haven't read "Twilight" due to my abhorrence of anything vampire, this may be the fairy equivalent. Main character discovers she's a plant fairy, does battle with trolls, and must decide between two love interests, one a human and the other a fairy. Compelling story! Nov 13, Sara Larson added it. By the end I was definitely sucked in.
It is a very different take on fairies, very interesting. I'm definitely curious to see how this series turns out View all 3 comments. Dec 21, Mariah rated it it was ok Shelves: own-hardcover , miami-library , read-in , tbrreleases. Read this back in age 16 and I remember liking it a lot, and recommending it to my best friend we had a Book Club of 2 xD - still do actually. I remember dissecting Laurel's interactions with David and Tamani and trying to figure out who she would choose. It was an ok book in , but if I hadn't these nostalgic memories not of the story itself, but of passing books back and forth with my best friend and our friendship , I don't think I would've tolerated it as well as I did now, 11 yea Read this back in age 16 and I remember liking it a lot, and recommending it to my best friend we had a Book Club of 2 xD - still do actually.
It was an ok book in , but if I hadn't these nostalgic memories not of the story itself, but of passing books back and forth with my best friend and our friendship , I don't think I would've tolerated it as well as I did now, 11 years later.
David and Tamani are nothing to write home about. I'm glad the love triangles stayed mostly in the s. There's no real character development or real plot to speak of really, but this is not the worst book I've read this year.
That honor belongs to Marked , and honestly, I don't think I'll be rating another book 1 star any time soon - not if in doing so I'm saying it's as bad as Marked. So 2 stars for the nostalgia factor.
It's also not riddled with problematic stuff that was rampant for it's time. There were a few jarring comments that would not fly in a pub, but that was to be expected. I started the sequel right away, because I own the whole series.
Let's see what happens. Just a quick trigger warning: Laurel's parent's are anti vaxxers - it's somewhat unclear if it's due to the overaching 'plot' I'm using that word quite liberally here but it still sets my blood boiling either way, 'cause you know. Science and kids not needlessly getting sick or dying are things I care about. Jan 26, Mizuki rated it did not like it Shelves: recommended-by-stephenie-meyer. Note: had just found out Aprilynne Pike's remark on book reviews.
Wow, what an it. Review: Wings by Aprilynne Pike The story begins when a homeschooled young girl, Laurel moves to a new town with her parents and starts going to highschool for the very first time, later she discovers something isn't quite right with herself and she must get to the bottom of the mystery of her own origin with the help of David, her new friend.
I must confess, Wings by Aprilynne Pike is one of those annoying, formulized YA novels which I can't bring myself to finish. But I really should have known better when I saw the recommendation from Stephenie Meyer on the backcover. A lot of YA novels have 'new student in a new school setting' and love triangle, still the characters in Wings are so poorly constructed that I feel absolutely nothing for them.
The heroine Laurel is too perfect to be neither likable nor realistic--when I said 'perfect' it's in an extremely narrow and mainstream sense. What the author had projected in her 'heroine' is just a very shallow kind of 'perfection' based mostly on appearance.
Look, see. Laurel is outstandingly beautiful, she's smart, she self-learnt how to play a guitar without being taught, she moves with dancer's grace even having taken no lesson a description which I, as a person who had danced regularly for years, found hilarious , she doesn't even have a single acne upon her skin, she captures a nice, handsome boy's interest the very first day she goes to high school, she doesn't need to worry about gaining weight because she doesn't even have to eat anything but a few mouthful of vegetable!
Oh come on! Give me a freaking break! Furthermore, for 15 long years Laurel never once realize she doesn't have pulse, heartbeats and the color of her blood is different from normal human being.
Oh my goodness, dear Miss Pike are you kidding me!? The author tells us Laurel used to be homeschooled by her mother but I found her to be unreasonably sheltered and ignorant. Okay, I have never met anyone who was homeschooled but I guess being homeschooled surely doesn't mean you are isolated from other kids and have zero interaction with them, right?
But from Miss Pike's description, it looks like Laurel had not a single friend back in her hometown, her entire childhood was spent being a shut-in and David is the very first friend she had ever made. I also found all these details hard to believe in.
Plus Laurel also dislikes her new school because the halls have no widows, people are talking loudly and students are making out at lockers. Oh, what a delicate princess. Oh, what a whiny. He's nice and caring, but there's nothing more about him. It also looks unrealistic that when Laurel tells him she has massive flower petals growing down her back like a pair of wings and she might be a faerie, he just accepts all these without any second thought? It is never explained why he can accept all these supernatural things so calmly, if it were mentioned that, for example, David is a fan of Sci-Fi or fairy folklore, then it might be the explanation for his accepting attitude, but no, we are given no explanation.
As to the other love interest, Tamani; I have little to say because by the time he shows up, I had already lost interest. And Laurel is smitten with him during the very first time they met because he is SO beautiful, sexy and mysterious. Oh……I think I'd seen the same YA's sentimental love at first sight mumbo jumbo for far too many times.
The idea of faeries being a form of plants is supposed to be an original idea, but the way this idea is played out makes it look like a big joke. Faeries, a bunch of walking and talking humanlike plants, and they eat fruits and vegetable—namely other plants, for survival? This made me laugh so hard when I read it. The rest of the plot is pretty predictable, so I couldn't stand the boredom anymore in the middle of the book and had to give in and jumped to the ending to know what happens in the end.
I hear that there are three more books for the Wings series, but I don't think I will go near them anytime soon. But I really dislike how the concept of fairies being treated like this. I mean, you can't present 'fairies' like this anymore than you can insist vampires don't drink human blood and would sparkle under the sun, not anymore than you can show me a piece of crap and insist that it's not crap but tasty chocolate. David did it by holding his own breath than blowed it into Laurel's mouth, so when Laurel exhaled it back to his mouth, he could test whether she would exhale oxygen instead of carbon dioxide.
Okay, I like the idea of David doing experiment to test what Laurel really is, but the way this 'experiment' is done, is a big insult to what we'd usually call scientific experiments. The villains in the story is later being revealed as the evil trolls, why they want to attack Avalon homeland of fairies so badly?
Because they wanted the treasures in it. Yes, it really is all about the treasures, and that makes the trolls a bunch of purposeless villains. We are told that the evil trolls wanted to seize the land owned by Laurel's parents, because the Gate to Avalon happened to locate on said land. And what did the trolls do to seize the land?
Oh well, they did it by offering Laurel's mom a lot of money to buy the land and poisoned Laurel's dad. And what the fairies had done to stop this evil plan? No, the fairy's guards were so clueless about the whole land deal that they only realized something was wrong after Laurel and her parents moved out. I just need to facepalm. Those guards were supposedly protecting one of the most important gateways to their sanctuary, and they did such a terrible job! How can I take those fairies serious!?
By the way, if the trolls can try to buy the precious land from Laurel's mom, why can't the fairies make a similar offer earlier on? Are they stupid or something? It's also revealed that Laurel was sent to her adoptive parents as a changeling because the fairies wanted the couple to take her in so Laurel can be her parents' heir and then in turn inheriting their land when they die; to make sure the land would be in the fairies' hands in a long run.
I must admit it is an reasonable plan, but the whole thing sounds too manipulative and self-serving, it also contradict the theory that the fairies are the 'good' guys. Also, I found the characters in the story to be very stereotyped: every 'good' characters are slim, young and good-looking, on the other hand the villains are ugly, deformed and strange-looking.
You know what? That kind of setting and morality looks like it's taken straight from Disney cartoons. Take Disney's The Little Mermaid as an example, Little Mermaid is fair-skinned, young, pretty, feminine and slim, the evil Sea Witch is old, fat, unpretty, dark-skinned and white haired; and do I have to remind you that The Little Mermaid is a cartoon from decades ago? How very educational she is being. Eventually Laurel's parents found out their daughter was a fairy, and they just okayed it?
That's how people would react after they heard that their adopted daughter is from another species and the purpose of her being sent to live with them is to make sure she can inherit their land later on!? Wouldn't all these set off all sort of alarm bells in their minds? By the way, the fairies saved Laurel's dad, then offered her parents a large piece of raw diamond in exchange of them making Laurel the rightful heir of the land.
Things finally speeds up when Laurel and David got caught by the trolls, I like how Laurel managed to save herself and David from under the river. To sum up, Aprilynne Pike as a new author has some original ideas, but sadly her story isn't well excised: the characters are two dimensional at best, the villains are flat characters, the 'heroine' is an obvious Mary Sue, there's a lot of 'tell, not show' in the story, some of the characters' actions and decisions fail to make sense.
But if you can overlook those flaws, you might enjoy this story, I don't know. Dec 14, Laurel marked it as to-read Shelves: heroine-shares-my-name , uh-oh.
I heard this book really, really stinks The main character has my name Aug 31, Amy Plum added it. I love the very original for me faerie mythology that Pike has created in this book.
And have to say I'm Team Tamani. PDF Wings es el primero de cuatro libros acerca de una chica aparentemente ordinaria llamada Laurel que descubre que es una hada. Illusions Unabridged View in iTunes.
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