Author: Melissa Marr
Date Started: 16 January 2011
Date Finished: 19 January 2011
Did you like it? It was mostly okay. If I had to rate it, I would give it a 4/6 as I liked it, I enjoyed the storyline, but it got very boring at parts and I had to push myself to finish it. Though the book is 400 pages or so, I didn't start to really feel the length until half way through when it began kind of dragging. Yes Seth wants to be a faery so he's not so fragile. Yes Aislinn is struggling with Keenans affections. Yes Donia still loves Keenan. It was like, hello? We've covered all of this way back in Wicked Lovely, can we move on?
What's it about? It's about faeries, again. It's from mostly Seth's point of view, but it also has Aislinn, Keenan, and Donia. As well as the introduction of the Unchanging Queen, Sorcha. Seth wants to be a faery so that he and Aislinn can be together for eternity and so he won't be so gosh darn fragile. He pleads with everyone he knows to help him, but they all refuse to help him, calling what he wants a "curse" rather than a gift. So with the help of the faery that embodies everything War, he meets the High and Unchanging Queen Sorcha who does in fact grant him what he wants. But for a price. He has to spend one month in faerie out of every year, and while there, he will be mortal. What she fails to tell him is that time passes different in faerie, One day in faerie is six days in the mortal world. So unbeknownst to him, he spends six months away from Aislinn. The whole time Aislinn is falling apart and no one is really helping her, they're all fey and have been longer than she's been alive, they all know where Seth is, but no one tells her. It was kind of disgusting to me. Keenan, of course, manipulated the situation to his liking and when Aislinn finally starts to move on, Seth shows back up. Gifted with the essence of Sorcha to make him a faery, ensuring that he'll be strong and be able to make a difference. He's also her son or something at that point. He then confronts Aislinn about everything and tells her that she has to make a choice about who she wants to be with, that she can't forgive Keenan for his manipulations this time. The book ends with Seth visiting Naill to ask for training in combat...which was kind of weird to me. Also, the whole impending war is still impending, so I'm curious to see how it goes in the next two books.
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