Saturday, January 3, 2009

Wondrous Strange *Review*

Wondrous Strange
By: Lesley Livingston

Product Description:

Since the dawn of time, the Faerie have taken. . . .

For seventeen-year-old actress Kelley Winslow, faeries are just something from childhood stories. Then she meets Sonny Flannery, whose steel-gray eyes mask an equally steely determination to protect her.

Sonny guards the Samhain Gate, which connects the mortal realm with the Faerie's enchanted, dangerous Otherworld. Usually kept shut by order of icy King Auberon, the Gate stands open but once a year.

This year, as the time approaches when the Samhain Gate will swing wide and nightmarish Fae will fight their way into an unsuspecting human world, something different is happening . . . something wondrous and strange. And Kelley's eyes are opening not just to the Faerie that surround her but to the heritage that awaits her.

Now Kelley must navigate deadly Faerie treachery—and her growing feelings for Sonny—in this dazzling page-turner filled with luminous romance.

Wondrous Strange is a richly layered tale of love between faerie and mortal, betrayal between kings and queens, and magic . . . between author and reader.

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I just finished this book and immediately had to post a review for it! This in my opinion is a really good fairy book. It's told in third person and has powerful main characters and a good plot with many twists.

The main heroine Kelley begins the story acting in the play Midsummer Night's Dream. Since I am a big fan of Shakespeare this was a major plus for me. Shakespeare quotes are given throughout the book beautifully and I loved reading them.

  There are many types of faeries and the author does a good job of explaining them. I also loved the two main characters and their relationship. It seemed more real then most relationships in other stories, which is always a great point :D My only con is the ending and some parts were the story seemed to drag alittle. Overall I'd definitely recommend this author's debut novel.

 Overall Rating: 7.5/10
Good characters, good plot can't wait to read more by this author.

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