Pike recaptures the excitement of the first book and fills the story with suspense and a surprise twist at the end. As more trolls are cited and Laurel and her friends are attacked, it appears that Yuki and Klea may be the biggest threats of all. Klea, the black clad gun-toting troll hunter, also asks Laurel to take care of Yuki, a faerie unknown to Avalon. But the even bigger issue is that Laurel and Avalon are still threatened. This creates relationship issues between Laurel and David, a human, as they try to deal with Tam's arrival. Tamani, a faerie, shows up posing as a foreign exchange student named Tam. On the first day of her senior year of high school, Laurel realizes how wrong she was. Barnes is gone, hopefully taking with him the threat to Avalon, and Tamani seems to be honoring her wishes and staying away. There might have been some language though I didn’t make a note of it.Gr 7–10-In Aprilynne Pike's sequel (2011) to Wings (2009, both HarperTeen), Laurel, a faerie adopted by human parents, expects this year to be different. I’m off to read it and I’m so excited!Ĭontent Rating: Medium, for a few make-out scenes. I hope I’m wrong and that Aprilynne surprises me with the ending in the last book. At the end, I was left with this feeling that this whole thing isn’t going to end well. We get to see things from Tamani’s perspective for the first time and it just makes me like him all the more.

Laurel insists it’s not fun to have guys fight over her, but I agree with Laurel’s mom – it seems fun. In addition to that there’s some love triangle drama/angst/fun – whatever you want to call it (I think it’s fun, romantic and just a little bittersweet). There’s a lot of mystery and intrigue going on about a new character and what their motives are that I can tell is building up to a great finale.

In Illusions we got to learn a lot about the history of the fairies with some fun references to Shakespeare and King Arthur. In book 2, we learned about where the fairies live and their culture. In book 1, we learned about fairies and their biology. Spoiler free even if you haven’t read the previous books in this series.Įach book in this series adds a little more to the mythology. And for the first time, Laurel cannot be sure that her side will prevail. Once again, Laurel must turn to Tamani to protect and guide her, for the danger that now threatens Avalon is one that no faerie thought would ever be possible. Just as life is returning to normal, Laurel discovers that a hidden enemy lies in wait.

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