Wings Review

Wings By Aprilynne Pike
(Book 1 in Wings series)

15 year old Laurel and her mon and dad, has just move to LA. They have left behind there home which has been in her mothers family for centuries. Laurel is a very different girl from anyone else, for examble: she is a strickt vegan, doesn´t need to put shampoo in her hair, doesn´t get cold and many other things. But she is also homeschooled by her mom, but now she has to start in high school. Laurel quickly gets a friend, David and befriend some of his friends. But a couple of weeks after she has started in school something begins to grow on her back. And starts to worry. When a week after something that looks like a flower has grown out of her back, she tells David and together they find out that it is somekind of plant. A week after her family has to go back to there old house and Laurel walks out in there forest behind there house. Here she meets Tamini, who tells her she is a fairie, just like him and many others and that he lives in this forest. Laurel freaks out, but slowly learns to accept it with Davis scientific help. But there is one problem: Laurel´s family is trying to sell the old house, but that can´t happened, because then the land could fall into the wrong hands.

The book starts really slow and there are a lot of pages that just go on about school and things that doesn´t matter that much, that is really boring. The book was fast to read, so i didn´t get as bored as I might had been. But you had to get half way through the book, before it began to be intresting.
I am a person who really don´t like fairie stories: I don´t know why, but i really don´t. But this book was much better that The Wicked Lovely series.
Laurel is a character who is obviously beautifull, but she is not a girl who cares about it, she has never even thought about it. She doesn´t care what other thinks of her. I like her, she has her own mind set on things. And she is not some bitch with perfect blond blond hair. She is weird in a good way.

It´s a book with little action, but a good read. I will be reading the next bock spells and i am looking forward to see more about Lauren and Tamini´s relationship, because there is definently something there.

Grade: 7