Staff review - Wicked lovely, by Melissa Marr

Melissa Marr has created a complex world of dark beauty. It’s filled with impossibly gorgeous fae who appear to be everything we desire. But, almost as a mirror image of our own flawed world there is a dark side. Seventeen year old Aislinn is drawn into this world by Keenan, The Summer King who must enslave a human girl in order to defeat his mother, the Winter Queen and free himself and his fae.

Aislinn has been able to see the faery forever but has always heeded her late grandmother’s warnings of the danger they hold and refuses to reveal herself. Until she becomes the object of Keenan’s desire. Complicating this are Doria, a summer girl who failed to become Summer Queen, yet is still in love with Keenan, and Seth Aislinn’s alluring would be lover who lives in a set of old train carriages.

Marr’s attention to detail within the world she has created allows her characters to elegantly convey the conflicting emotions that all of us face. Although the world and characters may seem surreal to us, the emotions are all too familiar. I was drawn completely into the characters' lives and world.

Jaynie

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