Everything that made the story seem like a mere fairytale in the first book is explained and you start to realise that the world of the story is complex. It would be much more entertaining to read a plot summary.īut once the second book starts, you really start to get a feel for the world. I would honestly recommend skipping the first book altogether as it is a mere introduction into the world and only necessary if one is obsessed with knowing all the details of the story they are reading. Tropes that have been done again and again.

The romance plot wasn’t particularly new: falling in love with someone who is of a different walk of life, love at first sight, unbreakable connection and one is manipulated to hurt another. Her characters are likable but nothing special. Starting off, the quality of the book (Wondrous Strange) is okay, barely managing to remain at the level required for Young Adult literature.

Surrounded by creatures who physically cannot lie, she has never been more deceived. Pretty soon, everything she had known about her life is upturned for the grim reality of the world of fae. Seventeen-year-old Kelly Winslow is just trying to make her way into the world of theatre when she accidentally comes across the world of the fair folk. While each is trying to solve their individual problems, both Kelley and Sonny have to figure out who to trust in time to prevent disaster from falling on both the mortal and the faery worlds.Lesley Livingston’s book series is a revision of Shakespeare’s world of fae with a modern twist.

Sonny, while wandering around NYC, meets up with a group of lost Fae and discovers that some of the nomads are being hunted down and brutally attacked by Janus guards that have gone rogue. She must also figure out who plans to gain his powers by killing him before it is too late.' Kelley is determined to protect Sonny by replacing the charm, the song that hides who he is and the power he contains from everyone including himself. Since faery can’t lie (supposedly), he believes her and takes off on his own to roam the city. In order to protect him from his one weakness – her - she lets Sonny overhear her saying that she doesn’t love him to be sure that he will stay away from her. After the explosive demonstration of Sonny’s power at the end of Darklight and the vision she keeps having of him being killed for it, Kelley makes a hard decision.

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