I really liked him in Wings and then that started to change by the time I read Illusions. At the start of the series, that character was Tamani. While I occasionally find myself in a situation where I don’t enjoy the main character (which makes it hard to continue reading any book), I often have another character that I like in the book and continue reading for them. It also doesn’t help that she has a love triangle she can’t seem to figure out–love triangles are the WORST! She just becomes whiny and angsty and I just found her lack of maturity at times and her “do-gooder” attitude to be irritating. When she really started to piss me off was near the end of Spells and then in Illusions.

Laurel was fine for Wings with her perfect life and attitude. That is perhaps the biggest problem with this series: I hated the characters. The problems the characters face in these books, especially in their personal lives, seemed petty and juvenile so that turned me off of the story at times and more importantly, off of the characters. I don’t think it helps that one of my all time faerie series is Wicked Lovely, which is just that touch more mature for a young adult book or that I started reading the Iron Fey series around the same time, which also has a more mature feel to it. When I say “very high school” I mean that this book is definitely geared towards younger teens and not those entering university (which is when I started to read this series).

There are a few reasons why I didn’t enjoy these books as much as I hoped: 1) it was very high school 2) the characters and 3) love triangle. I also blame the covers for getting prettier and prettier as the series continued 😉

I’m not sure why I finished it, I think I just had to have some closure with the story and that made me read the rest. Despite the high ratings and reviews, I just couldn’t get into this series. This was one of those series that just didn’t do it for me. Genre: Young Adult/Teen, Faeries, Romance, Magic # of Books: 4 (Wings, Spells, Illusions, Destined)

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