I can use some adjectives that describe him, but I still don’t have a full grasp of his personality. David, however, was a little inconsistent sometimes, and while I liked him, he was sometimes elusive I still don’t feel like I got a real feel for who he was. The characters seemed so real, particularly Laurel’s friend Chelsea I probably would have been quite annoyed with her if I’d had to hang out with her in real life (though I suspect I’m similarly tactless sometimes it’s something I’m working on), I loved Aprilynne Pike’s ability to write a character who was so believable. Aprilynne Pike is a wonderful writer, world builder, and storyteller it grabbed me immediately, and I was completely absorbed in this story and unable to do much of anything else until I finished it.

The gate to Avalon that they have protected for ages is now threatened, and Laurel must help save the faeries’ secret, protect her family, sort out her confused feelings for a classmate, David, and a faerie, Tamani, and figure out her own identity and place in both worlds. She was sent to her parents to guard the land that they lived on, land that holds something very important to the faeries, but when they got an offer to buy the land and her family moved to a new town, things suddenly became dangerous for the faeries. It turns out she’s not even human she’s a faerie. When Laurel was three, she was left on her parents’ doorstep in a basket, with no knowledge of where she came from–but no one could have predicted this. This becomes apparent when Laurel sprouts a giant wing-like flower on her back. All seems to be going okay, but that’s not exactly the truth when Laurel’s family moved, her life was unknowingly taking a turn for the not-so-normal.

While she misses being outdoors all the time, she’s getting along pretty well at her new school, and she’s made a couple of friends. When Laurel, who has never been quite a typical teenage girl, moves to a new town and starts public school (she’d previously been homeschooled by her hippie parents), one would think that meant her life was becoming pretty ordinary.

Wings book series by aprilynne pike