Wondrous Strange (Wondrous Strange (Quality))
by Lesley Livingston
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Author: Lesley LivingstonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-09-22
ISBN: 0061575399
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: HarperTeen
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Book Review: Great fairy book
Summary: 5 Stars
Kelly Winslow wants to be a actress and so she struggles living in New York to pursue her dreams away from her Aunt Emma. She started out as the understudy for another actress who was playing Titiana in 'A Midsummer's Night Dream' at the Avalon Grande Theatre. When something happens to the main actress Kelly gets her chance to play Titiana, but what she didn't know is how close her real life was going to come to mirroring her acting life.
Kelly has always loved Central Park it is one of her favorite places to be, she goes there to rehearse her lines. It is here that Sonny Flannery comes into her life. Sonny is a Janus, a protector of the Gate between the Otherworld and the Mortal world. He is a changling, which means that he was stolen as a child and raised among the fairy folk. King Auberon raised Sonny and made him a Janus.
The gates between the two worlds use to be open, but when a mortal came and stole the Fairy King's daughter. Auberon shut the gates but something happened when he shut them and they left cracks. That is when he formed the Janus, thirteen changlings to guard the gates. During the Nine Nights the cracks become even wider and this is the Janus hardest time.
Sonny soon finds out who Kelly really is and makes it his own business to see her safely protected. Kelly is a fairy princess but she has no clue, when she finds out it seems more like a dream than real. Though she has seen the dangers and trust Sonny to protect her. Will Kelly give up her rightful air to protect those she loves or will she take on the challenge of the Unseelie Court of Fairies?
First off I want to say that I read that this was Lesley Livingston's debut novel and so I would like to say that for a debut novel she has done very well. She defiantly has talent and I can't wait to read Darklight which I just started looking at this morning.
I haven't read a lot of books on fairies I was always the vampire and werewolf girl, but with books like these the fairy world is starting to grow on me. I think I like it because as I have looked up fairies on the internet there are so many different kinds of fairies it gives the books a wide variety of settings an tales.
The one thing I love about this book is how Lesley has taken the play 'A Midsummer's Night Dream' and mirrored it when the fairy world. It is written as if Shakespeare himself has witnessed the fairy world and wrote a play about it. It really made the story much more interesting, especially since I am a huge Shakespeare fan and I love this play.
I love Kelly and Sonny they are great characters and I can't wait to see what happens to them in Darklight. I really did like all the side characters, well with the exception of one character but you are suppose to not like that one..LOL (not saying because it would give to much away). Even Tiff, Kelly's roomate was likeable especially after you find out who she really is..
Over all I really loved this book and I would recommend it to any one who loves reading books about fairies.
Summary of Wondrous Strange (Wondrous Strange (Quality))
Since the dawn of time, the Faerie have taken. . . .
Seventeen-year-old actress Kelley Winslow always thought faeries were just something from childhood stories. Then she meets Sonny Flannery. He's a changeling?a mortal taken as an infant and raised among Faerie?and within short order he's turned Kelley's heart inside out and her life upside down.
For Kelley's beloved Central Park isn't just a park?it's a gateway between her ordinary city and the Faerie's dangerous, bewitching Otherworld. Now Kelley's eyes are opening not just to the Faerie that surround her, but to the heritage that awaits her . . . a destiny both wondrous and strange.
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