Purpurea -a type of Coneflower ( Image Source) … She knew them now, after almost a week of studying, and named them, instinctively, in her head. Laurel walked down a few flights of stairs and took a slightly longer route so she could walk through a rounded, glass hallway lined with flowers in every color of the rainbow. “The edges were ruffled and looked eerily like the African violets her mother painstakingly grew in their kitchen.” – Aprilynne Pike, Wings with Bonus Material (p. (Read my reviews for: Wings, Spells, Illusions, and Destined.) Here’s some stuff I searched or wondered about while reading The Wings Series by Aprilynne Pike. There were even a few small green leaves where the enormous flower connected to her skin.When I read, I ask a LOT of questions. Smaller petals - about eight or nine inches long - spiraled around the center, filling in the leftover space. The longest petals - fanning out over each shoulder and peeking around her waist - were more than a foot long and as wide as her hand. Petal-like strips sprouted from where the bump had been, making a gently curved four-pointed star on her back. She turned slowly so she could see them better. They were terrifyingly beautiful - almost too beautiful for words. For a moment Laurel was mesmerized, staring at the pale things with wide eyes. Long, bluish-white forms rose over both shoulders. She didn't even have to turn to see the new development. With the romance not so much in the reader's face, this should appeal to a wider audience than Twilight, though perhaps not as passionately.

There's a story here, with an intriguing variation on traditional fairy lore - fairies, for instance, are actually plants, and what humans thought were wings are actually their blossoms.

It's a bit milder than Twilight: the romance is a bit less passionate, as befits the slightly younger age of the heroine and target audience.īut unlike that earlier blockbuster, this series launch has something to offer those who aren't into mooning over hunky vampires, or even hunky fairies. Instead of vampires and werewolves we get fairies and trolls, and the heroine this time is one of the supernatural creatures and one of the two boys she likes is human. This is clearly aimed at the Twilight crowd: a bit of chaste romance, a bit of violence, and a supernatural gloss on the real world.

Wings by Aprilynne Pike