*Warning! Contains spoilers from the first two books. Which you should read. Now.*Seth Morgan is in love with the Summer Queen--who is known to most as Aislinn--and she loves him. Which is cool, right? Well, not exactly. There are a few problems. Number One: Ash is always busy with court happenings... and her guards will not stop following him around. Number Two: Though Ash loves Seth, and is in love with him, her feelings for Keenan go beyond friendship. And as summer approaches, the summer monarchs find it more and more difficult to resist the pull between them. Number Three: Ash is a faerie, eternal. Seth is mortal. He is fragile compared to those faeries who would do him harm, and someday, he will die. On top of that, Bananach (of War and Chaos) plans to use him as a pawn in her little war games.
Fun.
So, here's the deal. At first, tragically--but in all honesty--I didn't like Fragile Eternity. As in, I put it down for a couple of weeks after I read the first couple of chapters. Mainly because I kept seeing a bunch of Twilight parallels... which just. Wasn't. Okay. Seriously. The Twilight
It just didn't draw me in like Marr's first two books did. So I put it down for a month or so. Like you do.
But then (and this is a good but), it got way (way, way) better. Approximately halfway through things started happening. Exciting/cool/interesting things that kept me hooked until the highly frustrating and rather ambiguous cliffhanger-type end. Still, though. The way better-ness of the second half was not quite enough to bring the book back up to the top/near-top of the pile status of its predecessors. Alas.
The Verdict: Near the Bottom of the Pile. Really.
Wishing Fragile Eternity had had some rope, a Swiss Army Knife, and some Twilight-Syndrome Repellent1 with which to salvage itself, disappointed, and yours...
So you know how Rae put Fragile Eternity down for a couple of weeks after she read the first couple of chapters?
Well, so did I. But then I never picked it up again. The book was utterly and tragically boring, and I just couldn't bring myself to care.
Disappointed, but mostly just sort of apathetic, and also, as always, yours,
1. Just imagine how incredibly useful that would be. Any time you passed a rabid fangirl with a picture of Robert Pattinson's face tattooed on her arm you could spray her with the stuff, give her information about tattoo removal, recommend a good book, and send her on her merry way. Best plan ever.
2 comments:
That's pretty much the same problem I had with it.
I felt that way about Wicked Lovely. I was in desperate need for an urban faerie fix, and there it was with its seductive cover.
I think the plot line was ridiculous at the very end. I thought the Summer Kind was too much of a caricature and that sometimes Ash was just SO naive I wanted to top reading.
At the end I was left with a huge question mark because I don't like Seth. He's unrealistic. But then again, it's fiction, right?
Anywho, I haven't read the two after WL.
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