February 14, 2012 Fragile Eternity
- ISBN13: 9780061214714
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Product Description
Seth never expected he would want to settle down with anyone—but that was before Aislinn. She is everything he’d ever dreamed of, and he wants to be with her forever. Forever takes on new meaning, though, when your girlfriend is an immortal faery queen. Aislinn never expected to rule the very creatures who’d always terrified her—but that was before Keenan. He stole her mortality to make her a monarch, and now she faces challenges and enticements beyond any she’d ever imagined. In Melissa Marr’s third mesmerizing tale of Faerie, Seth and Aislinn struggle to stay true to themselves and each other in a milieu of shadowy rules and shifting allegiances, where old friends become new enemies and one wrong move c… More >>
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Jennifer Lawrence
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In this sequel to Wicked Lovely, we find Aislinn, the new Summer queen, quickly adjusting to her new role. Her relationship with her mortal boyfriend, Seth, is threatened by her inexplicable attraction to Keenan, the Summer king.
Keenan is having his own relationship troubles. He’s madly in love with Donia, the Winter queen. She refuses to share him with Aislin, and the powers they wield are a physical barrier. All attempts at closeness are quickly thwarted by physical injury.
Seth witnesses the closeness between Aislinn and Keenan. He realizes that, as a mortal, his time with Aislinn is limited, compared to the . If he became a faery, he and Aislinn would be together for all time. He disappears, leaving Aislinn questioning their relationship. In his absence, she becomes closer to Keenan. Will Seth return in time to quelch the budding relationship between Aislinn and Keenan?
The world that Marr creates is absolutely addictive. The vivid language draws you in and the detail put in to each of the character holds your attention for the entire book. Marr did a great job of adding more depth to each of the characters introduced in Wicked Lovely. We learn a great deal more about Seth and the characters that make up the Dark and High courts. This series is highly addictive and promises Marr never-ending success in in the young adult publishing arena.
Rating: 4 / 5
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M. Clark
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I’m hoping there is going to be another book because she really left things up in the air and I can’t wait to see how things pan out.
Rating: 4 / 5
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Heather
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Fragile Eternity is the best installment of Marr’s chronicles of faerie to date. Marr is a brilliant writer, I’m actually glad the story isn’t complete as I have no idea how I want it all to end. Every turn of the page feels as though I am taking a loop on a roller coaster. Every character is endearing and beautifully flawed, I love them all. If only each of them could have their hearts desire. I’m so excited to see how it all unfolds. Excellent book!
Rating: 5 / 5
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Avid Reader
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Well, this chapter of the Wicked Lovely series certainly wasn’t what I expected. The story picks up with Aislinn and Seth, Keenan and Donia, and takes us through relationships that twist and turn.
In Wicked Lovely, I did like Seth and his relationship with Ash, but I did pine for Ash to take Keenan as a partner. The end of Wicked Lovely finds Ash agreeing to be the Summer Queen if she can keep Seth in her life and still keep ties to her mortal life.
In Fragile Eternity (a very appropriate title), Ash tries to balance her love for Seth with her friendship with Keenan and her relationship with her court, but she has a very hard time of it. Her initial choices and conditions to being Summer Queen have only served to confuse her and make her and everyone else around her unhappy. And the essence of Summer and the Summer Court is happiness and frivolity, feeling carefree and exhuberant. Well, Ash is anything but these things and her court suffers for it.
Though I enjoyed the continuation of Ash and Keenan’s story, I became more and more frustrated the further I read. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I preferred Keenan to Seth, but Ash’s choices, or lack thereof, began to feel selfish. And Seth’s answer to be with Ash just didn’t feel in character for him. Or maybe it was his reaction to his choice that felt off for me.
I did thoroughly enjoy getting to know the other courts better and I really like where the storyline is taking us. I look forward to the next installment with great anticipation. There have been so many twists and turns in this chapter of Faery that what the future holds now is anyone’s guess.
Rating: 4 / 5
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z hayes
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“Fragile Eternity” is the true sequel to Wicked Lovely in that it picks up the storyline of Aislinn, Keenan, Seth, and Donia and the complications that arise as a result of these characters’ entanglements with each other. Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely (Quality)) can actually be considered a stand-alone title except that it does cover some crucial story lines that are only alluded to in Fragile Eternity (so reading Ink Exchange prior to Fragile Eternity is recommended).
I felt this third installment in the Wicked Lovely series was interesting and engaging though it does tend to get mired in tedious prose and drags in certain parts. In this story, Aislinn the Summer Queen is coming to terms with her responsibilities to her fae court and is trying to maintain an awkward balance between the demands of her job and her relationship with the mortal Seth who is her lover. Things are quite tenuous especially given Donia’s (the Winter Queen’s) feelings for Keenan, the Summer King and also the animosity between Niall, King of the Dark Court and Keenan. When Seth decides to take matters into his own hands and is taken to meet Sorcha, Queen of the High Court, events spiral out of control and have major repercussions on all of Faerie.
I felt that the Aislinn-Keenan storyline meandered and got really tedious and boring in this installment. Keenan appears to be too sweet towards Aislinn and duplicitous at the same time – it’s hard to like this characters (for me at least). Though I felt Seth’s characterization was too one-dimensional in the first book, he seems to have evolved into a complex character here whose actions are not predictable and his decisions undertaken here have significant ramifications for Aislinn, Keenan, Niall, Donia, and himself.
The other character that interested me was Bananach, the Dark fairy of war and bloodshed who agitates for violence. The sneak peeks into the madness of this character is riveting yet ultimately not fulfilling because her character is never truly explored in depth. Sorcha, Bananach’s sister and High Queen of Faerie is the total opposite and I loved how her character is shown to be multi-faceted.
In all, Fragile Eternity is still interesting and I will continue to follow the series, but I felt the story could have been more tautly woven and focused on central characters.
Rating: 3 / 5