pandacat42's review against another edition
3.0
Annoyed with Laurel. Also annoyed with the book ending right at the climax. What is that even about?
michaela95c's review against another edition
5.0
Wow, what an awesome book!!! So much stuff happened and I can't wait to read the next book and see what happens with Yuki. I've got my fingers crossed that Tam and Laurel end up together, I've just got this gut feeling with them. :) Also, I think Chelsea and David should start dating too.
nannasa16's review against another edition
4.0
un tre e mezzo arrotondato va'.
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jujelly's review against another edition
1.0
The only reason I'm even continuing this series is because of the end, and because I'm somewhat curious about what's going to happen, but I'm not going to lie -- this book has tested my limits as to how much teenage bullshit drama I can endure.
There's several stuff that took away the joy of reading this:
1. Laurel. I really don't like that the protagonist is the very reason I dislike the book a lot, but Pike had no business making Laurel absolutely detestable. She is selfish, she is so obnoxious, so self-centered despite for some reason everyone kind of making it out as if she was being selfless (???), and she cannot. for the life of her. keep. her. mouth. shut. The amount of times I have read about her discussing David and Tamani over and over again gave me a brain aneursym.
You might ask me -- hey, Juju, it wasn't that bad, was it? YES. YES, IT WAS. The entire book was seemingly just this stupid love triangle between these characters. It was David this, Tamani that.
I hated, HATED that Laurel was with David, then she couldn't make up her mind about Tamani so she went to him and ALLOWED him to do all the stuff, because she got this fuzzy feeling and doesn't want to rid it, basically cheating on David. Then she gets angry AT HIM EVEN THOUGH HE MAKES HIS STUPID ASS INTENTION SO CLEAR YOU'D HAVE TO BE A LITERAL INFANT NOT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE FUCK HE'S DOING AND WHAT HE WANTS. And then HE does what the heck he's supposed to do - which is do all the Yuki stuff (I'll talk about her in the later paragraphs) and Laurel goes all "oh youre hooking up with her now?? you didnt even LOOK at me during the dance while i was with david. how dare you close your eyes and enjoy another girl."
BITCH- okay. I need to breathe. In and out. I cannot believe what I'm reading. I cannot believe what I'm enduring. This shit is the most whiney, attention-seeking little bullshit anyone can do. She makes him jealous, gets angry at her own boyfriend for being jealous for very real and valid reasons, then gets jealous at Tamani for doing his fucking job, and expects both of them to still pant after her because she does not want to lose the longing in their eyes. Because she enjoys being loved by both. Fuck you, Laurel. Fuck you.
I am sick of reading any more of this immature and very, very annoying back and forth. I don't know why the author decided to make that the entire plotline of the book, but I seemingly got nothing out of what initially lead me to read Illusions in the first place.
Everything I learned regarding world-building and Avalon and all the faerie customs was just gone and replaced by this bull right there. You know, it's funny, because when Tamani suddenly appeared at school, I was kind of excited. I actually thought this was gonna go somewhere really cool, and granted, obviously there was gonna be a clash between David and Tamani, but instead -- instead I read through these pages and realised more and more how ridiculously enarmoured they are with Laurel, who is literally not special in any way. I genuinely do not understand why the fuck they like her; why Tamani lets himself be tortured like this.
But let me zoom out really quick and talk about the characters generally really quick:
You know, I kinda liked Tamani. I thought there was going to be more of him on a deeper level, in the sense that I wanted to see some faults, to see some spirit in him. But instead, the author wrote him as this love-sick, passion-ridden guy who wouldn't stop at anything to make Laurel his. Laurel is his entire world. He does not have any other priorities in his life, and it kind of really pisses me off, because I don't feel like they have a history to base it on. They don't have any kind of proper relationship in that way. It just felt really artificial.
Then there's David, and he feels so bland. There is nothing to this guy, no essence. I have no idea what kind of person he is, because the author wrote him out to be one of those guys whose entire personality is fitted to the protagonist. Him and Tamani, they both are there to love Laurel, not becuase they exist as their own person.
Mentioning that -- Chelsea. Literally useless person in this book, in this entire series. What is her point. There is literally no use, no worth to her regarding to the story, because she doesn't bring anything. She's a little bit of drama, and that's it. There is literally nothing I'm getting from her. I don't know who the fuck she is and to be honest, I couldn't care less if she died in a car accident or got eaten by trolls in the next chapter.
Oh yeah, speaking of trolls. ??????????? Remember when they were supposed to be a danger, or to have some sort of conflict going on with the faeries? Yeah, where did that go? We got literally nothing. It was useless "suspense" throughout the chapters (except really, it was only useless love triangles because in the end, the suspense wasn't even fleshed out. Nothing happened). I thought hey, it's gonna be just as magical as the last book, to read more about this world and learn more about the different seasons. But instead, I got this trash.
Now on to Yuki -- she was honestly the most interesting part of the entire story and she didn't even appear that much. We knew nothing of her (because if Laurel had gotten her head out of her ass with all the boys drama, we might have) and yet she was still the best part, and that was because I knew there was a secret with her. She might be the one who ends up having a more complex characterisation, but having read the past three books, I don't believe that this is what is going to happen. Nonetheless, she stays the "highlight".
Then the ending happened, and let me just say that it was a very cheap but lowkey effective way of keeping us interested. Because had that not happened, I would DNF this series right at this point.
There's several stuff that took away the joy of reading this:
1. Laurel. I really don't like that the protagonist is the very reason I dislike the book a lot, but Pike had no business making Laurel absolutely detestable. She is selfish, she is so obnoxious, so self-centered despite for some reason everyone kind of making it out as if she was being selfless (???), and she cannot. for the life of her. keep. her. mouth. shut. The amount of times I have read about her discussing David and Tamani over and over again gave me a brain aneursym.
You might ask me -- hey, Juju, it wasn't that bad, was it? YES. YES, IT WAS. The entire book was seemingly just this stupid love triangle between these characters. It was David this, Tamani that.
I hated, HATED that Laurel was with David, then she couldn't make up her mind about Tamani so she went to him and ALLOWED him to do all the stuff, because she got this fuzzy feeling and doesn't want to rid it, basically cheating on David. Then she gets angry AT HIM EVEN THOUGH HE MAKES HIS STUPID ASS INTENTION SO CLEAR YOU'D HAVE TO BE A LITERAL INFANT NOT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE FUCK HE'S DOING AND WHAT HE WANTS. And then HE does what the heck he's supposed to do - which is do all the Yuki stuff (I'll talk about her in the later paragraphs) and Laurel goes all "oh youre hooking up with her now?? you didnt even LOOK at me during the dance while i was with david. how dare you close your eyes and enjoy another girl."
BITCH- okay. I need to breathe. In and out. I cannot believe what I'm reading. I cannot believe what I'm enduring. This shit is the most whiney, attention-seeking little bullshit anyone can do. She makes him jealous, gets angry at her own boyfriend for being jealous for very real and valid reasons, then gets jealous at Tamani for doing his fucking job, and expects both of them to still pant after her because she does not want to lose the longing in their eyes. Because she enjoys being loved by both. Fuck you, Laurel. Fuck you.
I am sick of reading any more of this immature and very, very annoying back and forth. I don't know why the author decided to make that the entire plotline of the book, but I seemingly got nothing out of what initially lead me to read Illusions in the first place.
Everything I learned regarding world-building and Avalon and all the faerie customs was just gone and replaced by this bull right there. You know, it's funny, because when Tamani suddenly appeared at school, I was kind of excited. I actually thought this was gonna go somewhere really cool, and granted, obviously there was gonna be a clash between David and Tamani, but instead -- instead I read through these pages and realised more and more how ridiculously enarmoured they are with Laurel, who is literally not special in any way. I genuinely do not understand why the fuck they like her; why Tamani lets himself be tortured like this.
But let me zoom out really quick and talk about the characters generally really quick:
You know, I kinda liked Tamani. I thought there was going to be more of him on a deeper level, in the sense that I wanted to see some faults, to see some spirit in him. But instead, the author wrote him as this love-sick, passion-ridden guy who wouldn't stop at anything to make Laurel his. Laurel is his entire world. He does not have any other priorities in his life, and it kind of really pisses me off, because I don't feel like they have a history to base it on. They don't have any kind of proper relationship in that way. It just felt really artificial.
Then there's David, and he feels so bland. There is nothing to this guy, no essence. I have no idea what kind of person he is, because the author wrote him out to be one of those guys whose entire personality is fitted to the protagonist. Him and Tamani, they both are there to love Laurel, not becuase they exist as their own person.
Mentioning that -- Chelsea. Literally useless person in this book, in this entire series. What is her point. There is literally no use, no worth to her regarding to the story, because she doesn't bring anything. She's a little bit of drama, and that's it. There is literally nothing I'm getting from her. I don't know who the fuck she is and to be honest, I couldn't care less if she died in a car accident or got eaten by trolls in the next chapter.
Oh yeah, speaking of trolls. ??????????? Remember when they were supposed to be a danger, or to have some sort of conflict going on with the faeries? Yeah, where did that go? We got literally nothing. It was useless "suspense" throughout the chapters (except really, it was only useless love triangles because in the end, the suspense wasn't even fleshed out. Nothing happened). I thought hey, it's gonna be just as magical as the last book, to read more about this world and learn more about the different seasons. But instead, I got this trash.
Now on to Yuki -- she was honestly the most interesting part of the entire story and she didn't even appear that much. We knew nothing of her (because if Laurel had gotten her head out of her ass with all the boys drama, we might have) and yet she was still the best part, and that was because I knew there was a secret with her. She might be the one who ends up having a more complex characterisation, but having read the past three books, I don't believe that this is what is going to happen. Nonetheless, she stays the "highlight".
Then the ending happened, and let me just say that it was a very cheap but lowkey effective way of keeping us interested. Because had that not happened, I would DNF this series right at this point.
readingslug's review against another edition
5.0
Loved it! :D Can't wait for the next book, I can't believe it just ended like that! :(
amina_the_second's review against another edition
3.0
I guess after the first two books, and the ending of Spells, I went into this one with a bit of too-high expectations..
I must say...I HATE love triangles.
Other than that, great book, great story. Super interesting.
But Laurel is too indecisive, and Tamani and David are too pushy
I must say...I HATE love triangles.
Other than that, great book, great story. Super interesting.
But Laurel is too indecisive, and Tamani and David are too pushy
sandraagee's review against another edition
4.0
3.5 stars, rounded up. The romantic angst dominates this story far more than it did in [b:Wings|5056084|Wings (Wings, #1)|Aprilynne Pike|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1275773575s/5056084.jpg|5122699] and [b:Spells|6801582|Spells (Wings, #2)|Aprilynne Pike|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dWyNo-EqL._SL75_.jpg|7008092] as poor Laurel can't seem to make up her mind. But considering that half the book is narrated from Tamani's perspective (amongst other clues), I can't help but feel like we're starting to head in that direction. Too bad, as I was definitely leaning Team David. *sigh*
Otherwise, not a ton going on in this book as we transition into the final conflict sure to come in the next (and final) book. But still, if there's one thing that author Aprilynne Pike does very well it's writing conclusions that make you very eager to find out what comes next. This proved true again as the intrigue surrounding newcomer Yuki finally got interesting in the last few pages of this book. I am confident that the final installment will build on her story and bring the series to a satisfying conclusion.
Otherwise, not a ton going on in this book as we transition into the final conflict sure to come in the next (and final) book. But still, if there's one thing that author Aprilynne Pike does very well it's writing conclusions that make you very eager to find out what comes next. This proved true again as the intrigue surrounding newcomer Yuki finally got interesting in the last few pages of this book. I am confident that the final installment will build on her story and bring the series to a satisfying conclusion.
jlove731's review against another edition
5.0
I absolutely adored Wings and Spells. Illusions was no different. It was a fast-paced journey I couldn't put down and I loved it. I have to say, Illusions, had a slightly different feel than the first two. For me at least!
Illusions picks up with Laurel beginning her senior year with David, whom she thought she finally made her love choice. But, dun dun dun out of the blue, Tamani returns in all his hot, sexy glory and informs Laurel that something has been going on and she needs protecting once again. With trolls disappearing, Klea returning with a mysterious young girl named Yuki, Laurel having love issues, and trying to deciding where she'll end up in life... Illusions is surely a story you don't want to miss!
Let me start by saying, I'm still Team Tamani! In the first book, I loved them both. In the second, I started to move towards Tam, and well! I'm still Team Tamani all the way!! David is a sweet heart I do like him, I just like Laurel with Tamani more. Plus, I have a feeling Chelsea and David may end up together!
With Illusions, its not so much faerie as it is development. We see huge struggles in Laurel... She's fighting her emotions constantly on which boy she should chose and if she should return to Avalon or stay on earth. This was such a tough book for Laurel, and man when Tamani was with Yuki, I found myself getting jealous, I wanted to slap the smile off her face too! I also really hope we see more Avalon in book four, I missed it!
There so many great quotes in this story. And I totally relate when Laurels mom tells her "There are many different kinds of love." Just because someone has been there for you, doesn't mean you're in love with them and I can so relate, man can I. It's these types of books I love, when I relate to the situations. They make you stop and think "waaaiiit a second". Just because it's a fictional book doesn't mean it can't help you in real life.
Overall, fantastic book in the series and I am DYING for book four! Oh heck how Illusions ended!!! Like What?!! I need book four like two days ago! And final words... Team Tamani <3 :)
Illusions picks up with Laurel beginning her senior year with David, whom she thought she finally made her love choice. But, dun dun dun out of the blue, Tamani returns in all his hot, sexy glory and informs Laurel that something has been going on and she needs protecting once again. With trolls disappearing, Klea returning with a mysterious young girl named Yuki, Laurel having love issues, and trying to deciding where she'll end up in life... Illusions is surely a story you don't want to miss!
Let me start by saying, I'm still Team Tamani! In the first book, I loved them both. In the second, I started to move towards Tam, and well! I'm still Team Tamani all the way!! David is a sweet heart I do like him, I just like Laurel with Tamani more. Plus, I have a feeling Chelsea and David may end up together!
With Illusions, its not so much faerie as it is development. We see huge struggles in Laurel... She's fighting her emotions constantly on which boy she should chose and if she should return to Avalon or stay on earth. This was such a tough book for Laurel, and man when Tamani was with Yuki, I found myself getting jealous, I wanted to slap the smile off her face too! I also really hope we see more Avalon in book four, I missed it!
There so many great quotes in this story. And I totally relate when Laurels mom tells her "There are many different kinds of love." Just because someone has been there for you, doesn't mean you're in love with them and I can so relate, man can I. It's these types of books I love, when I relate to the situations. They make you stop and think "waaaiiit a second". Just because it's a fictional book doesn't mean it can't help you in real life.
Overall, fantastic book in the series and I am DYING for book four! Oh heck how Illusions ended!!! Like What?!! I need book four like two days ago! And final words... Team Tamani <3 :)