Wings

WINGS

A FAIRY TALE

By: E.D. Baker

  FIRST SENTENCE

“Tamisin Warner first saw real goblins the Halloween she was eleven.”

SUMMARY

from goodreads

When Tamisin discovers real wings growing from her back she wants to know what is making her supposedly normal life so weird.  But before she can piece together the facts, she is kidnapped by goblins and brought to the land of fairies, goblins, and many other magical creatures … including her real mother, Titania, the fairy queen.  As she falls in love with Jak, who’s half goblin, and realizes the depth of her human parents’ love for her, she finds that having a set of beautiful wings suddenly sprout from your shoulder blades isn’t all bad, and there are many good reasons to fly …

REVIEW

Wings offers a bit of a twist to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  While there are fairies, magic, and a spooky forest in both, the plots are quite different.

Tamisin was always a little different from the other girls at school.  Sometimes her face would sparkle, she would dance when the moon was full, and she could see invisible goblins.  A little different became A LOT different though when Tamisin sprouted wings.  She was startled by this, but she did not go berserk like I would have expected.

Tamisin’s quest to understand why she had wings led her to an enchanted land of fairies and goblins.  She didn’t go there willingly though – she was kidnapped.  While there, she met her fairy mother and fell in love with Jak, who was half goblin.  It was all very confusing in the goblin world and I was glad that Jak offered some explanations.

I would have liked the story better if it had all taken place in the fairy/goblin world.  It was hard to picture the characters going back and forth between worlds without being found out in the human world.  As well, I still had questions at the end of the story and wondered what eventually became of Tamisin and Jak.

A good book, but not as fantastic as E.D. Baker’s other titles.

RATING

3        Plot

4        Characters

4        Attention Grabbing

4        Girlie Meter

3        Ending

18      TOTAL

4        STARS