Reading Teen

Ugh! I hate doing negative reviews! Sometimes I don't even know if I should write them or not because I just feel so bad for the author. I've Tweeted with Aprilynn a couple of times, and I think she's such a sweet person, so that makes this even harder.....however......I was really disappointed with this book. There, I said it.Even though I thought Wings was a little strange (it just sounds weird that the Faeries are plants and they keep talking about Laurel's blossom), I did actually enjoy it. So, I was looking forward to this book coming out. I even went to Borders and bought it on release day...without a coupon (lesson learned). The beginning was ok. I was halfway through the book before much time had passed, and I was semi-enjoying it, and waiting for the excitement that was bound to happen at any moment, but I just kept waiting. Seriously, other than a couple of minor run-ins with the same enemies as in Wings.....nothing happened. I thought this book was going to be about Laurel and Tamani, but even when Laurel was in Avalon (which wasn't that much) Tamani was barely there. And when she was home, all she did was work on trying to make potions and lay around with David. At the end of this book, I felt like all the characters were in exactly the same place that they were in at the end of the first book. The only difference was that Laurel got some Faerie schooling (and so did we because there was a lot of descriptions of plants and their magical worth), and meets a suspicious character that I'm assuming we'll find out more about in the next book.All in all, I would say this book was ok, but definitely not worth buying. If you're bored with nothing else to do, go to the library and read it. If you have other books you want to read, skip this one and just head straight for book 3 when it comes out. Shoot me an email and I'll give you a summary :) I'll still be reading book 3 because I did like Wings and I want to know how it ends, but I think this series would've been better without this book, or at least just adding some of its main points to the other books.Sorry Aprilynne! Really!