Debut Book: Wings

Here's another awesome debut book release I can't wait to sink into! Support my AbsoluteWrite fellow writers and pick up your copy today!

Title: Wings (click to Buy at Amazon.com)
Author: Aprilynne Pike
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Format: Hardcover



Laurel was mesmerized, staring at the pale things with wide eyes. They were terrifyingly beautiful—too beautiful for words.

Laurel turned to the mirror again, her eyes on the hovering petals that floated beside her head. They looked almost like wings.

In this extraordinary tale of magic and intrigue, romance and danger, everything you thought you knew about faeries will be changed forever.


Publishers Weekly

Pike's debut novel-a faerie story with a touch of Arthurian legend-offers a botanical twist on the genre. Laurel Sewell, the new girl in town, discovers a strange "zit" on her back, which blooms into a flower. With the help of her friend and growing love interest, David, with whom she entrusts this information, Laurel finds out that she is a faerie, and that faeries are really highly evolved plants (Pike gives readers hints: Laurel prefers to have lunch outside and eats little besides vegetables and Sprite). Tamani, her sexy faerie guardian, completes the love triangle, as he protects Laurel from encroaching dark forces and fills in the blanks about her past. As Laurel and David never muster much chemistry, her rocky journey of self-discovery is the main draw ("It makes me want to go home and go to sleep and wake up to find that all of this is a dream. That the flower, the bump, even public school never happened"). Pike's novel mythology should win fans for this book, billed as the first in a series. Ages 12-up.

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Here We Go Again: Mercury in Retrograde!

For those who believe in astrology, beware that Mercury went into its crazy retrograde cycle May 7 and can affect you until it straightens out on June 1. I've been affected by oddities during these times, which happens 3 - 4 times a year. It usually affects things like contracts and electronics, billings, etc. For more info, check out:http://www.astrologycom.com/mercret.html http://www.cafeastrology.com/mercuryretrograde.htmlhttp://www.astrologyzone.com/forecasts/mercury.html

Here's a little bit more about it: Mercury rules thinking and perception, processing and disseminating information and all means of communication, commerce, education and transportation. By extension, Mercury rules people who work in these areas, especially people who work with their minds or their wits: writers and orators, commentators and critics, gossips and spin doctors, teachers, travelers, tricksters and thieves.

Mercury retrograde gives rise to personal misunderstandings; flawed, disrupted, or delayed communications, negotiations and trade; glitches and breakdowns with phones, computers, cars, buses, and trains. And all of these problems usually arise because some crucial piece of information, or component, has gone astray, or awry.

It is therefore not wise to make important decisions while Mercury is retrograde, since it is very likely that these decisions will be clouded by misinformation, poor communication and careless thinking. Mercury is all about mental clarity and the power of the mind, so when Mercury is retrograde, these intellectual characteristics tend to be less acute than usual, as the critical faculties are dimmed. Make sure you pay attention to the small print.(Source: http://www.astrologycom.com/mercret.html)