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7 out of 8 people found this review helpful.
#3 and still intriguing
Fragile Eternity returns to the story of Seth and Aislinn and Keenan and Donia, the main couples in Wicked Lovely. Seth and Aislinn are perfect for each other. They have been through so much, but there is one thing neither one of them can help. Aislinn will live forever...Read More
Fragile Eternity returns to the story of Seth and Aislinn and Keenan and Donia, the main couples in Wicked Lovely. Seth and Aislinn are perfect for each other. They have been through so much, but there is one thing neither one of them can help. Aislinn will live forever, and Seth will not. Adding to the turmoil, as the Summer Equinox draws closer, so do Aislinn and Keenan, and Aislinn grows further apart from Seth. Seth decides to do the only thing he can do, which is exactly what EVERYONE else DOESN'T want him to do. Keenan still loves Doria, the Winter Queen, but if he has a chance with Aislinn, he's going to take it. And Doria is tired of waiting for her chance with him. In the first two novels, Keenan was not exactly my favorite character (THAT would be Seth) but in Fragile Eternity, his lovely, conflicted, not-all-as-it-seems personality fascinated me. I am just dying to know what he's all about. I am still not sure who is the good guy and who is the bad in this series, which just makes me want to keep reading. And, in case you're wondering, Donia is my least favorite character.Show Less
posted by Debbie-J-1970 on September 16, 2009
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7 out of 10 people found this review helpful.
Not as good as the others!
This book begins well enough, but as you get into it, it just seems to drag on, saying the same thing over and over just in a different way. I have to admit to really struggling with wanting to finish it, it got that repetitive and had very little substance to the stor...Read More
This book begins well enough, but as you get into it, it just seems to drag on, saying the same thing over and over just in a different way. I have to admit to really struggling with wanting to finish it, it got that repetitive and had very little substance to the story. By the time that I finally reached page 252, only two things of any importance had happened, the rest was just saying over and over that Ash loves Seth and Kennan loves Donia, beyond that no other message came through. I would highly suggest that you save your money and spend it on a much worthier book. The other 2 books in the series were wonderful and captivating, but this one is boring, redundant and not worth your time. Nothing really outstanding in it.Show Less
posted by LydiainJoliet on May 23, 2009
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Posted September 16, 2009
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#3 and still intriguing
Fragile Eternity returns to the story of Seth and Aislinn and Keenan and Donia, the main couples in Wicked Lovely. Seth and Aislinn are perfect for each other. They have been through so much, but there is one thing neither one of them can help. Aislinn will live forever, and Seth will not. Adding to the turmoil, as the Summer Equinox draws closer, so do Aislinn and Keenan, and Aislinn grows further apart from Seth. Seth decides to do the only thing he can do, which is exactly what EVERYONE else DOESN'T want him to do. Keenan still loves Doria, the Winter Queen, but if he has a chance with Aislinn, he's going to take it. And Doria is tired of waiting for her chance with him. In the first two novels, Keenan was not exactly my favorite character (THAT would be Seth) but in Fragile Eternity, his lovely, conflicted, not-all-as-it-seems personality fascinated me. I am just dying to know what he's all about. I am still not sure who is the good guy and who is the bad in this series, which just makes me want to keep reading. And, in case you're wondering, Donia is my least favorite character.
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Not as good as the others!
This book begins well enough, but as you get into it, it just seems to drag on, saying the same thing over and over just in a different way. I have to admit to really struggling with wanting to finish it, it got that repetitive and had very little substance to the story. By the time that I finally reached page 252, only two things of any importance had happened, the rest was just saying over and over that Ash loves Seth and Kennan loves Donia, beyond that no other message came through. I would highly suggest that you save your money and spend it on a much worthier book. The other 2 books in the series were wonderful and captivating, but this one is boring, redundant and not worth your time. Nothing really outstanding in it.
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Posted June 15, 2010
i honestly could not be more angry with a book
okay i am so sick of ash!!!! she doesn't shut up about anything and with her it's always the same god damn problem!!!! she loves seth and keinen oh god what ever will she do! shut up! i love the series and i have read radiant shadows and loved it and i loved all the other books but this one i just sat the thinking wow i hate all of them! i wish ash would stop being so stupid and selfish and just make a damn choice!!! this book made me want to hit something. i think you should read it just so you can get to radiant shadows but i honestly hated this book.
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Phenomenal!
I love this series, the second book (Ink Exchange) was my favorite. The emotional struggle Ash is going through makes my heartache. I don't want to give too much of the book away so I can't say much! Ms. Marr's eloquent use of language paints gorgeous pictures of an otherwise mythical world, helping it pop to life in the reader's mind!
one pet peeve..I think she found a new word: nonplussed....it's over used and you'll notice when it shows up...please use a thesaurus ms marr! argh!3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
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HannahFFR
Posted June 25, 2009
kinda lost my intrest
The first book in the series was amazing... the second one lost my attention there for i am having trouble reading Fragile Eternity. But over all it is a great series and i love the story.
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Posted March 7, 2009
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ANXIOUS!
Im so excited for this book to come out!. the series was awsome. Ink Exchange made me cry at the end *sniffle* i hope we get to know more about Seth in this book. he's like, the ideal guy!!! i really hope this isnt the end to the series though...AAHH i cant wait any more!
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Disappointing
I absolutely loved Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange, so when I found out about a third I was so excited and couldn't wait to read more from Melissa Marr (amazing author). However, I thought it was a lot slower than the other two in the series and it didn't pull me in at all. This is one of about three books I've ever actually left unfinished.
By the time I was 60 pages from the end I honestly didn't care what would happen to the characters.
Read the other two in this series, definitely, but I wouldn't ever reccommend this one.2 out of 4 people found this review helpful.
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Not that good
This book was a let down. I was excited to get it and it was boring.
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PatriciaJL
Posted February 14, 2011
Love Melissa Marr!
Once again Melissa Marr did an amazing job! Just like Wicked Lovely, the cover is amazing. Having loved the first book of this series so much, and having fell in love with Aislinn, Seth, and Keenan, I decided to skip over the second book and go straight to the 3rd.
Aislinn's adventures into the world of the Fey continue. She and Seth are finally together, but she is also taken her place with Keenan as his Summer Queen over the Summer Court. Aislinn tries desperately to keep a foot in both worlds, while fighting her unexplainable attraction to Keenan, and keeping Seth safe from the other Courts in the Fey world. Aislinn also struggles to keep her Court and Earth in harmony and aware from destruction.
Seth is very aware of Aislinn's new role ...more Aislinn's adventures into the world of the Fey continue. She and Seth are finally together, but she is also taken her place with Keenan as his Summer Queen over the Summer Court. Aislinn tries desperately to keep a foot in both worlds, while fighting her unexplainable attraction to Keenan, and keeping Seth safe from the other Courts in the Fey world. Aislinn also struggles to keep her Court and Earth in harmony and away from destruction.
You really feel for Seth in this book. He is very aware of Aislinn's new role as a Fey Queen. He is also very aware of his mortality. Seth struggles to find and keep his place with Aislinn while reassuring himself that she loves only him and not Keenan. In this book he search for a way to maintain that assurance.
In the first book of this series, Keenan was mainly portrayed as a selfish character (even though his search for a Queen was for his Court's good). However, in the third installment, we see a side of him never presented before. Keenan suffers. He knows he is supposed to be with Aislinn, and cares for her deeply, but is it love? Just like Aislinn, he struggles to keep a foot in two worlds, one where he knows he belongs and even wants to be in, another his heart calls for.1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
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I loved this book.That's prolly gonna be said about any book written by Mrs.Marr here,she's an amazing author.This is the sequel to Wicked Lovely and we learn what happens to the relationship that were formed and broken in Wicked Lovely and the companion novel Ink Excahnge.Aislinn(the summer queen) is in love with Seth and fears the day he will die because he is mortal.Seth wants to become a fey to be with Aislinn forever and protect her(he's really breakable around the strong fey)Donia(the winter queen) is still in love with Keenan(the summer king) and Keenan loves Donia but wants Aislinn (queen/partner) too.We find out what happens when Seth seeks immortality from the High Court queen Sorcha and what relationships will hold and break.I really hope if you haven't read anything by Melissa Marr you will go and get a book by her now. She's up there now as one of my favorite authors,the three books I have read of hers so far are amazingly good and entertaining. And we get these books from the woman who was voted most likely to end up in jail in high school lol!
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Fragile Eternity
Finally...a look into Ash's boyfriend, Seth. While this book doesn't necessarily revolve around him, it takes a long, hard, honest look into the relationship between the Summer Queen and her mortal boyfriend. We see how complicated and frustrated both are with the situation. While is immortal, she lives knowing that Seth will age and die and she will be without him for the majority of her life. Seth is terrified of losing Ash to the emotions and needs of her Faery Summer Court, and especially her Summer King.
Seth must find a way to stay with Ash forever, but his options are incredibly limited. To top it all off, Bananach, a faery that craves nothing but war and chaos, has her hands in the pot stirring away, hoping to start an all out war between the factions. Seth finds himself stuck in the middle, being used as a pawn to further various courts desires. Will he make the correct decisions, or will he cause the devastating war that Bananach hopes for?
This volume of Melissa Marr's series was quite intense. Everyone is at everyone else's throats over something. We are also introduced to the High Court, the court that almost never fully leaves the Faery realm. All the characters are forced to make hard decisions, decisions that could effect the balance of things everywhere. I did get a little tired of hearing Seth and Ash complain about their mortal/immortal situation. We realize this upsets you, I don't want to hear about it every 20 pages or so. However. this series just keeps going strong and it sounds like there may be more to come. I certainly hope so!
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Anonymous
Posted March 30, 2010
UMMMMMMM......
Ok i kinda really hated this book. i know that sounds kinda harsh but really it was so boring Ash is an idiot because she just soooooooooooo stupid about Seth and Keenan. i really thought this whole book was useless. now don't get me wrong i love he series but i just really hated how slow moving this book was. sorry.
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fragile eternity
Diving right into the third installment of Melissa Marr's lush written Wicked Lovely series, I was immediately bombarded with the sense of barely controlled tension. After some tricky maneuvering in Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange, Aislinn, Keenan, Seth, Donia and even Niall have all reached a somewhat tenuous balance but everyone knows the least little provocation could set off a war none of them can afford. Aislinn is thankfully settling into her role as co-Queen of the Summer Court but finding it daily harder and harder to hold Keenan at arms length when every instinct tells her she should get closer as summer draws nearer. And Keenan, well, he's never been a faery to miss a golden opportunity and he's not gonna budge an inch where Aislinn is concerned. He knows the stronger their bond is, the stronger the Summer Court will be and he's not going to let anything, let alone a mere mortal, get in the way of his goals. The mere mortal in question happens to be Seth - Aislinn's human boyfriend who is becoming increasingly frustrated with his mortality. Knowing he's too fragile and weak to truly protect Aislinn against any faery wishing her harm, he's stuck waiting on the sidelines, watching as Keenan draws her ever closer. This little love triangle is further complicated by Donia, who is slowly turning into the Ice Queen she truly is as she watches Keenan woo Aislinn while professing he truly loves only her. I'd be a little bitter too. And Niall? Well, we can all just sit back and appreciate the Dark Lord in action, because frankly, if I was the betting type, my money would be on him.
Melissa Marr has such a way with words, sending her readers into this convoluted world full of court politics and murky relationships. Each individual Marr introduces is more alive and solid than the previous with each adding their own spin to events. Often while reading this series, I've found Ms. Marr's faeries to be remarkably human. That could be due to the fact that the boundaries between faery and mortal are so thin in her world - they go to the same night clubs, the same parks - and not surprisingly, they often seem to have more human than faerie qualities. That said, when Seth travels to meet Sorcha of the High Court of Faeries, I was so entranced with her complete 'otherness' as a quintessential faery. I should have fully expected that someone embodying Faerie would be a little bit different but I was surprised by how imperial everything about Sorcha and her court appeared. Just loved the contrast.
There are so many characters to love in Fragile Eternity but I found myself constantly irritated with Aislinn. How did she stray so far from being one of my favorites? The girl makes some seriously deluded choices that made me want to strangle her. Out of every single character that has set foot in a Melissa Marr book, Niall has to be the winner - hands down. Who else could have began as a bodyguard and adviser and in one decisive step taken up the role of the King of the Dark Court and no one doubts for a minute that's where he belongs? That's right, NOBODY. I love his friendship with Seth and I love even more his barely controlled violence. He's freaking awesome.
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Could've Been Better, But I Liked It
Well if you've read the first two books (Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange) in this series then of course you must read Fragile Eternity.
About:
So, in this book Seth, Aislinn's mortal boyfriend, is struggling to keep Aislinn. He is determined to spend eternity loving Aislinn, not wanting to die and leave her with Keenan. Keenan wants to strengthen the Summer Court by really being with Aislinn, and throughout the story he tries to convince her.
My Thoughts on the Book:
Fragile Eternity was an alright book, not nearly as good as Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange (Ink Exchange is my favorite ^.^). In fiction books there is usually a problem that is set out to be resolved through the plot. In Fragile Eternity, I felt that the "problem" was not the core of the book as I feel it should have been. As I was reading, the plot seemed to move along slowly and there were several unnecessary parts used just to fill pages. The story ended too abruptly; it felt more like the end of a chapter than the end of a book. I felt the story was not wrapped up well enough. The reader is left hanging with hardly a clue of what is going on, having to wait for the next book to get the rest.
Please, do not get me wrong, although Fragile Eternity was disappointing, I did enjoy it. Having read the other books in the series, there was no way I could not.
I hope I helped :D Happy Reading!1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Anonymous
Posted June 26, 2009
ehh
kind of a let down the first two were so much better this one just kinda says the same stuff every chapter =(
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Excellent addition, can't wait till the next one!
I had been wondering how Seth really felt about Aislinn being the summer queen, I found out. This book seemed to bounce through more characters than the others but still kept the story together and didn't let me get lost. I love the new realtionship between Seth & Sorcha, I think it is very sweet & fits the series well. I really didn't feel sorry for Aislinn eventough she is torn between what was & what is and I still don't understand why Donia can't find love & move on from Keannen I hope she can find love in the final book to come. I can't wait.
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Fragile Eternity
After reading both WICKED LOVELY and INK EXCHANGE, i had ver high expectations for this book. And let me tell you, i was not disapointed. From the first page, Melissa Marr cages you into this insane, twisted, wonderful world of Faery. I was hooked. Marr writes so beautifully it is hard not to believe tht you are there (in the court of your choosing) watching it all play out. i loved seeing new insight on all of the courts. you learn so much more about the Summer, Dark, Winter, and even the ever-mysterious High Court. Also i love the development of Seth (Aislinn's mortal). i love how twisted my feeling got. i'd always loved Seth but then as the story goes you start to question whether he is best for her. Marr does that. makes you feel whatever the characters are feeling. it was so magical. i loved every page. i know we all tend to do the paragraph skipping thing, but this one will have you going over every word to get the most out of it. LOVED LOVED LOVED, worth buying your own copy. cant wait until the other stories! you should defiately invest in your own hardback copy of this book! it's one of those ones you're gonna take with you everywhere, and you're not gonna want it to get messed up!!
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Beautifully written, intriguing characters, and a fantastical world to disappear into.
Fragile Eternity is just as beautiful as Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange. The characters are compelling, the style is graceful, the series is addicting, and the wording is beautiful - you simply can't ask for more out of a book.
This book follows the story line of Wicked Lovely rather than the direct story of Ink Exchange (although it perfectly encompasses the world of Ink Exchange) and it is a perfect third book. I had several people tell me, "You'll wish it never ends!" and I absolutely, wholeheartedly agree.
I won't review the plot hardly at all, as that can ruin it, but what I will say is simply: read it. You will not be disappointed - you'll only be disappointed when you reach the end of the book.
I can't say enough how truly developed the characters are and what a beautiful world Marr creates-- really! It's breathtaking, but terrifying, real, but fantasy, beautiful and light, but dark and sinister; lovely but brooding. A perfect mix that only a beautiful writer could put together.
Read it and enjoy.1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Anonymous
Posted April 3, 2009
Exotic, Chaotic, Wild, And. Weird (Reviewed by TheBookworm)
Fragile Eternity
By Melissa Marr
Pub. Date: April 2009
3 out of 5 stars
R- Violence, Sexual Content, and Profanity
Not Recommended
Aislinn is not only struggling to understand Faerie politics, but also her involuntary pull to her King, her partner, Keenan. She tries to extinguish her lustful thoughts and feelings, but the spark never dies. Seth is her true love, not Keenan. right?
Seth is feed up with being Aislinn's vulnerability. She is now a Faerie Queen and it's wrong to burden her even more. He is determined to once again become Aislinn's equal and to truly be able to spend eternity together.
But who will Seth turn to if the good guys are unwilling to help? And will Aislinn stay true, or succumb to her lustful desires?
Fragile Eternity was exotic, chaotic, wild, and . weird. The Faerie in this book were almost intoxicating. Magic, lust, envy, and greed were all present in huge amounts. I haven't read Wicked Lovely and I found Fragile Eternity confusing quite often. This Faerie world was extremely broad and assorted, making it difficult to learn about one specific branch. I could not grasp the boundaries of Faerie. Did all these Faerie Courts sit on one block? The characters, figuratively speaking, flew from one house to another quickly and back to the Mortal World. Or did the Faerie world exist in the Mortal World? Wait, I mean. do both Immortal and Mortal share the dimension? Or. I'm so confused!
Melissa Marr did an excellent job with giving an almost even amount of "face time" to each character in the book. Every one got their moment of perspective, so I got a little insight into every character also.
I found it very odd that my favorite characters were the "bad" guys. The "good" guys all acted frivolous, in-the-moment, and even ditzy. Niall, Sorcha, and Seth, the "bad" guys, all expressed courage, compassion, responsibility, strength, and logic skill. They each were feared by other Faeries because of their inability to be swayed, their constant cool/relaxed attitude, and their maturity. The whole time while reading I felt the urge to yell, "She doesn't deserve you, Seth!" and its true, Aislinn didn't. I was happily surprised and impressed at the choice Seth presented Aislinn at the end. "You go, Seth!". The only reason why I'm going to finish this trilogy is, Seth. I wish the best for him and I hope to see that he receives it.
I don't feel any reason why I should recommend Fragile Eternity. It was overall, an okay book, but why would I want to recommend an "okay" book full of lust, envy, greed, and confusion? If you have read Wicked Lovely or you think this book sounds interesting, go ahead and read it. But if you are kind of iffy or younger than 14, just skip it. There are plenty of other books worth your time!
Date Reviewed: March 30th, 2009
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i am soooooooooo excited!!!
I loved wicked lovely and ink exchange and now i can not wait till the new one!! i am so excited!!!
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