Fragile Eternity (Wicked Lovely Series #3)

by Melissa Marr

Overview

In the third mesmerizing tale in Melissa Marr’s #1 New York Times bestselling Wicked Lovely series, old friends become new enemies—and one wrong move could plunge the Earth into chaos.

Seth never expected he would want to settle down with anyone, but that was before Aislinn. She is everything he'd ever dreamed of, and he wants to be with her forever. Forever takes on new meaning, though, when your girlfriend is an immortal faery queen.

Aislinn never expected to rule the very creatures who'd always terrified her, but that was before Keenan. He stole her mortality to make her a monarch, and now she faces challenges and enticements beyond any she'd ever imagined.

Seth and Aislinn struggle to stay true to themselves and each other—all while navigating the shadowy rules and shifting allegiances of the Faery Courts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061852084
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	04/21/2009
Series:	Wicked Lovely Series , #3
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
File size:	614 KB
Age Range:	13 Years

About the Author

Melissa Marr writes fiction for adults, teens, and children. Her books have been translated into twenty-eight languages and been bestsellers in the US (NY Times, LA Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal) as well as overseas. Wicked Lovely, her debut novel, was an instant New York Times bestseller and evolved into an internationally bestselling multibook series. Over the last two decades, she's also published middle grade (The Hidden Knife), adult fiction (Graveminder), picture books (Bunny Roo, I Love You), and comics (The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley). If she's not writing, you can probably find her in a kayak or on a trail with her wife.

Editorial Reviews

Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange author Melissa Marr delivers another little masterpiece of Urban Faery, that budding subgenre. In this ethereal romance, Aislinn has achieved the fragile eternity of the title; she has become an immortal faery, complicating both her life and that of Seth, the man who loves her.

Marr's fantasy world is complex and involving.
—The New York Times

Regina Marler

Three months after the events of Wicked Lovely (2007), Aislinn and her boyfriend, Seth, are still trying to figure out the complex world of Faerie. Though Aislinn, as the Summer Queen, has an antagonistic relationship with the Winter Queen, Donia, Donia's frigidity is the least of Aislinn's problems. Elsewhere in the city, two sisters representing Order and Chaos predict war for Faerie. The overwrought, repetitive writing (one character "quirks his brow" at no fewer than three points in the book) that is Marr's trademark does not let up for a moment here. In spite of this, the plots of multiple love triangles and impending war manage to move much more smoothly from scene to scene than in Wicked Lovely or the companion Ink Exchange (2008). Romantics will be touched by Seth's undying, if blind, devotion to the ever-more-untouchable Aislinn; he goes so far as to become a faery himself in order to be with her forever. Like its predecessors, this book is a few hundred pages of mediocrity underneath an exquisite cover, and it will fly off library and bookstore shelves. (Fantasy. YA)

Kirkus Reviews

This urban fairy tale is impossible to put down.” — School Library Journal (starred review)

Praise for Wicked Lovely: “Riveting and dark: I love this tale!”—Tamora Pierce “A fully imagined faery world which even non-fantasy (or faerie) lovers will want to delve into.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A fully imagined faery world which even non-fantasy (or faerie) lovers will want to delve into.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“This dark fantasy about survival and transformation is as mesmerizing as its urban faery subjects.” — ALA Booklist

From the Publisher

This dark fantasy about survival and transformation is as mesmerizing as its urban faery subjects.

ALA Booklist