The only thing about Wicked Lovely that irritated me was how ~*~alternative~*~ Aislinn, Seth, & Co. are. Yes, yes, tattoos and body piercings are ~edgy~ and people who have them are sparkly and a billion times more awesome than all us mundane types who get squicked by that stuff. *eyeroll*
Seth, especially, has that annoying autodidact dropout thing that's all "I'm too smart and awesome for school!" but he's living off a trust fund or something so he never has to pay any real social or economic price for not sticking with the educational system. And having known several extremely intelligent dropouts who now have to pay the price for their educational rebellion, that bothers me.
BUT I still liked the book, and there's a lot that Marr did right, I think. The way she resolves the major conflict is pretty awesome, I have to say.
Also your take on the Wars of the Roses pretty much looks like mine, except I do a lot more fumbling around over which Richard/Edward belongs to which color. I'm like, "HISTORY HAS ALREADY GIVEN US COLOR CODING, WHY CAN'T I FIGURE THIS OUT?!" But I never can.
Ah yes, we poor mundanes who can't understand cool when it's staring us in our non-pierced faces... I have that reaction sometimes as well. In fact, I don't think I did it on purpose, but the main characters in my story-I-never-finished are as *ordinary* and un-rebellious as it is possible to be, and that's really important to me.
HISTORY HAS ALREADY GIVEN US COLOR CODING, WHY CAN'T I FIGURE THIS OUT?!"
I know, right??? It is like they are wearing those mesh jerseys from PE class, and yet, still I am confused.
Seth, especially, has that annoying autodidact dropout thing that's all "I'm too smart and awesome for school!" but he's living off a trust fund or something so he never has to pay any real social or economic price for not sticking with the educational system. And having known several extremely intelligent dropouts who now have to pay the price for their educational rebellion, that bothers me.
BUT I still liked the book, and there's a lot that Marr did right, I think. The way she resolves the major conflict is pretty awesome, I have to say.
Also your take on the Wars of the Roses pretty much looks like mine, except I do a lot more fumbling around over which Richard/Edward belongs to which color. I'm like, "HISTORY HAS ALREADY GIVEN US COLOR CODING, WHY CAN'T I FIGURE THIS OUT?!" But I never can.
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HISTORY HAS ALREADY GIVEN US COLOR CODING, WHY CAN'T I FIGURE THIS OUT?!"
I know, right??? It is like they are wearing those mesh jerseys from PE class, and yet, still I am confused.
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