Reviewed by Marjolein Balm 
Laurel thinks she is just an ordinary girl. Everything is normal about her life. She has just relocated with her parents from Orick to Crescent City and started at her new high school, where she almost immediately makes friends with her classmate David.
When she is walking to a wood outside her old house, she feels a little spot on her back. The spot grows out to a larger and larger bump, and one day, the bump is gone, but instead of that.. there are two big flower petals on her back, that look like wings. Laurel is shocked and scared and doesn’t know what to do with the wings, so she hides them in scarves under her clothes. Her mom is trying to sell the old house, and the person in charge of that is the strange Mr. Barnes.
When walking to the wood again, Lauren meets Tamani, a strange creature who tells Laurel the thruth about life: she is a faerie! Laurel was put in a basket on the doorstep of her parents house, and has always been a faerie, and she is sort of a plant. Tamani tells Laurel that the ground that connects with the wood beside Laurel’s old house belongs to her and her family, and must not be sold to anybody else, but her mom wants to sell it because they need the money. When Laurel’s father gets seriously sick, Laurel has to do something to stop Mr. Barnes, she risks her and David’s safety, but to save her father and the wood and creatures that live there, she has to do it..
Wings is a very different, very original and lovely book by Aprilynne Pyke. One of the better Young Adult novels I’ve read. It’s kind of a modern fairy tale with unexpected twists in the plot, I really like to read that, as I love books like Ella Enchanted. If you like fairy tales and young adult books, this is the perfect mix! I enjoyed reading it and I loved to read that it is going to be a series of books, I am looking forward to read the sequel!
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