![]() And the Winter Queen, who happens to be Keenan’s mother, is definitely icy. But if she fails the test, she instead takes on “Winter’s chill” and becomes the “Winter Girl”, which is kind of like a runner-up position that involves serving the Winter Queen for eternity. To do this, she must pass a test by grasping the staff of the Winter Queen. The plot is fairly simple and easy to articulate: Keenan is the Summer King, but the majority of his power lays dormant until he can find a human to become his Summer Queen. So, naturally, the story kicks off when a faery manifests himself in human form to try to pick Aislinn up. She can’t let on that she can see them, because that would attract their attention, which is the last thing she wants. They’re everywhere but ordinarily invisible. ![]() In Wicked Lovely, Aislinn is a teenage girl like many other teenage girls-except she can see faeries. ![]() ![]() Thanks to their firm grounding in folklore across Europe, with plenty of hints as to a larger society and hierarchy, faeries offer a reach source of material when one needs supernatural creatures with a little class. Zombies, too, prey upon our fear of a loss of self and self-determination. Vampires are really very individualistic, singular monsters: they are an outward manifestation of our obsessions with mortality, sexuality, and appetite. Supernatural creatures capture our imaginations for all sorts of reasons. ![]()
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