I was recently introduced to the fairy-focused Wicked Lovely series and have now listened to the first four books.
Finally, I felt it was weird how little Aislinn was in the book, and I felt we should've learned more about the dark court instead of just listening to them drone on and on about how Leslie and Irial are feeling and never getting to the point. Maybe she turned him into a fake Irial on purpose to make a point, but she's taking her damn time making the point of there is one. I get that Keenan betrayed him and sure he's angry, but by the next book he's basically just a Discount Irial™ with no real personality traits of his own, nothing interesting going on in his head, and everything I liked about him from the first book and beginning of this one (being respectful etc) is 100% erased in favor of his new smoking habit and Edgy Anger©. Also, I think the personality change for Niall was extremely sudden and confusing. Yes, I know these are faeries, but the main cast of faeries behaves remarkably like mortals and mortal values are pushed onto them at every turn by the author, so I felt sort of like "pick a lane" either have evil faeries who don't give a #$_& or have faeries that are basically just pretty magic humans. Not a fan of how they say her pact was "her choice" yet they didn't explain jack about what would happen so very obviously it wasn't. The whole book just felt both too slow and rushed at the same time - Irial is a huge jerk and yet she keeps going on about how much she loves him which I hate. I didn't like the way she portrayed her being "emotionless" because I don't feel it was particularly compelling. I didn't like following Leslie around as she makes stupid decision after stupid decision. I didn't like the very sudden change of main cast and perspective without a whole lot of reasoning why. I really liked the concept of the magic at play, but I didn't like how it was framed. With all of the other names he got right i just don't understand how he messed this one up so egregiously. That made my ears bleed every single time he mentioned her name - and the narrator of the previous one did it wrong as well. It may be spelled Aisling sometimes but even that spelling it is a silent G. FFS, the way its spelled in these books doesn't even *have* a G, so how in tf are you even getting that confused? I sincerely hope the author doesn't legit think Aislinn is pronounced with a G at the end. It's pronounced ASH-LIN you absolute knob. Before I even bother to say anything else about the actual book I think this needs to come first: the absolute worst part of these audiobooks is that the narrator can't effing pronounce the (arguably) *main* character of the series' name correctly.
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