Extraordinary October by Diana WagmanMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
::..Reviewed for Red's Midnight Readers..::
I was given an arc of this in exchange for an honest review. My actual rating is 3.5 stars.
October is ordinary - average, a plain Jane. There's nothing special about her at all or so she thinks. It all starts with an itch that starts a few days before her eighteenth birthday and just won't go away. She then discovers she can now hear and talk to animals and suddenly the two new, very good looking boys at school both want her affections.
The story is written from a very immature point of view, which is good because it reminds you that this is in fact from the point of view of a 17 year old girl but grated on me in certain parts, there wasn't much in the way of character development but other than that it was an okay read. The plot was decent and well paced with a few surprises thrown in. I liked the magical elements, the fairies, trolls etc.
A decent YA read that isn't too taxing.
Blurb
October is an ordinary girl. From her plain looks to her average grades, there seems to be nothing special about her. Then, three days before her eighteenth birthday, she develops a strange itch that won’t go away, and her life is turned upside down. Suddenly, she can hear dogs talk, make crows fly, and two new and very handsome boys at school are vying for her affections. After she starts “transplanting” herself through solid rock, October learns that she is not ordinary at all, but the daughter of a troll princess and a fairy prince, and a pawn in a deadly war between the trolls and the fairies. Now October will have to use all of her growing powers to save her family, and stop a mysterious evil that threatens to destroy the fairy world.
In the fantastical vein of authors such as Julie Kagawa and Holly Black, Extraordinary October takes us on a magical journey from the streets of Los Angeles to the beautiful and mythical underground fairy kingdom.
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