Destined by Aprilynne Pike

First things first: cover art! WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS? I mean its absolutely gorgeous! The water droplets were my favorite thing about the third book in this series (to see my reviews of the other books in this series click here, here, and here) and so I absolutely love this one! It looks dark and mysterious but there is also a twinge of light in the center of the flower, meant to represent hope perhaps? However I do think that this flower is meant to represent Yuki's Blossom. 

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Summary:

" 'Tamani looked at her gravely, and reached up to touch her hair behind her ear. He hesitated for an instant, then his hands found the sides of her face, pulling her to him. He didn't kiss her, just held her face to his, their foreheads resting together, their noses almost touching.'

She hated how much it felt like good-bye.

Laurel now knows the truth: Yuki is a rare Winter faerie, the most powerful--and deadly--of all, and Klea plans to use her to help conquer or destroy Avalon. But Klea's reach extends far beyond one wild Winter faerie. With Tamani, David, and Chelsea by her side, Laurel prepares to face what may be Avalon's final days."

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AHHH! This book! So stressful! Avalon obviously has some problems in this book and a show down with pretty much everything that could destroy the land of the fairies shows up. This book is really what makes a lot of the older fairies "wake up" so to speak and realize that their world isn't as perfect as they thought it was. For example a certain character faked her death and grew a fairy outside of Avalon, something that was thought to be impossible. Well, obviously not. This book is sad, characters will die. Which is something I liked about this book, I am not a big fan of "everybody gets a happy ending!" books. Pike wasn't afraid to show her readers that this is a war and in war there are casualties. The death at the end of the book made me cry, which was weird to me because said character wasn't even one of my favorites. Again, movie producers pay attention to this series! Fairies don't really fly in these books so the CGI budget wouldn't even be that high either so please? Please make this into a movie! Oh, also if you didn't catch the summary the love triangle is over. But hey the book told you that, not me (winks). All loose ends are pretty much tied up for us, the readers, and the characters that need it get their happy endings. Read this series! Trust me, you will love it! 

Rating: 10 out of 10! So good! 

Content Rating: 3 (16-18). Teen romance, lots of gore (they are fighting trolls after all), and a lot of violence, and a couple of swear words.