Ink Exchange
by Melissa Marr
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Read in February, 2008
Welcome back to the world first created by Melissa Marr for Wicked Lovely. A world where faeries exist and roam among humans without their knowledge. In this companion novel to Wicked Lovely, we get to know Leslie, one of Ash’s best friends. Since Ash and Keenan defeated the Winter Queen and gained power, peace has reigned between the Summer and Winter Courts. Ash doesn’t go anywhere without guards and her closest friends are guarded too.
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Read in April, 2008
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Read in May, 2008
Wicked Lovely, Melissa Marr's first novel, was on my Best of 2007 list and I've been very excited about the sequel, Ink Exchange. The storyline follows Aislinn's friend Leslie. Leslie is surrounded by a fog of secrets and unable to break through the fog because of something that happened to her while Aislinn was caught up in her own set of the tumultuous events in ...more
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Leslie has led a troubled life ever since her mother walked out on her family. Her father has turned to alcohol and can’t be depended on to do anything like paying the bills unless he’s in a good mood. Her brother Ren has turned to drugs, and unfortunately, hanging out with than crowd under the influence has caused horrible things to happen to Leslie. But Leslie is so ashamed and tries to hide it. She refuses to tell her friends and works as a waitress so she can pay the bills. She feels tra...more
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Read in May, 2008
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Set in the same world as Wicked Lovely, Melissa Marr's first novel, Ink Exchange focuses on the Dark Court of the faeries. While it might not be necessary to have read the first novel to understand the gist of the story, it is mighty helpful to read it for background information and to understand certain characters.
Living with a deadbeat dad and a druggie brother, Leslie struggles to survive each day. After being sold by her brother for drugs and raped by his friends, she shuts down. Feeling...more
Living with a deadbeat dad and a druggie brother, Leslie struggles to survive each day. After being sold by her brother for drugs and raped by his friends, she shuts down. Feeling...more
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Read in May, 2008
This isn't a book to read if you haven't read Wicked Lovely. I prefer sequels that can stand on their own and this one doesn't. It also broke one of my *rules* for fantasy stories, which is that the first pages cannot introduce a ridiculous number of unpronounceable or clearly made-up names. It makes the story impossible to get into because you're struggling over names and, in this case, trying to remember if you met them in the last book, or if they've appeared from nowhere. I remembered...more
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Reviewed by Lynn Crow for TeensReadToo.com
Torn up inside after her drug-dealer brother betrays her in the most horrible way, Leslie puts on a brave front with her friends, pretending her drunken dad isn't letting the bills pile up and hiding all her pain. Hoping to take back control over her body, she decides to get a tattoo, and picks out a special design at the tattoo parlor she often hangs out at. Unbeknownst to Leslie, that tattoo is the symbol of Irial, the king of the faerie Dark Court...more
Torn up inside after her drug-dealer brother betrays her in the most horrible way, Leslie puts on a brave front with her friends, pretending her drunken dad isn't letting the bills pile up and hiding all her pain. Hoping to take back control over her body, she decides to get a tattoo, and picks out a special design at the tattoo parlor she often hangs out at. Unbeknownst to Leslie, that tattoo is the symbol of Irial, the king of the faerie Dark Court...more
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Read in April, 2008
The sequel to the amazing Wicked Lovely tells the story of one of Aislinn's human friends who doesn't know anything about the faeries living around them or that Aislinn is now Queen of the Summer Court. Leslie is a girl whose life has turned upside down, her mother left, her father turned inward, her brother deals drugs, and she was sold as a sexual favor to cover his debts. She is damaged but not broken as she turns to a tattoo to restart her life, declaring her body her own again. But it is...more
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Read in May, 2008
Marr's follow up to her first novel, Wicked Lovely, is as engaging and vivid. I love that her characters are presented with tough decisions and the solutions are tough as well. There is no candy coating here and the consequences feel real and ring true. Another real strength of Ink Exchange is that there are no black and white characters - every single one is multifacted and neither wholly good nor bad. It's kinda hard to figure out who to root for. The pacing and description are perfect and jus...more
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Read in July, 2008
Melissa Marr writes real fairy tales - the kind where the little mermaid actually dies and Red Riding Hood gets eaten. Fairies aren't nice, happy little folk with cute wings. She adds to this the intensity of growing up, of living with alcoholic parents, of drugs and sex and all the things that young people actually deal with. High school is not a nice, happy place for most kids. But there are choices - some different from the expected - and her young women are tough. Tinkerbell wouldn't last a ...more
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Read in June, 2008
recommends it for:
anyone who enjoys Holly Black or Laurell K. Hamilton's "Merry Gentry" series
I hate to give this one just 2 stars when I loved the first one so much, but I was just disappointed in it. It's not a bad book at all. On the contrary, Melissa Marr does some great work with the "mythology" of faeries much like Laurell K. Hamilton does with the Merry Gentry series (which I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I read -- I just can't stop). I think what disappointed me was how dark the book was for a teen book.
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Read in July, 2008
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Anyone liking dark urban fantasy
I was on the edge of giving this book a two, but gave it a three because it took an interesting walk in the gray, when it could have stayed black and white.
Melissa Mar reprises the modern day faerie world she started in "Wicked Lovely." We find that Aislynn's friend Leslie has suffered horribly at the hands of her drug-addicted brother and non-existant alcholic father. To prove to herself she can survive she decides to get a symbol of change tattooed on her skin.
Lesile is desp...more
Melissa Mar reprises the modern day faerie world she started in "Wicked Lovely." We find that Aislynn's friend Leslie has suffered horribly at the hands of her drug-addicted brother and non-existant alcholic father. To prove to herself she can survive she decides to get a symbol of change tattooed on her skin.
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Read in June, 2008
This sequel to Wicked Lovely centers on Aislinn’s friend Leslie. Ever since her mother left, Leslie has been trying to hide how bad things have been at home, with an absent father and a drug-addicted, abusive brother. She has decided that a tattoo will give her back control over her body and mind, but she doesn’t know that the king of the Dark Court of the faeries has arranged an ink exchange: her tattoo will allow him, and his court, to feed on the emotions of mortals.
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if you liked Twilight, try this!
I should be reading My Heart is on the Ground, but I couldn't resist starting this one instead. I really loved Wicked Lovely by Marr, and this is the sequel. So far, it's a little trickier to get into, you would definitely be a bit lost if you hadn't read the first book, and it's a bit repetitious, but the story, oh! the story! It's one of those books I have trouble putting down.
There are faeries all around us, we just can't see them. At least, most of us can't. Aislinn, from ...more
There are faeries all around us, we just can't see them. At least, most of us can't. Aislinn, from ...more
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Read in May, 2008
In this sequel to "Wicked Lovely," Aislinn's friend Leslie's story is expanded. After experiencing a horrible attack by her junkie brother's dealers, Leslie decides to take back her life symbolically by picking the perfect tattoo from tattoo artist Rabbit's sketches. Little does she know that she has been watched by the faeries in town for weeks, including Keenan and Aislinn's ally Niall, who seems to have developed feelings for her. When Leslie chooses an intricate tattoo of wings ...more
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Read in July, 2008
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Read in July, 2008
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Read in May, 2008
A really exciting story about a girl names Leslie who is drawn to a particular tattoo, except she doesn't know that this tattoo binds her to the faery Dark King of the Dark Court. At the same time, Niall of the Summer Court also finds himself attracted to Leslie but knows he cannot associate with mortals especially one he has been assigned to guard by the Summer Queen.
Very entertaining and I found myself really liking Leslie. However, the drama around the faery world and courts can get con...more
Very entertaining and I found myself really liking Leslie. However, the drama around the faery world and courts can get con...more
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Read in June, 2008
I was anxiously awaiting this sequel to Wicked Lovely but it was just okay. Dark, sexual, set in a faery-filled modern world - sounds enticing but was strangely boring and political. Warring faery kings blah blah. If you love this kind of stuff then by all means pick up the book.
Leslie is Aislynn's best friend, so Aislynn has had her watched to make sure she stays out of harm and away from the faery realms. But Aislynn wasn't watching close enough and Leslie has been abused and assaulte...more
Leslie is Aislynn's best friend, so Aislynn has had her watched to make sure she stays out of harm and away from the faery realms. But Aislynn wasn't watching close enough and Leslie has been abused and assaulte...more
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Read in May, 2008
I'm one of the few people who doesn't find Marr's books amazing--or really, even particularly good. They're OK, but in both this and Wicked Lovely I felt like the story was foggy. Maybe I'm just dense, I don't know, but the characters don't stand out in my mind, and the plot and magic is unclear. In this book I'm not even sure exactly what happens; I think Irial, an evil faery, wants Leslie for his own so he can "feed" off o...more
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