false 2321296 13 <p> Unbeknownst to mortals, a power struggle is unfolding in a world of shadows and danger. After centuries of stability, the balance among the Faery Courts has altered, and Irial, ruler of the Dark Court, is battling to hold his rebellious and newly vulnerable fey together. If he fails, bloodshed and brutality will follow. </p> <p> Seventeen-year-old Leslie knows nothing of faeries or their intrigues. When she is attracted to an eerily beautiful tattoo of eyes and wings, all she knows is that she has to have it, convinced it is a tangible symbol of changes she desperately craves for her own life. </p> <p> The tattoo does bring changes; not the kind Leslie has dreamed of, but sinister, compelling changes that are more than symbolic. Those changes will bind Leslie and Irial together, drawing Leslie deeper and deeper into the faery world, unable to resist its allures, and helpless to withstand its perils. . . . </p> 2327820 book 1 5 2008 Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2) total:3780|5:876|4:1248|3:1142|2:418|1:96| 3780 13730 6206 627 2 6 false false Tue Dec 30 07:26:54 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 07:26:54 -0800 2008 The teen librarian where I work told me that the teens are eating these books up, but I can only figure that the appeal is the fact that teenagers are...more...]]> 3 6 false false Wed May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 06:22:28 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 12:32:27 -0700 2008 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 make...more...]]> 4 7 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 09:36:14 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 09:38:24 -0700 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 wh...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 20:06:01 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 11:18:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Fri Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Feb 02 17:53:18 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 21 21:36:37 -0700 2008
Melissa has a wonderful voice and a great sense of the faery world. I applaud her.]]> 3 3 false true Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 13:25:38 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 23:43:26 -0700 2008 Wicked Lovely, and while I liked this, too, it just didn't grab me in the same way. I loved the first half/ two-thirds of Ink Exchange, once the ink exchange took effect, I felt like the story got convoluted.

The story focuses on Leslie, a close friend of Ai...more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 10:36:30 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 11:44:58 -0800 2009 Wicked Lovely, and one of the more entertaining aspects was seeing the characters from WL from a new perspective. This story is a bit darker in tone - Leslie has a bad family situation and was recently raped (although this is more referred to th...more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 05:50:35 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 11:09:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 3 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Apr 13 04:17:25 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 04:28:18 -0700 2009 Wicked Lovely, I expected this work to be an entertaining, dark-ish, YA fantasy with themes of finding love, belonging, dealing with authority/power, etc. What I encountered was...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 09:12:57 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 11:44:29 -0800 2009
Melissa Marr's debut novel, Wicked Lovely, was tops on my Best Reads of 2007. Fairies live unseen among mortals and the balance between the various fairie "species" (?) and factions is tenuous at best.

I so wanted to like ...more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Mar 13 18:44:24 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 18:44:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 10:33:05 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 20:56:16 -0700 2008 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.

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The character Irial, the Dark King, made me think abo...more...]]> 2 0 false true Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 21 22:54:09 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 22:55:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 23:41:55 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 23:46:56 -0700 2009
I enjoyed Marr's first book, Wicked Lovely and thought the continuation of the theme of faeries within the same group of characters to be a great plot. The focus on one of Aislinn's(MC of Wicked Love...more...]]>