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The second installment in Melissa Marr’s #1 New York Times bestselling Wicked Lovely series brings readers back to the land of faerie and delivers another stunning, high-stakes romance.

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.

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.

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. . .

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“This dark fantasy about survival and transformation is as mesmerizing as its urban faery subjects.”

About the Author

Melissa Marr is the author of the New York Times bestseller Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange. She has a collection of weaknesses that includes tide pools, folklore, deserts, tattoos, and new experiences.

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Starred Review. Grade 9 Up—This urban fairy tale, a sequel to Wicked Lovely (HarperTeen, 2007), is impossible to put down. Leslie lives with a father who has given up on life, a drug-abusing brother who allowed his dealer to rape Leslie in lieu of payment, and a burning desire to banish pain and fear from her life. Unable to confide in her best friend, Aislinn, she devotes herself to working to pay the family bills and to get the tattoo she believes will help her reclaim her body. What she doesn't know is that the art she has selected will bind her to Irial, the king of the Dark Court of Fairy. He removes her emotions like fear, panic, or anger, and uses them to nourish the fairies of his court. What Irial doesn't expect is his growing love for Leslie and her desire to make her own choices. In Leslie, Marr has created a damaged, wounded character who still comes across as being incredibly strong. Irial needs to care for his court, knowing them too weak to win a war, but his feelings for Leslie make him unwilling to do what needs to be done. The lesser characters are also well drawn: Rabbit the tattoo artist, his father, Gabriel, and also Aislinn, Keenan, and Seth from Wicked Lovely. While reading that book first would give more shades to some of the characters, it isn't necessary to appreciate the intricate world that Marr creates.—Lisa Prolman, Greenfield Public Library, MA
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Newcomers and returning readers alike will devour this companion novel to Marr's ragingly popular Wicked Lovely (2007). The new peace between the Summer King and the Winter Queen isn’t good for everyone: those of the Dark Court, who feed on faeries’ destructive emotions, are dangerously weakened. Irial, King of the Dark Court, needs a solution, and he finds one in the Summer Queen’s mortal friend Leslie. Tormented by memories of abuse, Leslie wants nothing more than to reclaim her body by getting a tattoo, but the enchanted design she selects provides Irial with a direct link to mortals’ emotions. The tattoo binds Leslie and Irial together even as a third faerie works to prevent their destructive yet seductive connection. All of Marr’s characters are complex, defying easy description and evoking sympathy and horror in equal measures, and all cast a thrall that will leave readers willing to forgive plotting that can be difficult to follow. This dark fantasy about survival and transformation is as mesmerizing as its urban faery subjects. Grades 10-12. --Krista Hutley --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0020Q3FJ0
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins; Reprint edition (March 25, 2009)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 25, 2009
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Melissa Marr is a former university literature instructor who writes fiction for adults, teens, and children. Her books have been translated into twenty-eight languages and been bestsellers internationally as well as domestically (NY Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal).

Accolades include YALSA Popular Paperbacks, IRA Notable Book Pick, Book Sense Pick, Good Morning America Summer Pick for Teens, Scottish Book Trust, Red Maple finalist (in both Ontario and Manitoba), and Goodreads Good Choice Award (Horror), RWA RITA award (YA). She is best known for the Wicked Lovely series for teens, the Graveminder for adults, and her debut picturebook Bunny Roo, I Love You. She currently lives with her family in Arizona.

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3.5 stars for a more compelling story than the first

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2017

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This one has a little more teeth, frankly, I thought it was just a better story, with a better cast. I liked Leslie as well as Niall and especially Irial. I found him the most interesting. I liked the way he was with her and Niall, as well as Gabriel. You could tell he cared about these people as well as his court. He may not be a good person but he was true to himself in all things. I especially loved the ending, for each of the characters it felt right. Maybe hope for a continuation at some point for each of them. The only thing I didn't care for was Aislinn, I didn't understand why she wouldn't warn her friend or why she didn't take action after the fact. The friendship itself felt fake. I also thought Keenan's complete aboutface from being the nice guy was a bit jarring, unless the author plans on a more complex character with hidden depths. Although I have to say, I just didn't get that vibe from the first book. He seemed kind of one dimensional to me and I wasn't so impressed... even less impressed with him in this book.

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Faeries like you haven't seen before

Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2015

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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, designed to allow him to filter the unpleasant emotions that feed his court through her into him and his people.

As Leslie finds her vision changing and her feelings shifting in unpredictable ways, Niall, a faerie of the Summer Court who has always admired her, steps in, hoping to help her and keep Irial away. He has his own tangled feelings about Irial, whom he once counted as a friend. But as Leslie sinks further under Irial's thrall, enjoying the escape from the hurt and fear she'd been living with, only she can decide when to pull away--or whether she would rather stay with him, after all.

INK EXCHANGE is a darkly imaginative novel set in the same world as Marr's first novel, WICKED LOVELY. Readers will enjoy exploring the lives of some of that novel's minor characters and seeing more of the shadowy side of the faerie courts. They may find Leslie, Niall, and Irial less engaging than the spirited and perhaps more sympathetic narrators of WICKED LOVELY, but the trio still make for a fascinating "love" triangle as each deals with conflicting emotions and tries to decide what is right both for him or herself and for those who are counting on them.

The imagery is striking and evocative, and the politics of the different faerie courts is intriguing to explore. A great book for dark fantasy fans

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Jane

2 ½ stars. It’s an interesting world, but the story was not as good as the first book.

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2015

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This is the second book in the Wicked Lovely series. The main characters are not together at the end, so it’s not a “romance.” The ending was complete, not a cliffhanger. But I would have preferred characters being together.

This story is about the dark court. Dark court faeries terrorize and kill humans. None of that is shown. It’s not that I want a lot of gory detail, but that part was vaguely referred to. I was frustrated because I wanted to know what the faeries did to humans. There is also addiction and reference to rape.

I read some reviews for the sequels. Book 3 has low reviews. Books 4 and 5 sound better, but I've lost interest in the series after this one.

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Narrative mode: 3rd person. Story length: 325 pages. Swearing language: mild. Sexual content: none, other than a reference to a past rape with no details shown. Setting: unknown time probably current day in fictional town Huntsdale, Pennsylvania. Copyright: 2008. Genre: fantasy fiction, young adult.

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Shelby Miller

Felt like a novella, or a subplot

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2010

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"Ink Exchange" is the continuing story of the world created in "Wicked Lovely". It's not purely a sequel, and can stand on its own, but parts of it will make more sense if you've already read "Wicked Lovely".

Leslie comes from a broken home. Really, really broken. Her mother is dead, her father is numbing himself by gambling and is rarely home, and her brother is a minor sort of drug dealer. Not the powerful kind, the kind that always gets himself into trouble. When we meet Leslie, she's trying to piece herself back together after her brother allowed his "friends" to gang rape her to get himself out of trouble. Now she wants a tattoo. Not just any tattoo, though. She wants one that will help her reclaim her body as her own.

Irial is the king of the faery Dark Court. The Dark Court which feeds on the darker emotions of the other fae -- terror, lust, greed, etc. This wasn't such a problem when the former, evil Winter Queen was alive. But now there's a new Winter Queen and a tentative peace in the faery world. Irial's people are starving. So what's a king to do? He comes up with a way to feed them. Through a tattoo on a mortal made with his own shadowy blood, Irial can feed off of the mortal's feelings, and in turn feed his court. The only problem is, he needs to find a willing, hurting mortal...

In spite of the interesting-sounding plot, the book was rather slow, and felt more like it should have been a subplot in another novel, rather than have a novel of it's own. The book is more than halfway over before Leslie gets the tattoo, and after that, still not much happens. It wraps up a bit too quickly in the end, and takes a long time getting there. Leslie was a rather one-dimensional character, not someone you'd want to spend a lot of time with, and Irial was only a bit better. A strange subplot in which Niall (a faery of the Summer Court) inexplicably falls in love with Leslie isn't used to any great advantage. Nor is another subplot in which the the once-mortal Summer Queen, Aisleen, agonizes over Leslie's fate, without taking any steps one way or another. It's a book with a lot of potential, but that's about it.

Needless to say, the book's pretty dark (considerably darker than "Wicked Lovely"), especially for the under-13 set, though none of it's very graphic.

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daisyduck1976

Much darker than Wicked Lovely

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 8, 2010

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This is the follow up book after Wicked Lovely and it's quite different. It has a much darker tone than the first book but it is just as compelling. It centres on Aislinn's friend Leslie and the Dark Court, so we don't see very much progression in the story of Aislinn, Seth and Keegan, although they do feature in Leslie's story regularly.

Leslie is troubled, afraid that her life and feelings are not her own. Without going into too much detail, Marr makes it quite clear than Leslie's homelife is frankly horrific and that she has suffered abuse. Small details emerge about this as the book goes on, but it is cleverly written. Leslie is determined for her abuse not to be the main marker in her life. She is trying to find her way, reclaim control over herself, not to be a victim. So she doesn't dwell on what happened for the reader to hear. She alludes to it more by explaining how it makes her feel, how she shuts those feelings out. I have been surprised by other reviewers complaints that this aspect of the story was not properly dealt with. Written any other way, it would have been dwelling too much on her past pain rather than her future and how she was going to move forward.

Leslie is resolved to get a tattoo, something to mark her body as her own, but she keeps looking at Rabbit's designs and she just can't see something that draws her in. Eventually she sees something in Rabbit's design book that he doesn't normally show to people. She knows immediately that she must have it. It calls to her. Obtaining the tattoo begins Leslie's connection to Irial, the king of the Dark Fey. She is strongly drawn to both him and Keegan's advisor in the Summer Court, Niall. What connects the three of them and where will it lead? What are Aislinn and Keegan trying to hide from her/protect her from?

The story of what happens to Leslie once the tattoo is completed is the most compelling part of the book. I found that I kept changing my mind as to where I wanted the story to go. Marr writes the characters from an unbiased point of view, so I never felt that I was supposed to favour one character over another or to want one outcome more than another. I just kept swaying between all the options. In actual fact, none of the things that I thought would draw the book to a close, actually happened. I was surprised and very pleased by the outcome. It was true to Leslie's original goal- to reclaim her life and to move on stronger and more in control.

I would recommend that you read it, if you enjoyed the first book. Be prepared for the change in tone and the reduced roles of previously main characters. You will be compensated by the characters of Leslie, Irial, Gabriel and Niall coming much more to the fore. They are much more complex than they appear at first. That's one of the things that makes the book so interesting.

Claire Mill

2.5 Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 1, 2009

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Ink Exchange is the sequel to Wicked Lovely, but following different characters. Leslie is one of Aislinn's (the girl from Wicked Lovely) closest friends, and the book follows her fight to regain control after a horrible and terrifying event. She decides that the way to do that is to get a tattoo. But unknown to her, the tattoo she chooses is that of the faerie king of the Dark Court, Irial.

With the tattoo comes unexpected changes for Leslie. Her sight changes, the emotions she feels and the way she reacts. The pain, hurt and fear that had been consuming her, disappears. But at what cost?

The more she changes, the more Niall, advisor to the Summer King and Queen Keenan and Aislinn, wants to help her. Having escaped the Dark Court himself many years ago, he's determined not to let them have Leslie. But in the end, can he himself escape their clutches again?

Wicked Lovely was a really good read, but unfortunately this does not live up to it. The idea behind the story, surviving - not allowing someone else to rule your life, is a good one, but it doesn't work here. The writing tended to ramble on and got confusing at times. You could see what the end was going to be long before you got there, and when you did, it was over quickly. It didn't help that half of the book was from Irial's perspective. As the 'bad guy' I had no sympathy for him or his motives. I didn't like his character and even found him dull at times.

On the good side, we saw some of Keenan's true nature and we got a better look at Niall, easily the most interesting, though least seen, character in the book. I intend to read the third book in the series, Fragile Eternity, because it focuses on different characters. But I don't feel this book really added anything to the series. Long winded, slow and dull at times it didn't do it's predecessor any justice. Hoping for more from the next one.

Ms. J. Clarke

Dark and delightful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 23, 2011

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I wasn't sure how I'd get on with this after enjoying Wicked Lovely so much, mainly because it had new lead
characters and I'd really fallen for Ash and Seth in the first book. However, melisaa Marr creates
wonderful characters and Lesley is another of these. We do have appearences from Ash and Seth and others from
the first book. We get to know alot more about Niall and meet some other rulers of other fairie courts too.
This book I found alot darker and definately not one for younger audiences. It was very enjoyable and showed us
more of the world that Melissa Marr has created and left me eagerly awaiting more. I have now ordered the 3rd book
which it seems takes us back to Ash again....... I can't wait.

Morrigan

Terror and Temptation

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 25, 2016

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It's nice to see the story from another character's perspective and it not being a novel that switched POV every chapter. Lesley's story shows how even best friends can hide terrible secrets if they're too scared to ask for help. I wish nobody could relate to her story, but the character handles things very well and proves that she is a strong, independant woman.

layla

Great follow up to Wicked Lovely.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 25, 2013

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I felt the story line dealt with real issues in a delicate and thoughtful way and the way these were mixed with the fairy tale ideas was fantastic. I got a bit lost in parts of the book but felt the overall story was great. I would have loved for Niall to have had the love he wanted in the end though!