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Ink Exchange | 
 enlarge | Author: Melissa Marr
Publisher: HarperCollins
Category: Book
List Price: $16.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 7540
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 006121468X
EAN: 9780061214684
ASIN: 006121468X
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Product Description
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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 Darky Nuanced October 8, 2008
Ink Exchange is darker, more complex, and more nuanced than Wicked Lovely. Marr ups the ante in this beautiful tale of love, addiction and choice. It's a companion novel rather than a sequel, focusing on three characters briefly introduced in Wicked Lovely (Leslie, Irial, and Niall). The plot has everything to do with the previous book, specifically it deals with the repercussions within the Dark Court of the cease fire between the Summer and Winter Courts. Just as in Wicked Lovely the intersection of worlds (faerie and human) revolves around relationships between a human girl and faerie male, sacrifice, survival, and terrible necessity.
The novel remains as intense and tightly wound as the previous book. Marr has the marvelous ability to wind delicious threads of tension and inevitability into her novels despite all of the choices available. That's the thing that I love most about her books so far. The choices you want to make are never the choices available. Characters still have to deal with those choices, the decisions that they do and do not make, as well as the fact that sometimes they have no control over events except in the ways that they choose to respond. They make mistakes, poor decisions and there are repercussions. No one is all good or all evil, everyone, EVERYONE is a delicious shade of grey. Whether you like it or not, everything is about choice.
Ink Exchange is slightly divorced from the "human" reality in comparison to Wicked Lovely. Where Marr builds a great sense of space and location, here she re-treads old territory, adding a few new locations that introduce the decadence of the Dark Court. She continues to have a deft hand at showing and not telling, weaving the tension and teasing the detail of plot out of the story itself without falling back on straight exposition. A great sense of dialogue, character voice, and descriptive prose meld together into a beautifully fluid, tense and tragic narrative.
It's a more adult novel. Darker, grittier, more sexual, more violent and because we're dealing with the Dark Court it makes sense and is appropriate for the tone of the book. Some of the characterizations are a little off from the first book. Aislinn, who makes a very limited appearance, reads very differently in terms of age and personality. Some of that can be hand waved by the events that ended Wicked Lovely and the changes that Aislinn underwent, but it's jarring to read her in Ink Exchange. The ending is perfectly sad and bittersweet. Ink Exchange avoids the trite, pat close of Wicked Lovely and is all the better for giving us a sad, reflective ending that closes the book just as it should.
 Much better than Wicked Lovely September 26, 2008
I enjoyed Wicked Lovely, but it wasn't the best book I have ever read.
While I loved Seth and Aislynn, I had a hard time liking Keenan. He was kind of flat as was the story in my opinion. However, I chose to give Ink Exchange a chance, and I am so glad that I did.
I loved this story and the ending was absolutely perfect. My heart went out to all of the characters. Somehow, not only does Marr allow you to feel sympathy towards Irial, she also allows you to fall in love with him. Who knew? I found myself torn between two men, or should I say faeries.
So, if you enjoyed Wicked Lovely, you should definitely read Ink Exchange and even if you didn't, give it a try. It's delicious.
 scary for many reasons, good and bad September 4, 2008
This author is a very good writer, her ideas are wonderful, and the book is very developed. However, if you are looking for a happy love story, this is not the book for you.
Craving for More September 4, 2008
I read this title in less than a day, I wouldn't move from my bed until I finished! The characters are different and more believable than anything you'd find in Twilight. Melissa Marr has a fresh and appetizing way to introducing and keeping us in the world she has created. It's dark and forbidden and keeps me thinking about the book long after I've finished.
Imaginative but dissappointing September 2, 2008
Okay, I really loved Wicked Lovely, so I was looking forward to Ink Exchange. The writing was fine, and I loved the ideas behind the story, but I just didn't love the story. It's just a matter of personal taste, but I just didn't like it much.
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