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j_elphaba's review against another edition
3.0
Depois de no primeiro livro da série Wicked lovely nos ter sido dada a conhecer a deslumbrante Corte de Verão, agora é a Corte das Trevas quem domina as páginas descritas por Melissa Marr. Uma autora que idolatra e descreve todo o género de fadas, desde as que mais que gostamos às que simplesmente repudiamos, e insere o leitor nas suas intrigantes cortes como se do mundo real se trata-se.
Este é um livro onde a fantasia reina, onde os sonhos e pesadelos misturam o real e a ficção, com um lado negro e cruel, conseguindo ser apaixonante para os fãs deste estilo literário.
Opinião completa: http://historiasdeelphaba.blogspot.com/2011/08/wicked-lovely-tatuagem-de-melissa-marr.html
Este é um livro onde a fantasia reina, onde os sonhos e pesadelos misturam o real e a ficção, com um lado negro e cruel, conseguindo ser apaixonante para os fãs deste estilo literário.
Opinião completa: http://historiasdeelphaba.blogspot.com/2011/08/wicked-lovely-tatuagem-de-melissa-marr.html
mezzahliah's review
4.0
The writing had me jumping all over the place a bit but the ending oh damn! Was not expecting any of those twists! Loved this take of power and magic.
chloejayne98's review
2.0
Was OK. since i never read the first of the series i didn't understand it fully! but it wasn't that good anyway, although i did find myself rereading it:)
janetrose's review
4.0
Enjoyable and realistic, Ink Exchange is a story about a damaged girl Leslie who decides to get a tattoo and the one she chooses ties her fate to a king of the Dark Court. I wont get too much into it but I did enjoy this one a bit more than the first book Wicked Lovely.
The flaw I find in Melissa Marr's writing is that the start and the middle are well written; characters are compelling, the story is interesting and well done but as soon as the climax hits it seems she rushes the end.
The flaw I find in Melissa Marr's writing is that the start and the middle are well written; characters are compelling, the story is interesting and well done but as soon as the climax hits it seems she rushes the end.
kristid's review
4.0
Ink Exchange is the companion novel to Wicked Lovely, which basically means that it is not the sequel to Wicked Lovely, but is still set in the same world and has many of the same characters as Wicked Lovely.
Personally, I like Ink Exchange better than I did Wicked Lovely. To be fair, WL was one of the first fae novels that I’d read, along with the Holly Black series, so I was just getting to know about the glamours and the sight and all that fae lingo.
Ink Exchange is definitely the darker novel of the too, this one is basically about addiction. It revolves around one of Ash’s friends Leslie, Irial, the king of the Dark Court, and Niall, Keenan's adviser.
I love this world that Marr has created where faeries and mortals co-exist. She paints a beautiful world full of mayhem and chaos! And I love that she doesn’t give a happy fairy-tale ending, well the ending that I wanted to see anyway, and yet I find that it was very satisfying.
The characters in this novel are fantastic. You have the Dark Court, which obviously is supposed to be bad, but are they really? Every character is flawed, they have these wonderful qualities and yet they also have these bad qualities. It’s refreshing to be unable to label who’s good and who’s evil.
There was a lot more depth than I was expecting. My first impressions of Leslie from Wicked Lovely were extremely off. She is one of the most complex characters and it was totally unexpected. I really recommend this one for dark fantasy fans.
Personally, I like Ink Exchange better than I did Wicked Lovely. To be fair, WL was one of the first fae novels that I’d read, along with the Holly Black series, so I was just getting to know about the glamours and the sight and all that fae lingo.
Ink Exchange is definitely the darker novel of the too, this one is basically about addiction. It revolves around one of Ash’s friends Leslie, Irial, the king of the Dark Court, and Niall, Keenan's adviser.
I love this world that Marr has created where faeries and mortals co-exist. She paints a beautiful world full of mayhem and chaos! And I love that she doesn’t give a happy fairy-tale ending, well the ending that I wanted to see anyway, and yet I find that it was very satisfying.
The characters in this novel are fantastic. You have the Dark Court, which obviously is supposed to be bad, but are they really? Every character is flawed, they have these wonderful qualities and yet they also have these bad qualities. It’s refreshing to be unable to label who’s good and who’s evil.
There was a lot more depth than I was expecting. My first impressions of Leslie from Wicked Lovely were extremely off. She is one of the most complex characters and it was totally unexpected. I really recommend this one for dark fantasy fans.
lunaseassecondaccount's review against another edition
2.0
I first read [b:Wicked Lovely|305234|Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovely, #1)|Melissa Marr|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327814035s/305234.jpg|296240] five years ago, and I remember very little of it. I rated it five stars, though, and I still own a copy of it, so that's telling me I really enjoyed it. Given I went out and bought a copy of Ink Exchange at some point (probably shortly after I read the first book) means I must have really enjoyed it.
But I remember none of it.
So there's that.
Going back into this series so blind has no doubt effected my reading of it. As I went through the book, parts of it started coming back, but the biggest thing I kept picking up on is that this book is a lot darker than its predecessor. While Wicked Lovely did have an urban grunge feeling to it, I remember it being lighter. This book is very dark and rough.
What bothered me the most is that Leslie gets no happy ending. She was gang raped before the novel started, she lives in squalor with an absentee father and a drug-fueled brother who sold her to his dealer. She gets lured into the faerie world by no fault of her own. She finds a glimmer of hope when she gets a tattoo- something purely to make her happy- but winds up being chained to the king of the Dark Court. While it's rather hazy on whether she gets raped repeatedly by him, she is used, again and again, and apparently this is 'okay' because she's roofied the whole time... meanwhile, when she was gang raped, she was equally roofied.
In saying that, I do kind of want to keep reading this series... eventually. I'm pretty doped up with anesthesia at the moment that's wearing off, so rambling review is rambling.
But yeah.
Something.
But I remember none of it.
So there's that.
Going back into this series so blind has no doubt effected my reading of it. As I went through the book, parts of it started coming back, but the biggest thing I kept picking up on is that this book is a lot darker than its predecessor. While Wicked Lovely did have an urban grunge feeling to it, I remember it being lighter. This book is very dark and rough.
What bothered me the most is that Leslie gets no happy ending. She was gang raped before the novel started, she lives in squalor with an absentee father and a drug-fueled brother who sold her to his dealer. She gets lured into the faerie world by no fault of her own. She finds a glimmer of hope when she gets a tattoo- something purely to make her happy- but winds up being chained to the king of the Dark Court. While it's rather hazy on whether she gets raped repeatedly by him, she is used, again and again, and apparently this is 'okay' because she's roofied the whole time... meanwhile, when she was gang raped, she was equally roofied.
In saying that, I do kind of want to keep reading this series... eventually. I'm pretty doped up with anesthesia at the moment that's wearing off, so rambling review is rambling.
But yeah.
Something.
saidtheraina's review
3.0
TBCD
Continuation of the faery saga started in Marr's "Wicked Lovely." I couldn't tell if this would follow the storylines of WL, but it very much does, even though the perspective and primary players have changed. I definitely recommend reading WL first - having all that back knowledge is really helpful for understanding what's going on and the world of IE.
To be honest, for me it lacked the spark of WL. In WL, I loved the edge combined with the faery darkness. In IE, this is no longer new, and the author's added in a rather forced narrative about healing from abuse. Great intent, and it may reach the right kids, but for me it was contrived.
However, I'm not done with the series - I'll put the next on hold. So it wasn't that bad. :)
Continuation of the faery saga started in Marr's "Wicked Lovely." I couldn't tell if this would follow the storylines of WL, but it very much does, even though the perspective and primary players have changed. I definitely recommend reading WL first - having all that back knowledge is really helpful for understanding what's going on and the world of IE.
To be honest, for me it lacked the spark of WL. In WL, I loved the edge combined with the faery darkness. In IE, this is no longer new, and the author's added in a rather forced narrative about healing from abuse. Great intent, and it may reach the right kids, but for me it was contrived.
However, I'm not done with the series - I'll put the next on hold. So it wasn't that bad. :)
lammerman's review
2.0
I had higher expectations for this book, but it was a little dark for my taste.
http://lhubert3.blogspot.com/2009/01/ink-exchange.html
http://lhubert3.blogspot.com/2009/01/ink-exchange.html
mariefun's review
2.0
I was unimpressed with the first book but didn't hate it, so I decided to give the second one a try, and I wanted to see how things turned out after the events of the first. This book didn't give much of what I was hoping for, as it focuses on a new character. The characters from the first book are present, but their story is mostly on hold.
These books feel very confusing and unrelatable to me. At first I thought it was due to it being a fairy story, as they are not my favorite because of how you can never trust anything around you when fairies are in the mix. But I think my dislike of these books come from more than the subject matter. I don't have any real feel for who these characters are outside of their interaction with fairies. They don't feel like realistic people who go to school. The characters are under-developed. I especially don't like how the human main characters, both in this book and the previous, find themselves in situations where the consequences of their actions are very high but they are completely clueless that there are any stakes at all. This leads to the narration making a big deal out of seemingly ordinary events, and unfair consequences.
I think the premise of this book had some promise. I like the idea of a tattoo linking people together, but again, I don't like how clueless the main character was to what she was doing.
These books feel very confusing and unrelatable to me. At first I thought it was due to it being a fairy story, as they are not my favorite because of how you can never trust anything around you when fairies are in the mix. But I think my dislike of these books come from more than the subject matter. I don't have any real feel for who these characters are outside of their interaction with fairies. They don't feel like realistic people who go to school. The characters are under-developed. I especially don't like how the human main characters, both in this book and the previous, find themselves in situations where the consequences of their actions are very high but they are completely clueless that there are any stakes at all. This leads to the narration making a big deal out of seemingly ordinary events, and unfair consequences.
I think the premise of this book had some promise. I like the idea of a tattoo linking people together, but again, I don't like how clueless the main character was to what she was doing.