Review: Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely #2) by Melissa Marr

My Rating:  ✯✯✯✯✩
Genre: YA, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Faerie
Publication Date: April  24th 2008

Short Synopsis

Leslie has survived more than her fair share of personal horrors. She knows all about the selfishness and cruelty of men and knows what to avoid, especially what to avoid of her father and brother. Soon she'll be off to college and she'll be able to start a new life for herself and be her own person. For now, in an act of reclaiming her own body, she has become obsessed with the idea of getting a tattoo. Something that has meaning only to her. Turns out it could mean a whole lot more than she intended.

Review

The second book in the Wicked lovely series has been sitting on my shelf for ages. I just decided to pick it up and start reading as part of my fairy themed book binge. Forgetting how much I enjoyed the first one, the richness of the world created by Melissa Marr came back to me and I fell in love with the fairy courts all over again.
This is a seriously underrated series, especially where the theme of urban fairy stories is concerned. This book deals mostly with the Dark Court and Marr portrays them in a way thats reminiscent of underground movements or outlawed gangs. She plays with the idea that being labeled dark or light has nothing to do with being good or evil, that its all about perspective and who's side you're on.

With five books in the completed series, if you're looking for an urban fairy story to pick up easily and marathon/ binge on this one is for you.