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Type of bind: Hardcover
EAN num: 9780061214684
ISBN number: 006121468X
Label: HarperTeen
Manufacturer: HarperTeen
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: May 01, 2008
Publishing house: HarperTeen
Age index: Young Adult
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Sale Popularity Level: 12795
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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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Love the book. It was in perfect condition. It even had that new book crack when you very first open a brand new book. Thanks very much !
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Ink Exchange wasn't quite as good as Wicked Lovely, but it was still highly readable and addictive. I think the thing lacking in the second book was deep character connection. I felt like I knew the characters in the very first book better than the ones in the second book which isn't a huge problem, but I think that if anything could be improved in Ink Exchange, that would be the one small thing I would fix. Other than that, the rest of the aspects of the story were on par with the very first book and I finished it satisfied. In Wicked Lovely, some of the details of the other faery courts were skimmed over and this book gave us an opportunity to look at the dark faery court from a different view point; the view of someone who has no idea what she is getting herself into. I think the best part about the book, for me, was how all of the tattooing tied in. I've never thought about getting a tattoo myself, but after reading about the whole art and history of it, I think I have a deeper understanding of what drives people to permanently mark their bodies. I would never go through with it as I have a very low pain thresh hold, but I like the idea of claiming your body as your own, as Leslie did. I think Melissa Marr put a lot of effort in to that part of the book and it definitely paid off. I was a teensy bit disappointed by the ending of the book, but I think the contrast of the endings between Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange was needed and overall, the end fit the book; even if I didn't particularly like how things were tied up. I am looking forward to a possible third book because there is one (maybe two) faery court(s) that haven't been told about yet, and I think the last one, Sorcha's court, should be the most interesting of all. Let's cross our fingers that a third book is one its way!
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I didn't find anything particularly interesting about this book. I've been an avid reader my whole life, and seen both sides of the spectrum.
Although I have read some pretty amazing books recently, this is definitely not one of them. There really doesn't seem to be much imagination invested in this book so you may want to save your money for a different author entirely.
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Marr seems to fall into the same trap as she did with Wicked Lovely in ths book: she starts off with an amazing premise that starts a reader salivating, but somehow the book never really lives up to it. While I still enjoyed both books, INK EXCHANGE seemed to take Marr's tendancy to never live up to her premises to a new level. It's strange, because the book was good, it was an entertaining read, but it never reached my expectations. I've been thinking about why, and I've finally come up with a few ideas.
First off, I do love Marr's image of faerie courts as street gangs. It's definitely a fun contrast than what we'd expect from other more traditional novels. Yet Marr never seems to bring her magical gangs to life. We never get a full, detailed image of their world and have to glean anything we can from offhand remarks (like the constant half-allusions to the High Court). In fact, though Marr offers beautiful (and kind of purple) physical descriptions of her fey, they're too often not in a way that the reader can actually picture what they look or sound like (a voice being "as refreshing as a sip of the moon". Really?). But it's not just the fey themselves that feel vague; so do their struggles and their very relationships with other courts. Throughout the book, Marr talks about the idea of there being discord between the courts, but barely explains it and never goes beyond the surface. Everything about them just feels so very vague and unfinished. This is exactly how Keenan's predicament in Wicked Lovely came across. His father was mentioned, something about Keenan's power being reduced by his mother, but we never got a decent explanation as to why and how and where and when this all happened. A little detail goes a long way. A lot of detail goes longer.
The histories of her fey, their relatinships etc. aren't just throw away tidbits of information. Marr could have used the intrigue and complexities of her courts to make the story even better. I mean, she mentions the threat of war brewing in the near future, of warmongers trying to undermine the authority of their own royals, of pacts and emnities between courts. But in the end, it ends up being nothing more than talk. Even the encounters between the top officials of the Summer and Dark Courts never really get beyond gnashing teeth, threatening and magical manifestations of anger.
Instead of using these conflicts and allowing them to progress further to make the stakes higher and the story bigger and more complex, Marr simply mentions these conflicts in passing and instead focuses on the love triangle between Niall, Leslie and Irial. This is a huge mistake for a number of reasons. First, the love triangle felt forced. We're only told that Niall loves Leslie with all his heart from the get go, but we never really get a feel for why - except maybe because he's intrigued by her newly found status as a broken-bird, which she gained after being raped before the story started. His love for Leslie becomes even more confusing upon learning about Leslie herself. As a heroine, she doesn't feel like she has a fleshed out personality. The rape seems to be the only thing of note in her character. Of course, when one goes through such a terrible experience, that tends to take over much of who they are, but there'll still be shreds of that old individual left inside, struggling to reclaim dominance, and that's what makes a fictional character of that sort so compelling. The rape shouldn't have stopped Leslie from feeling like a real, three-dimensional character, but it did. If I can't feel anything for Leslie, how can I understand another character feeling for her so deeply and so romantically? In my opinion, love in fiction is only successful if it feels organic and natural. Leslie and Niall may have been sexy together, but organic and natural, they were not.
But on top of that, Niall's love for Leslie didn't really add anything to the story. As a character himself, he was quite compelling, but all that didn't matter to Leslie's tale or the plot in the long run. By the time it was Irial's time to have his turn, Niall was all but useless. Even the heroic act he performed for Leslie by the end of the book could easily have been performed by Aislinn and Donia, which actually would have been a massively better choice; it would have allowed Aislinn to TRULY live up to her title as Leslie's friend and almost make up for her lack of action throughout the book. Plus, it would have shown Donia who was sorely missed in this sequel. Niall's journey felt so detached that I can only assume the only purpose for showing his journey was to set up the epilogue, which I'm assuming Marr aims to explore in later books. Symbolically and plotwise, Leslie and Irial's twisted relationship was far more important. Marr should have spent more time developing and making the most of the heroine's ties to the Dark King.
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This isn't a sequel to a series in the traditional sense. While you see Keenan and Aislinn the focus of this novel has nothing to do with them but instead Aislinn's friend Leslie. While I very much enjoyed Leslie's story and her involvement and progression of Aislinn's life - in many ways I wanted to know more about Keenan and Aislinn. I was not ready to move on. Marr creates books that while concluding leave you wanting, grasping for more of what is going on in their life. So for me - having a periphery watch on Keenan and Aislinn's life wasn't enough.
Independent of her other book, I found this one interesting enough. Again she lets you meet and attach yourselves to characters. She gives you a resolution - maybe not the one you were expecting - and leaves you wanting more. In no way to do you feel cheated by the ending, but this world she has created is so different from anything else you have seen you want to get a larger picture into it.
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