Ink exchange

Melissa Marr writes dark. Drugs, suicide, murder, sex, lies, rape, nothing is hidden in the Wicked Lovely books.

At first I was disappointed to find that Aislinn, Seth, Keenan & Donia weren't the main characters. In fact, we never even see Donia here. She's just mentioned off-page! But as I got to know Leslie it was okay. Just like Aislinn, Leslie is a rich and powerful character. She's strong without denying her fears & weaknesses. She's no idiot, she's proud and determined to make things better for herself by herself.

She continuously surprised me with her actions. She's not some namby-pamby female lead. She was great.

Melissa Marr writes the dark fae well. It's madness and addiction and fear, but she writes it drenched in reality. It reminds me a little of Holly Blacks fae except where Marr is trying to portray a darker side to teenage life, Black just writes the dark to shock the reader, to be faux-edgy.

Marr ends Ink Exchange with a bit of a cliff hanger. Kind of like what she did with Wicked Lovely. Things were resolved, in a sense, but we were looking forward to the aftermath. I wonder if she'll deliver that in the next book.