By Melissa Marr
Book: Wicked Lovely #
Publisher: HarperTeen
Pub Date: April 24 2008
Genre: Fae, Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult
Format: Paperback
Source: Bought
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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.
My Review: Leslie has a rough home life, her mother left and her dad is usually drunk and rarely comes home. Her brother is high all the time on drugs and brings dangerous people around the house. Leslie learned that the hard way and has the scars to prove it. Leslie loves the time she isn’t at home. Niall is Keenan’s, the Summer King’s, right hand. He guards Leslie and feels his desire for her growing each time he sees her. He doesn’t realize she feels the same way about him. If he knew, it would only make it harder on him to not be able to have contact with her. Irial has developed a way to feed through a human. His blood and the tears from the Dark Court Faeries are mixed with ink used to tattoo the person he’ll use to feed. Leslie has decided getting a tattoo is a way she can reclaim some control over her life and decides on the symbol that will link her to Irial and eventually lead to her death.
My Rating:
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