Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr

Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

by Melissa Marr

Mortal affections and faery rivalries continue to collide in the town of Huntsdale, as New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr takes urban fantasy to new heights.

After suffering a terrible trauma at the hands of her brother's dealer friends, Leslie becomes obsessed with the idea of getting a tattoo – it's the one thing that will allow her to reclaim her body, renew her self-confidence. And when Rabbit, her local tattoo artist, shows her a secret book of his own designs, she finds one of them irresistible.

Soon, her back is adorned with a pair of mysterious eyes, framed by black wings. Leslie feels good – more than good. Nothing bad can touch her. But what she doesn't know is that her new tattoo binds her tightly to the faery whose symbol she chose: Irial, the exquisitely dangerous king of the Dark Court…

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3 of 5 stars

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The story of a girl who tries to reclaim herself by getting a tattoo and learns what it really means to choose and to recognize the consequences of those decisions is both interestingly metaphoric and honestly straight forward.

The thing I like about this book is that is isn't graphic. There are bad things in this story; horrible things that characters do and have done to them. But [a:Melissa Marr|175855|Melissa Marr|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1192302741p2/175855.jpg] knows that these things are awful enough simply by existing and doesn't need to describe them in lurid detail. I appreciate that.

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