Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr

The author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Wicked Lovely" continues her tales of Faery in a dark, ravishing story of temptation and consequences, and of heroism when least expected.

Couldn't finish this book. I didn't care for Wicked Lovely much, but wanted to give Marr a second chance. Didn't even make it past the first half of this book. It's too slow and the writing is too choppy for me.

In the first book, we never really get a good view of Leslie. Everything is set around Aislinn, and Leslie is on the edge of the spotlight. But now, we find out her life is just as complicated as Aislinn's, though minus the faeries...until now. I've always had the desire to get a tattoo, and I like the way this book centers around them. And lets not forget Niall, with a much darker past then you might've guessed.
Leslie has a hurtful past, and she needs a change. That change, to her, means getting a tattoo, but the one that she chooses, changes more then her skin. It changes her entire life. It introduces to her the Dark Court, the side of Faerie that most mortals are better off never seeing. And for Niall, the faerie always at her best friends side(and always at her side, if only she knew), this brings up a part of his past that he had spent the last couple centuries trying to forget.

I wish Leslie would've ended up with Irial, I really liked him..

The second book in Marr's faery stories deals mostly with emotional pain and addiction in a metaphorical, though slightly heavy-handed manner. Were I still an emotionally overwrought 17-year-old, this would speak volumes to me but I'm not so my reaction to most of the story was “Why are teen-aged girls so appealing to 900-year-old faeries?”