Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

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Wicked Lovely
by Melissa Marr
(Audio)

I picked up this book, hoping very much that it would clarify all my questions about fairies that I had when reading Ink Exchange: what were these fairy courts about? Why was this band of tattoo artists so cruel all of a sudden? Why did this kid live in a train car with no parents? Unfortunately, I didn't really get an answer to ANY of these.

Okay, so I did learn about the Summer and Winter Courts. But the other courts and the characters who change allegiances in the second book? So didn't help me.

Aislinn has grown up being able to see invisible faeries. Her grandmother has three rules: Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries. Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries. Rule #1: Don't ever attract their attention.

Throughout the book, Aislinn is forced to break them all. It's not really her fault that the Summer King falls for her and thinks she's the queen that will break the spell his MOTHER has cast on him. Complications arise when she realizes she IS the queen... but doesn't actually want to be with the kind.

It's an interesting world, politically and magically. The faeries were definitely not cute Tinkerbell types! I liked the characters... but I had so many questions I wanted answers to about the second book and this book didn't really answer any of them. I was even more question-filled coming out of it! The books are set in the same world and several characters are in both, but there isn't a ton of overlap.

It seems that BookCrossing.com is telling me there's another in the series. I don't know whether to give it a go or not!