Waiting on Wednesday: Carnival of Souls by Melissa Marr

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Release Date: September 4, 2012

Blurb from Goodreads: "In a city of daimons, the Carnival of Souls hosts a deadly competition. Once in a generation, every citizen can fight to join the ruling elite. Without the competition, Aya and Kaleb would both face bleak futures—if for different reasons. For each of them, fighting to the death is the only way to try to live.

In our own world, Mallory knows that her father—and every other witch—fled the daimons’ city long ago. She trains to be lethal because it’s only a matter of time until the daimons catch up with them.

While Mallory possesses little knowledge of The City, every inhabitant of The City knows of her. There are plans there for Mallory, and soon she, too, will be drawn into the decadence that is the Carnival of Souls."

What are you waiting for?

Review: Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr

Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr

• Pub. Date: April 2008
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publisher
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 325
• Series: Wicked Lovely #2

http://www.melissa-marr.com/

"To 17-year-old Leslie, the tattoo is a thing of indescribable beauty, a captivating mark that she must make her own. But this subtle web of eyes and wings brings with it a transformation that no sweet young girl would ever imagine or welcome. Like its predecessor, this stand-alone sequel to Wicked Lovely plunges its youthful heroine into a faery world of almost constant peril. A tantalizing urban fantasy that won't let go.""

First Sentence: Irial watched the girl stroll up the street : she was a bundle of terror and fury.


Review: I actually liked Ink Exchange better than Wicked Lovely. This book was so much darker than the first one and mainly concentrated on the dark court and the relationships between Irial, Leslie and Niall. In which I found the three of them combined to be way more interesting than Keenan and Aislinn.

It did slightly annoy me when I found out that the second book in the series was not about the main characters but the story line  made up for it and the well fleshed out characters.
The main characters in the series - Keenan and Aislinn were "just around" in Ink Exchange. And even than Keenan got on my last nerves.

As far as the ending it was truly  bittersweet. I felt sorry for Niall and Irial as well.

Overall this was a great read, much darker and interesting than the first in the series in my opinion.

Review: Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

• Pub. Date: June 2007
• Publisher:Harper Collins Publishers
• Format: Hardcover 336pp
• Series:Wicked Lovely #1

http://www.melissa-marr.com/

"All teenagers have problems, but few of them can match those of Aislinn, who has the power to see faeries. Quite understandably, she wishes that she could share her friends' obliviousness and tries hard to avoid these invisible intruders. But one faery in particular refuses to leave her alone. Keenan the Summer King is convinced beyond all reasoning that Aislinn is the queen he has been seeking for nine centuries. What's a 21st-century girl to do when she's stalked by a suitor nobody else can see? ""

First Sentence: "The Summer King knelt before her. "Is this what you freely choose, to risk winter's chill?"

It's funny every time I think of faeries I think of Tinkerbell, which is why I admire Melissa Marr for keeping much of the folklore that really surrounds faeries true in her novel. I personally loved that at the beginning of every chapter there was a quote taken from random works about the fae.

The characters were interesting, they kept my attention but besides Donia I didn't really feel there was much character growth through the novel, everyone just stayed the same. I also wasn't feeling the whole Seth and Aislinn pair. I just didn't feel the connection between the two. Not to mention I didn't understand how Seth especially with the way his character was described could be so calm in every single situation. Some raw emotion would have been nice.

As for Keenan, I don't really have much to say about him. I understood his frustration and desperation but I did not care for the whole stalker vibe he was giving off to Aislinn. Seriously, stalkers are not sexy...it's creepy.

Overall I did like but not love Wicked Lovely. I received the first three installments in the series for free through Swap so I will continue the series, and see if the characters have more development. Although it will be interesting to see since the next book is about Leslie, Aislinn's friend.

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