vshwa.blogg.se - The wicked lovely series

Author Appeal: Several characters have similar tastes in music and fashion to Melissa Marr, not to mention the whole tattoo thing in Ink Exchange.

Author Catchphrase: "There are always choices," which doubles as An Aesop, is spoken by a different character every book, sometimes more than once.).

Unusual for this trope, and likely due to Fair Folk Blue-and-Orange Morality, this is a good thing, or at least works for the solitaries.

Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The solitary fey work on "rule of might and will", which basically amounts to this.

Although faeries HAVE been said to possess the gift of tongues. Mind you, it would be hard to write all dialogue in Gaelic, especially considering most readers wouldn't understand it, so this was probably a common-sense move on Melissa's part.

Aliens Speaking English: Why Sorcha, who has been around literally forever, speaks perfect - if overly formal - modern English despite having never even been to the human world is the worst example, but it applies to several faeries.

Ink Exchange, in particular, has the characters (especially Irial) learn that "sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter." Leslie practically has to spell this out as Irial's obsession with her leads to her losing her ability to feel negative emotions, forcing the two apart.

The series overall swears by the phrase "There are always choices," which gets repeated in every book as the characters challenge the strict rules of the fey courts and forge their own paths.Achilles' Heel: Iron is poisonous to fey except for monarchs and a select few others like Bananach.And it's not too long before Aislinn is pulled into a world of dark magic, political intrigue, and romance. The one who'll save the fae world from the oppressive rule of the Winter Court.

Keenan, the young king of the Summer Court, thinks she might be his prophesied Summer Queen. But that becomes very difficult when one very powerful faerie starts following her. All her life she's been terrified of them, trying to hide her gift to avoid attracting their attention. It consists of a book of the same name (2007), Ink Exchange (2008), Fragile Eternity (2009), Radiant Shadows (2010), Darkest Mercy (2011) and later Faery Tales & Nightmares (2012), a compilation of short stories set in the Wicked Lovely universe among others and Desert Tales (2013), a companion novel about a former Winter Girl.Īislinn is an ordinary human girl - or she would be, if it weren't for the fact she can see faeries. Wicked Lovely is a YA urban fantasy series by Melissa Marr. Rule #1: Don't ever attract faeries' attention.