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Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.

Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty—especially if they learn of her Sight—and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens.

Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries.

Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to answer.

Rule #1: Don't ever attract their attention.

But it's too late. Keenan is the Summer King who has sought his queen for nine centuries. Without her, summer itself will perish. He is determined that Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any cost—regardless of her plans or desires.

Suddenly none of the rules that have kept Aislinn safe are working anymore, and everything is on the line: her freedom; her best friend, Seth; her life; everything.

Faerie intrigue, mortal love, and the clash of ancient rules and modern expectations swirl together in Melissa Marr's stunning 21st century faery tale.

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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? A debut fantasy romance for the ages; superlative summer read.
Annette Curtis Klause
Melissa Marr adds elegantly to the sub-genre of Urban Faery with this enticing, well-researched fantasy for teens … The romantic scenes are delicious. The fantasy of being pursued by two young men is alluring in itself, but when one is a pierced and tattooed sexy outsider and the other is a blindingly beautiful King of Faery, how much better can it get? Halfway through the book, I knew which characters I wanted to end up together, and that made me read greedily on. Readers will beg for a sequel.
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Aislinn, a mortal teenager, has the gift, or perhaps curse, of being able to see faeries. She has always been able to see them, has been distracted by their presence, but has always done her best to ignore them and not let on that she sees them. When Aislinn begins to notice an increase in faeries, she is disconcerted. Her worries multiply when she discovers she is being trailed by two faeries in particular, who believe her to be their rightful queen. Unfortunately for Aislinn, she has no say in the matter. Though Aislinn desperately wishes to remain mortal and have the faeries leave her alone, she grows to understand that is not an option. If she truly is the Summer Queen, she will rule beside Keenan, the Summer King, and work to overthrow Beira, the Winter Queen and Keenan's mother. If she fails the test for Queen, Aislinn will become a Winter Girl, doomed to cold and fear until another girl comes along to take her place. Marr's story weaves between the mortal realm and the faerie world. Aislinn is aggressive, demanding, forthright, and modern, in spite of all of her fears and uncertainties. Her calm, in tense situations with the court and in her daily struggles to ignore the faeries, is admirable. As the full extent of Aislinn's circumstances is revealed, readers will be hooked by her tale and surely pick up the next book, Ink Exchange. Reviewer: Amanda MacGregor

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780061214677
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 4/29/2008
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 352
  • Sales rank: 42,796
  • Age range: 14 - 17 Years
  • Lexile: 700L (what's this?)
  • Series: Wicked Lovely Series, #1
  • Product dimensions: 5.30 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Melissa Marr
Melissa Marr

Melissa Marr is the author of the New York Times bestseller Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange. She has a collection of weaknesses that includes tide pools, folklore, deserts, tattoos, and new experiences.

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Wicked Lovely

By Melissa Marr

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Copyright © 2007 Melissa Marr
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ISBN: 9780061214660

Chapter One

"Four-ball, side pocket." Aislinn pushed the cue forward with a short, quick thrust; the ball dropped into the pocket with a satisfying clack.

Her playing partner, Denny, motioned toward a harder shot, a bank shot.

She rolled her eyes. "What? You in a hurry?"

He pointed with the cue.

"Right." Focus and control, that's what it's all about. She sank the two.

He nodded once, as close as he got to praise.

Aislinn circled the table, paused, and chalked the cue. Around her the cracks of balls colliding, low laughter, even the endless stream of country and blues from the jukebox kept her grounded in the real world: the human world, the safe world. It wasn't the only world, no matter how much Aislinn wanted it to be. But it hid the other world—the ugly one—for brief moments.

"Three, corner pocket." She sighted down the cue. It was a good shot.

Focus. Control.

Then she felt it: warm air on her skin. A faery, its too-hot breath on her neck, sniffed her hair. His pointed chin pressed against her skin. All the focus in the world didn't make Pointy-Face's attention tolerable.

She scratched: the only ball that dropped was the cue ball.

Denny took the ball in hand. "What was that?"

"Weak-assed?" She forced a smile, looking at Denny, at the table,anywhere but at the horde coming in the door. Even when she looked away, she heard them: laughing and squealing, gnashing teeth and beating wings, a cacophony she couldn't escape. They were out in droves now, freer somehow as evening fell, invading her space, ending any chance of the peace she'd sought.

Denny didn't stare at her, didn't ask hard questions. He just motioned for her to step away from the table and called out, "Gracie, play something for Ash."

At the jukebox Grace keyed in one of the few not-country-or-blues songs: Limp Bizkit's "Break Stuff."

As the oddly comforting lyrics in that gravelly voice took off, building to the inevitable stomach-tightening rage, Aislinn smiled. If I could let go like that, let the years of aggression spill out onto the fey . . . She slid her hand over the smooth wood of the cue, watching Pointy-Face gyrate beside Grace. I'd start with him. Right here, right now. She bit her lip. Of course, everyone would think she was utterly mad if she started swinging her cue at invisible bodies, everyone but the fey.

Before the song was over, Denny had cleared the table.

"Nice." Aislinn walked over to the wall rack and slid the cue back into an empty spot. Behind her, Pointy-Face giggled—high and shrill—and tore out a couple strands of her hair.

"Rack 'em again?" But Denny's tone said what he didn't: that he knew the answer before he asked. He didn't know why, but he could read the signs.

Pointy-Face slid the strands of her hair over his face.

Aislinn cleared her throat. "Rain check?"

"Sure." Denny began disassembling his cue. The regulars never commented on her odd mood swings or unexplainable habits.

She walked away from the table, murmuring good-byes as she went, consciously not staring at the faeries. They moved balls out of line, bumped into people—anything to cause trouble—but they hadn't stepped in her path tonight, not yet. At the table nearest the door, she paused. "I'm out of here."

One of the guys straightened up from a pretty combination shot. He rubbed his goatee, stroking the gray-shot hair. "Cinderella time?"

"You know how it is—got to get home before the shoe falls off." She lifted her foot, clad in a battered tennis shoe. "No sense tempting any princes." He snorted and turned back to the table.

A doe-eyed faery eased across the room; bone-thin with too many joints, she was vulgar and gorgeous all at once. Her eyes were far too large for her face, giving her a startled look. Combined with an emaciated body, those eyes made her seem vulnerable, innocent. She wasn't.

None of them are.

The woman at the table beside Aislinn flicked a long ash into an already overflowing ashtray. "See you next weekend."

Aislinn nodded, too tense to answer.

In a blurringly quick move, Doe-Eyes flicked a thin blue tongue out at a cloven-hoofed faery. The faery stepped back, but a trail of blood already dripped down his hollowed cheeks. Doe-Eyes giggled.

Aislinn bit her lip, hard, and lifted a hand in a last half wave to Denny. Focus. She fought to keep her steps even, calm: everything she wasn't feeling inside.

She stepped outside, lips firmly shut against dangerous words. She wanted to speak, to tell the fey to leave so she didn't have to, but she couldn't. Ever. If she did, they'd know her secret: they'd know she could see them.

The only way to survive was to keep that secret; Grams taught her that rule before she could even write her name: Keep your head down and your mouth closed. It felt wrong to have to hide, but if she even hinted at such a rebellious idea, Grams would have her in lockdown—homeschooled, no pool halls, no parties, no freedom, no Seth. She'd spent enough time in that situation during middle school.

Never again.

So—rage in check—Aislinn headed downtown, toward the relative safety of iron bars and steel doors. Whether in its base form or altered into the purer form of steel, iron was poisonous to fey and thus gloriously comforting to her. Despite the faeries that walked her streets, Huntsdale was home. She'd visited Pittsburgh, walked around D.C., explored Atlanta. They were nice enough, but they were too thriving, too alive, too filled with parks and trees. Huntsdale wasn't thriving. It hadn't been for years. That meant the fey didn't thrive here either.



Continues...
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  • Posted September 22, 2009

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    Not what it could have been...

    I like to read fantasy for fun on the side and, after reading the description of this book, I thought it seemed right up my ally. After reading the first chapter I decided I would buy it at my next trip to the bookstore and I even found myself intrigued, thinking about how the story would play out for Aislinn in the time before I got to purchase it.
    When I finally got the book I started reading right away. I wasn't finding myself getting really into the book or attatched to the characters. I decided to read on, figuring maybe I just wasn't used to this series, and as sometimes happens, I just needed to warm up and get used to the book.
    Unfortunately, that never really happened. The story itself has potential, some of the characters are interesting (though they could definitely be developed more)...so I guess I have to chalk it up to Marr's style of writing, or lackthereof? It never pulled me in.
    I was definitely curious as to what would happen and I read the book in practically no time, waiting for myself to become submerged in Marr's faery world...but then I finished the book, and it never happened.
    The basic story outline isn't bad, and I think that Marr did an okay job of creating a basic world, it just needs major polishing and better writing technique...it's really just that Marr apparantly doesn't yet posess the magic it takes to pull you in, which really is what every story teller needs. That's the feeling people are truly seeking when they pick up a book, to be able to lose themselves in another world.
    Wicked Lovely wasn't capable of doing that, at least not for me.

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  • Posted April 19, 2009

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    Didn't Like It!!!

    I didn't even finish the book! I don't know why I don't like it...I just couldnt't finish it...

    I got to the part where that guy, the farie king or someone, was talking to his mom I think...then I thought 'I don't want to finish this book' So I stoped reading it...

    I thought I would like it to! I hear good things about this book, I had high expectatons for this book, but sadly, this book didn't live up to them...

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  • Posted September 16, 2009

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    WICKED LOVELY READ

    Aislinn has always been told by her Grandmother Don't stare at invisible fairies, Don't speak to invisible fairies, Don't attract the attention of invisible fairies. Aislinn has always followed the rules that her Grandmother has told her, but now the rules are not working for her. The fairies are following Aislinn, even making themselves visible to Aislinn and now one is talking to her. Aislinn knows that steel is painful to the fairies and that is where her best friend Seth lives in a railroad car. Seth's place is a safe place for Aislinn, but now the faries are following her to Seth's place and waiting outside watching her. Aislinn always see's a fairy with a wolf and she is following her everywhere. And Keenan is a fairy that makes himself visible to Aislinn and tries to talk to her and Aislinn is scared and doesn't want anything to do with him. Keenan is the Summer King who is seeking his Summer Queen and he thinks that Aislinn is the queen. Keenan's mother is the Winter Queen is has limited Keenan's powers and he needs his Summer Queen to regain his full power. The Winter Queen doesn't want Keenan to find his Summer Queen and will do anything to keep him from finding her. When Aislinn is with Seth, she feels that she wants more than friendship with Seth, and she thinks Seth does too. Keenan doesn't give up trying to get Aislinn to talk to him and then go out with him. After Aislinn and Seth decide to try and find out what the fairies want, she decides to go out with Keenan, after which she learns that she is the Summer Queen that he is looking for, but she doesn't want to be.
    Melissa Marr has written an excellent book, that draws you in and keeps you reading, unable to put it down.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 18, 2008

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    ENTHRALLING!!!

    I was absolutely enthralled with this book. An amazing tale of the fae and a human girl that can see them.
    Aislinn can see the fae, has been able to see them her entire life. Her grandmother who has raised her, has tried to teach her the rules that would keep her safe from them. But when two fae start following Ash, the drama gets intense.
    This story is very well written,the struggle between winter and summer protrayed here as a battle of wills between the Summer King(Keenan) and the Winter Queen(Beira).
    Throughout, Ash must face her fear of the fae, make hard choices, decide to entrust someone that she cares about with her secret, stand up for herself and what she feels is best for her life and accept her destiny!
    I loved every bit of it, literally could not put it down. I was not disappoonted. I can't wait to read future works by this author.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 7, 2007

    Wickedly Loved this Book!

    Reading Wicked Lovely was great. It was great being able to immerse myself into the world Melissa Marr created. I got to know the character's well and follow the swaying emotions of Aislinn along with the akward love square. This book is juicy with adventure, love, ddeceit, and discoveries. A book that I love and heartily recommend.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 27, 2007

    Loved it

    This book was very good. One of my favorites. I loved the story line, the characters, you name it. I would've perfered she ended up with Keenen but half-way through the book that seemed wrong. So no complaints. Not the best but definatley up there.

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  • Posted February 5, 2009

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    Compelling, Brilliant and Everything else

    I was searching on the internet for books to read when I came across Wicked Lovely on amazon. I read the summary and simply had to send it to my friend so I forwarded the link. I read the first chapter and fell inlove with it. The next day I was at the mall and dragged my Dad into a bookstore at 9:00 at night. I learnt an important lesson...If your dad really wants to get home he'll buy you any book you want so long as he gets to leave. I started reading the book instantly and had a hard time putting it down. I'd read in the mornings before school and then again when I got home. I finished it quite quickly which I regret for I'm book-less once again. It's compelling and amazingly detailed. I recomend this book to any open minded person that enjoys a good faery story.

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  • Posted January 20, 2009

    Not Great But Not Bad Either

    This book for me was okay. I never really read a book that was strictly about faeries. I needed there to be more to the stories layout. I'm not the first to say this but there was just something missing for me.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 8, 2007

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    I'd been waiting to read Wicked Lovely, and it was exactly as I thought it'd be. It's very odd the way the book is set up, however. Since an ending is revealed in the beginning, you assume there's something important that happens after the ending. So the only reason I read the book was to speed things up to the ending and see what happened afterward. I didn't read the story to see what happened, I just read it to get through it. Wicked Lovely was a good book, though. It reminded me of the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer, only a bit darker with more character viewpoints. I recommend this to high-schoolers, and as a warning, there are to 'f-words' in here as well as quite a bit of talk about sex.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 6, 2007

    Beautiful and intriguing

    Compared to Holly Black's 'Tithe' this book was amazing. I was wary at first, expecting it to be like Tithe, or Valiant, but once I read the tale... I very much enjoyed it. The characters are more fleshed out than Holly Blacks, the story has more detail and substance and the way the Fay are portrayed are much more realistic to me. I also find it refreshing that the main character doesn't just fall for the 'Faery Prince' of the tale because he's of the Fay. I would recommend this to anyone, especially OVER Tithe.

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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    Aislinn like her grandmother has the ¿Sight¿ that enables them to see the fairy realm. However, wanting to be accepted by her peers and fearing their cruelty, she pretends that nothing is amiss. She lives by three simple rules. ¿: Don't ever attract their attention¿ ¿Don't speak to invisible faeries¿ and ¿Don't stare at invisible faeries¿. For much of her young life adhering to ignore them at the all costs doctrine has worked very well so that she can shoot pool with her friends without the fairies knowing she knows they are nearby. However, somehow Keenan the Summer King fairy has found out her secret. He demands she answer his interrogation for he believes she is the Winter Queen hehas sought for nine hundred mortal years. His minion and his enemies stalk Aislinn as they threaten her friends and family. She is no longer safe pretending ignorance, but her biggest trepidation is what the Summer King will do to her best friend Seth on the solstice. WICKED LOVELY is a strong teen fantasy that young adults will fully enjoy as Aislinn can no longer hide from her gift. The story line is character driven by Keenan¿s actions as he does whatever it takes to force Aislinn to become his queen. Her efforts to resist are tampered by her need to keep Seth and her other friends safe. Readers will enjoy Melissa Marr¿s teen fairy tale starring a high school student who just wants to be part of the crowd suddenly the focus of intense fairy pursuit. Harriet Klausner

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  • Posted September 3, 2009

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    Love Hate Relationship

    I was really excited about reading this book. I liked the storyline; however, Aislinn just got on my nerves. I hated the fact that she was a whinny scared individual. I mean whenever she came across a problem that seemed too difficult for her to understand, she ran away from it. I hate that!!! I mean, she's supposed to be the heroine in the story but all I saw was a pathetic girl that didn't deserve to be Summer Queen. In addition, I don't understand why she chose Seth over Keenan. I don't see anything special about him. Seth might have been there when Aislinn needed support, but I think it just added to her weakness. So, the story was great but hated the ending.

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  • Posted May 13, 2009

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    Really enjoyed it!!

    First, this was my first book by Melissa Marr and I have to confess that I came across her books when I was looking for something similar or at least within the fantasy theme that was Twilight. Of course this has nothing to do with vampires but still has as its main characters other supernatural creatures like faeries.
    Although I'm wayyy past what you would call the average age for these sort of books, I love stories that take you past the ordinary and introduce you to creatures that are either part of a culture's mythology or just too fantastic to be real.
    As some of the reviews I read said about this book, it's a modern day fairy tale and who doesn't enjoy a fairy tale every now and then??

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  • Posted December 29, 2008

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    Not Worth Money.

    I'm a big fantasy fan, but this wasnt anything special. If your curious go pick it up at the library, because its not worth money. If your bored out of your mind then I would recommend reading it, but otherwise dont.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 30, 2007

    the best book

    this was the best book i every read because of the love story i didn't want to put the book down

    2 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 22, 2007

    one word: Fantastic!!!!!!

    the book was wonderful! i dont know why people are complaining about the end, it was absolutaly perfect for the book. the characters were well thought out and played. it starts out with a girl who has 'the sight'. she can see faerys. there is also the faery king who is looking for the summer queen. the one who will return his powers and help him defeat the winter queen. keenan the summer king, is convinced that aislinn, the one with the 'sight', is his summer queen. aislinn wants nothing to do with keenan but he does not give up so easily. keenan turns aislinn into a faery. aislinn is upset because she loves seth, her best friend. seth alsways supports her. aislinn takes the test and becomes the summer queen.'sounds easy but none of keenans girls in the past 900 centuries pasted it'. they end up killing beira, the evil winter queen. donia, keenans love becomes the new winter queen. the book ends happy so if ur into the the hole romeo & juliet tragety this book isnt for u. i know i make it sound really boring but it is a really great book. u should definately read it.

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted May 27, 2010

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    Wicked Lovely

    I was unsure about Wicked Lovely when i first started it because I was more into vampires than faeries, but by the end of Wicked Lovely I had found a new fave.The story seemed very realistic and I felt like the characters could be actual people. I felt really bad for Aislinn near the end of the book and that only happens to me when i really like a book.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 12, 2010

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    Fairy Wonderful Teen Book

    Exciting story about a teen girl who is very real to life and her encounters with invisable fairies. I would put this in the catagorie of Harry Potter and the Golden Compass. A wonderful story that I shared with my niece. Characters resemble real life and not make believe teens. Excellent descriptions and easy to follow story line although it doesn't reveal too much too soon. Creative story plot and interesting characters, both Fairy and human. Good read for a teen or adult. I plan to read other books by the same author. This would make a great movie! Love it and would recommend it to others.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted December 30, 2009

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    Interesting story

    For those people who want a feeling of enchantment, this book is for you! It has faeries and love. I feel sorry for seth now and later on in fragile eternity. He's always in the corner. Keenan is too pushy, don't like him very much. Good book though.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted December 20, 2009

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    I love the series

    I originally got the series from the library and it bacame apparant after reading the first one, that it is a must own series!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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