History Literature / WickedLovely

* {{Bishonen}}: Despite the scars, Niall is outright referred to as 'pretty' often.

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Sorcha by Radiant Shadows. Aislinn also has elements of this. Subverted with Donia, who adapts to being Winter Queen surprisingly well. [[spoiler:Completely averted with Ani, who pretty much [[JumpedAtTheCall jumps at the call]] where the Shadow Court is concerned.]]

* TriangRelations: Of the polyamourous variety. Ani/Devlin/Rae is a type seven [[spoiler:which turns into more of an eleven at the end of Radiant Shadows with the loyalty/friendship between Ani and Rae nonsexual in nature. Rae and Ani certainly don't seem to mind sharing Devlin.]] Irial/Niall/Leslie is a type eight.

%%* InnocentCohabitation: Keenan and Aislinn.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The solitary fey work on "rule of might and will,",which basically amounts to this. Unusual for this trope, and likely due to FairFolk BlueAndOrangeMorality, this is a ''good'' thing, or at least works for the solitaries.

* AboveGoodAndEvil: How Irial perceives the Dark Court. See also this page's entry for BlueAndOrangeMorality.
* ActionGirl: Ani, Chela. All female Hounds probably apply.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: However, it's pretty clear that boys want bad girls as well.
* AnchoredShip: Aislinn and Keenan.
* AndIMustScream: Shades [ghosts of faeries], "trapped and silent for all eternity."

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Ani, according to WordOfGod.
* AxCrazy: Bananach.
* AnIcePerson: The Winter Court.
* BadassNormal: Aislinn's grandmother; Seth [[spoiler: (most of the time).]]

* BattleCouple: Ani and Devlin; Gabriel and Chela.
* BeCarefulWhatYouSay
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Poor Leslie.

* BikerBabe: Ani.

* BloodKnight: Bananach, the Hounds.

* BodyguardCrush: Even though Niall kinda fails at the bodyguard part.

---> "Pride comes before a fall, my friend. But then, you've already fallen, haven't you?"
* BrokenBird: Leslie. Donia as well, who is arguably even more of a woobie, just the [[IronWoobie iron]] variety.
* [[spoiler:BroughtDownToNormal: Keenan at the end of Darkest Mercy, after giving up his immortality to save Donia's life. He gets better in the epilogue, though.]]

* ByronicHero: Irial.

* CastingAShadow: The dark and [[spoiler: shadow]] courts, of course.
* ChickMagnet: Irial, Niall, Keenan, Seth
* CuteGhostGirl: Rae, the spectral girl who Devlin takes into his care.
* CityNoir: Huntsdale, just...Huntsdale.
* TheChosenOne: Aislinn, [[spoiler: Ani.]]
** TheUnChosenOne: Donia, Rika.

* DecadentCourt: Everyone, really, but most especially the Dark Court - again.
* DreamWeaver: Rae.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Niall.
* DysfunctionJunction: Everyone has issues of some kind. EVERYONE. Misery loves company and faeries, evidently.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Definitely. These characters go through a ''lot'', and things get pretty bad for faerie as a whole at points, but it's worth it in the end.
* EmotionEater: The Dark Court, Ani especially.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Oh, ''Irial''. Niall too. Remember the scene with Seth lusting on him in Fragile Eternity?

* EvilIsDeathlyCold: Beira.
* FaceHeelTurn: Niall. Probably inevitable, but more interesting angsty.
* [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Faeries 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. 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. Although faeries HAVE been said to possess the gift of tongues.
* TheFairFolk: Pretty much the very engine of the series.
* FatalFlaw: Way to withhold vital info, Keenan.
* FemmeFatalons: Bananach. Of course, without faery glamour, they're ''literal'' talons.

* FreakinessShame: Think Niall's extensive scarring might be unattractive? Pfft.

** "Sometimes, it's not about being happy, but courting happiness."
* GreenThumb: Again, the Summer Court.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Ani, Tish, and Rabbit. To a much lesser extent, Aislinn.
* HalfTruth: What else did you expect from TheFairFolk?
* TheHighQueen: Sorcha, of course. She's even called the High Queen.

* IdiotBall: Aislinn in Fragile Eternity, Sorcha in Radiant Shadows.

* InnocentCohabitation: Keenan and Aislinn.
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: The Dark Court, and how.

* JumpedAtTheCall: Ani in Radiant Shadows. Given that she didn't fit in the Dark Court or among Gabriel's Hounds, it's quite understandable.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Tish in ''Radiant Shadows''. Evan and Gabriel as well in ''Darkest Mercy''.]]
* LandOfFaerie: Where the High and Shadow Courts reside.
* LightIsNotGood: The Summer Court is far from perfect and the High Court is implied to be the villain in Radiant Shadows.
* LoveHurts: Hoo, ''boy''.
* MagicalGirl: Um... all of them?

* MamaBear: [[spoiler: Sorcha towards Seth.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Irial, full stop.

* NonHumanSidekick: The Hounds' Steeds, and Donia's wolf Sasha.
* NobodyThinksItWillWork: The general reaction of the Summer Court to Aislinn's relationship with Seth. [[spoiler: It works out in the end, though.]]

* OfficialCouple: Aislinn/Seth, Donia/Keenan, Ani/Devlin, Irial/Niall, Niall/Leslie.
* OmnicidalManiac: Bananach.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Rabbit, Gabriel.
* TheOphelia: If Sorcha wasn't one in Radiant Shadows, she was damn close.
* OrderVersusChaos: High Court and Dark Court. Sorcha and Bananach. Reason and War. [[spoiler: You can't kill one without killing the other.]]
** EmotionsVsStoicism: Though it plays out a bit differently then most examples of the trope, with Dark (emotion) fey being portrayed more sympathetically than their High Court (stoicism) counterparts.

* OutWithABang: Pity the poor innocent bystanders in Ink Exchange. Well, poor innocent quasi-bystanders.
* PlantPerson: Hawthorn (Winter) and Rowan (Summer) fey.
* {{Polyamory}}: Niall, Irial, and Leslie are all totally cool with their emotional - though not physical - three-way. To a lesser extent, Ani and Rae don't appear to have any qualms about sharing Devlin either.
* PosthumousCharacter: Miach, the previous Summer King, and Moira, Aislinn's mother.

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: Being a pretty smart girl, Leslie puts herself on a bus at the end of Ink Exchange.]]
** [[spoiler: She [[TheBusCameBack comes back]] in Darkest Mercy.]]
%%ZCE * RagsToRoyalty
* RapeAsBackstory: Leslie. Niall as well, even though in his case backstory means '1200 years ago'. Still counts.

* RedStringOfFate: Aislinn and Keenan, though she resists it [[spoiler: -- with success, for the most part.]]
* ReformedRakes: Seth.
* ReluctantMonster: Niall as a Gancanagh, [[spoiler: before becoming the Dark King]].
* ResignedToTheCall: Aislinn at the end of Wicked Lovely.
** Niall at the end of ''Ink Exchange'', after Irial forces him to become the new Dark King.

* ScarsAreForever: Niall, oh so much so.
* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: Half of Keenan's power as the Summer King, sealed away by Beira and Irial.
* SeasonalBaggage: Well, two of them: Winter and Summer.

* SiblingYinYang: Sorcha and Bananach.
* SmokingIsCool: Oh, Irial...
* SingleMindedTwins: Ani and Tish act like this, despite not actually being twins.
* TheSymbiote: How ink exchanges are supposed to work.

* TookALevelInBadass: Niall in Fragile Eternity, Aislinn in Darkest Mercy.

* TroubledButCute: Niall.

* UnderstandingBoyfriend: The degree to which Seth embodies this trope comes dangerously close to ridiculousness.
* UnwantedSpouse: Their shared leadership of the Summer Court puts Aislinn and Keenan in this kind of relationship.
* WhatIsEvil: Irial tends to do this a bit. See "above good and evil", above. Some people thought [[http://wickedlovely.com/forum1/index.php?topic=1321.0 a bit too much]] about it, as well.
* WillingChanneler: [[spoiler: What the ink exchange makes Leslie into.]]
* WinterRoyalLady: Beira and Donia.
* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Where the hell is Huntsdale?]]: It was actually assumed to be in Pennsylvania, until Melissa said she deliberately left it ambiguous.
* TheWildHunt: The Gabriel hounds, and possibly the shadow court.

* WonderChild: [[spoiler: Seth, pretty much.]]

%%ZCE * YouSexyBeast

Aislinn is an ordinary human girl - or she would be, if it weren't for the fact she can see faeries. All her life she's been terrified of them, trying to hide her gift to avoid attracting their attention. But that becomes very difficult when one very powerful faerie starts following her.

* AboveGoodAndEvil: How Irial perceives the Dark Court. See also this page's entry for Blue and Orange Morality.

** Ink Exchange, in particular, has the characters (especially Irial) learns 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.

* BastardBoyfriend: Irial can come off this way in regards to Leslie and Niall.

* KnifeNut: Probably the way many fey fight, but special mention goes to Ani who states at one point "a girl can never have too many knives". Also her father Gabriel, and Bananach.

* HumanMomNonhumanDad: Gabriel's kids: Ani, Rabbit and Tish.

* YaoiGuys: Irial and Niall again.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Niall

* RagsToRoyalty

* TroubledButCute: Niall

* YouSexyBeast

* DeadlyDecadentCourt: Everyone, really, but most especially the Dark Court - again.

* FourSeasons: Well, two of them: Winter and Summer.

->''Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.''
->''Rule #2: Don't answer invisible faeries.''
->''Rule #1: Don't ever attract faeries' attention.''
-->-- ''Wicked Lovely''

->-- ''Wicked Lovely''

* Title Drop: Once a book.

* WordOfGod: Plenty of it- Melissa pops up on the fan forums every now and then.

''Wicked Lovely'' is a [[YoungAdult YA]] urban fantasy series by Creator/MelissaMarr. 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 compilatation of short stories set in the Wicked Lovely universe among others and ''Desert Tales'' (2013), a companion novel about a former Winter Girl.

''Wicked Lovely'' is a [[YoungAdult YA]] urban fantasy series by Creator/MelissaMarr. It consists of a book of the same name (2007), ''Ink Exchange'' (2008), ''Fragile Eternity'' (2009), ''Radiant Shadows'' (2010) and ''Darkest Mercy'' (2011).

->-- Wicked Lovely

' ''Wicked Lovely''' is a [[YoungAdult YA]] urban fantasy series by Creator/MelissaMarr. It consists of a book of the same name (2007), ''Ink Exchange'' (2008), ''Fragile Eternity'' (2009), ''Radiant Shadows'' (2010) and ''Darkest Mercy'' (2011).

Keenan, the young king of the Summer Court, thinks she might be his prophesized Summer Queen. The one who'll save the fae world from the opressive rule of the Winter Court. And it's not too long before Aislinn is pulled into a world of dark magic, political intrigue, and romance.

' ''Wicked Lovely''' is a [[YoungAdult YA]] urban fantasy series by MelissaMarr. It consists of a book of the same name (2007), ''Ink Exchange'' (2008), ''Fragile Eternity'' (2009), ''Radiant Shadows'' (2010) and ''Darkest Mercy'' (2011).

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Rabbit.

* OrderVersusChaos: High Court and Dark Court. Sorcha and Bananach. Reason and War.
** EmotionsVsStoicism: Though it plays out a bit differently then most examples of the trope, with dark (emotion) fey being portrayed more sympathetically than their high court (stoicism) counterparts.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Not technically vampires, but needing others' blood is a result of Devlin being the balance between Reason and War.

* PosthumousCharacter: Miach, Moira.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: The Summer Court, of course, especially Keenan.

* RapeAsBackstory: Leslie. And Niall, even though in his case backstory means '1200 years ago'. Still counts.
* RealityWarper: Sorcha, Bananach, [[spoiler: Seth in the human world]], Devlin, Rae in dreams, and arguably [[spoiler: Ani once she becomes Gabrielle.]]
* RedStringOfFate: Aislinn and Keenan, though she resists it [[spoiler: - with success, for the most part]]

* ReluctantMonster: Niall as a Gancanagh, [[spoiler: before becoming Dark King]].

* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: The Summer Queen, sealed away by Beira and Irial.

* ActionGirl: Ani, Chela.

* BadassNormal: Aislinn's grandmother; Seth [[spoiler: (most of the time)]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Poor Leslie.
* BedmateReveal: In Radiant Shadows, involving Irial, Ani, and Niall.

* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: Only some humans, like Aislinn and her grandmother, can naturally See faeries.)

* CannotTellALie: Extensive use, in accordance with old fairy folklore.

* CuteGhostGirl: Rae.

* DreamWeaver: Rae

* EmotionEater: The Dark Court.

* FreakinessShame: Think Niall's extensive scarring might be unattractive? Pfft.)
* FriendVersusLover: Keenan and Seth do NOT get along.

* FourSeasons: Well, two of them.

* GreenThumb: Again, the Summer Court.

* HumanMomNonhumanDad: Gabriel's kids; Ani, Rabbit and Tish.
* TheHighQueen: Sorcha, of course.

* IdiotBall: Aislinn in Fragile Eternity, Sorcha in Radiant Shadows.

* InterspeciesRomance
* JumpedAtTheCall: Ani in Radiant Shadows.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Tish. Evan and Gabriel as well.]]

* LandOfFaerie: Where the High and Shadow courts reside.

* LoveHurts: Hoo, ''boy''.
* MagicalGirl: Um... all of them?

* ManipulativeBastard: Irial

* NobodyThinksItWillWork: The general reaction of the Summer Court to Aislinn's relationship with Seth.
* NotHimself: [[spoiler: In Darkest Mercy, the shade of dead Irial persists in Niall's mind, and sometimes takes full possession of the body, causing the already-falling-apart-at-the-seams Niall to black out now and then, only to come to and realize that he's stabbed someone else without being aware of it, or something like that. Keenan figures out what's going on after realizing that Niall is not himself.]]

' ''Wicked Lovely''' is [[YoungAdult YA]] urban fantasy series by MelissaMarr. It consists of a book of the same name (2007), ''Ink Exchange'' (2008), ''Fragile Eternity'' (2009), ''Radiant Shadows'' (2010) and ''Darkest Mercy'' (2011).

Aislinn is an ordinary human girl - or she would be, if it weren't for the fact she can see faeries. All her life she's been terrified of them, trying to hide her gift to avoid attracting their attention. But that becomes very difficult when one very powerful faerie starts following her. Keenan, the young king of the Summer Court, thinks she might be his prophesized Summer Queen. The one who'll save the fae world from the opressive rule of the Winter Court. And it's not too long before Aislinn is pulled into a world of dark magic, political intrigue, and romance.

->"Don't stare at invisible faeries, Rule #3.
->Don't answer invisible faeries, Rule #2.
->And... Rule #1: Don't ever attract faeries' attention."
->-- Aislinn, Wicked Lovely

''Wicked Lovely'' is a 2007 YA fantasy novel by MelissaMarr. The title can also refer to the ''Wicked Lovely'' series, which includes the novel of the same name, ''Ink Exchange'' (2008), ''Fragile Eternity'' (2009), ''Radiant Shadows'' (2010) and ''Darkest Mercy'' (2011). A short story, "Stopping Time", serves as a sort of postscript to ''Ink Exchange''. Chock full of romance and a dash of political intrigue, the series is a ParanormalRomance set in Huntsdale, where three of the four Courts of {{Faerie}} currently reside.

The first book deals with Keenan, the King of the Summer Court, courting a human girl named Aislinn, who he hopes is the [[{{SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan}} missing]] Summer Queen, and her attempts to resist his advances. Subsequent books build upon the cast of characters established in ''Wicked Lovely'', introducing readers to the movers and shakers within the Winter, Dark and High Courts. Further explanation of the plot would simply be too spoileriffic.

The fifth book, ''Darkest Mercy'' was recently released, and a short story anthology is planned for 2012.

* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Partially subverted in Fragile Eternity.

* AerithAndBob: Let's see...Aislinn, Seth, Leslie, Rianne, Carla, Grace, ''Sorcha, Bananach''...

* AndIMustScream: Shades [ghosts of faeries], 'trapped and silent for all eternity'.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: the solitary fey work on "rule of might and will", which basically amounts to this. Unusual for this trope, and likely due to FairFolk BlueAndOrangeMorality, this is a ''good'' thing, or at least works for the solitaries.
* AuthorCatchphrase: "There are always choices", which doubles as AnAesop, is spoken by a different character every book, sometimes more than once.)
* AuthorAppeal: Non-sexual, but several characters have similar tastes in music and fashion to Melissa Marr, not to mention the whole tattoo thing in Ink Exchange...