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Well. That was... really well done. I'm reserving judgement until the end of the series, but I was very glad to read into Inkworld and see what was happening. I was glad to get some of Mo's point of view for once. I was equal parts frustrated with and sympathetic to Meggie. And I did not see that ending coming, which I'll take as a sign of great plotting.

It's good stuff. I'm writing this, finally, 250 pages into Inkdeath and so far so... I don't know. I can tell she's setting up some big stuff, but I don't know how it's going to play out. I'm looking forward to it.

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verini's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? N/A
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

iammiranda's review against another edition

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adventurous inspiring mysterious reflective

nela_reads's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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3.0

3.5

I dont give half stars or write reviews but I feel like it was necessary here. Soooo I definitely liked this a bit less than the first book. some characters (cough fenoglio cough) really really annoyed me. the worldbuilding was one of the things i have less to complain about, ofcourse very nice and cool. I disliked how some characters interacted with and referred to each other like the black prince and violante. poor girl just wants to read and her husband freshly "back from the dead" to like her and what she gets in return is be a victim of unprovoked mysoginistic attacks from all sides. Now, i did like how the relationships between father child duos (farid and dustfinger and mo and meggie) were explored and portrayed. as mentioned above fenoglios character, especially how he interacted with "his World" really annoyed me to no end and I have multiple annotations just reading "SHUT UP ALREADY" when hes on Page. Since he has a pretty big role to play in this book, his appearances weren't few and far apart as I would've liked so im afraid a lot of the reason why I dislike this more than the previous one is because of that, as well as the whole relationship between meggie and farid, which just felt inauthentic? I feel like they would've been much better as besties or smth esp regarding their age difference and meggie being only at most 13. I also would've wished to have more point of views maybe? of elinor sure, but maybe even darius and roxane.
on to the good things; dustfinger and farid are my favs no competition, so this was definitely very nice to see explored more, farid with his enthusiasm to learning as much as he can from him, always fearing for dustfingers life and dustfinger just trying his best to enjoy his return and constantly catching strays, that poor man needs a break- I enjoyed the way the characters had such different views ob how they experience the inkworld, what their focus was in it and how they interacted with it. Overall it was still a pretty good book!