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Ink
by Amanda Sun
I love this book! Everything about it-the cover, the art, the setting, the story....it's fantastic!
First off, can I just gush about the cover?! I had the paperback edition, which felt like real calligraphy paper. It most likely wasn't, but whoever mimicked the product did a fabulous job. I love the art of the main character on the cover-it looks like traditional Japanese art!
The art inside the book is also great. I tend to steer away from books with illustrations in them, they seem sorta childish to me, but in this book, it works at helping the story feel more real.
I also love the setting! I'm in my fourth year of taking Japanese in school, and unfortunately good books set in Japan are the exception. I always feel left out. But here, not only was the Japanese language incorporated beautifully into the text-and I could test my prowess out on translating the English-but the description of the city itself is very well done. I felt like I was in an anime or Japanese drama althroughout the story.
And the plot sounds lifted from a Japanese drama, doesn't it? Drawings coming to life is nothing new, but I feel like it really fits into Japanese culture the best because of their long ties to it. The ancient ties to the Kami was great as well, and as someone who also loves Japanese mythology I'm eager to see which myth this parallels...
Overall, a wonderfully-written story that I'm more than pleased I read, and I will most certainly be finishing this trilogy as soon as I can.
First off, can I just gush about the cover?! I had the paperback edition, which felt like real calligraphy paper. It most likely wasn't, but whoever mimicked the product did a fabulous job. I love the art of the main character on the cover-it looks like traditional Japanese art!
The art inside the book is also great. I tend to steer away from books with illustrations in them, they seem sorta childish to me, but in this book, it works at helping the story feel more real.
I also love the setting! I'm in my fourth year of taking Japanese in school, and unfortunately good books set in Japan are the exception. I always feel left out. But here, not only was the Japanese language incorporated beautifully into the text-and I could test my prowess out on translating the English-but the description of the city itself is very well done. I felt like I was in an anime or Japanese drama althroughout the story.
And the plot sounds lifted from a Japanese drama, doesn't it? Drawings coming to life is nothing new, but I feel like it really fits into Japanese culture the best because of their long ties to it. The ancient ties to the Kami was great as well, and as someone who also loves Japanese mythology I'm eager to see which myth this parallels...
Overall, a wonderfully-written story that I'm more than pleased I read, and I will most certainly be finishing this trilogy as soon as I can.