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adsowhitney 's review for:
Ink
by Amanda Sun
I think the story was more of a 3.5, but I was entertained the whole time while reading it. The main thing I kept thinking was that this would make a good anime/manga. I don't know if I thought that because of the setting or because of the way that it was written, but either way I still think it would. There were a few things I had some issues with, but for the most part they were pretty small. I wasn't really a huge fan of the romance, but when am I ever really. I have just learned that the romance will probably be there in YA books and that I'll just deal with it. (Not that I'd let something glaringly abusive slide if I saw it ---
***** SPOILER ---- there was that one part that I thought I was going to have to call out at the love hotel and I still kind of want to, but at the same time I get the reason, but there were def other ways to go about it.------ END SPOILER*****
I really liked the atmosphere and the setting. I've never read anything set in Japan, but the integration of the setting and the language really pulled me in and gave me a weird since of nostalgia... even though I've never been to Japan. It must be all of the anime and foreign movies I watched. I also have a thing for being entranced by language (real or made up), so I'm sure the Japanese be integrated into the narrative helped to pull me in as well.
***** SPOILER ---- there was that one part that I thought I was going to have to call out at the love hotel and I still kind of want to, but at the same time I get the reason, but there were def other ways to go about it.------ END SPOILER*****
I really liked the atmosphere and the setting. I've never read anything set in Japan, but the integration of the setting and the language really pulled me in and gave me a weird since of nostalgia... even though I've never been to Japan. It must be all of the anime and foreign movies I watched. I also have a thing for being entranced by language (real or made up), so I'm sure the Japanese be integrated into the narrative helped to pull me in as well.