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kriti4309e 's review for:
Ink
by Amanda Sun
Okay so this book........
I was going to put it down when I picked it up in the library but there are three reasons why I decided to read it anyway.
1) It's in Japan! I'm not as immersed in the Japanese culture as other people but I do think it's a cool place and a lot of books I have read are set in the Western hemisphere.
2) INTERRACIAL COUPLES! Being an South Asian-American child of American immigrants I support interracial marriage. In fact the last couple of weddings I've been to here in the US are interracial marriages. I think there should be more books about interracial couples or books with characters that aren't white (not that hate white people or anything. I just really like diversity and it is getting there)
3)The cover! It is absolutely GORGEOUS! Just look at it!!
So anyways I opened it, assuming that I wouldn't like it at all. To my surprise, I was hooked.
Katie Greene just lost her mother and now has to live with her Aunt in Japan until her grandparents are well enough to take custody of her (the grandfather has cancer). She makes friends with this girl named Yuki and her friend Tanaka. One day at school she meets this hot badboy named Tomohiro Yuu or Yuu Tomohiro (I really have no idea which way to go). They don't get off to a great start yadda yadda yadda typical girl meets mysterious boy thing. Sort of.
Oh and she also meets this other mysterious hot guy named Jun who just so happened to be one of my favorite characters. Uh oh you know what that means?
LOVE TRIANGLE!!!!!
So anyways we found out that Tomohiro is a Kami which are the descendants of the paper goddess and that Tomo's ink drawings come to life. For some reason when Katie and Tomo are together, Tomo's powers are more strong and hard to control.
I admit I really liked Tomo and Katie's bickering. There was one thing that made me annoyed, Katie's obsession with Tomo in the beginning. She follows him around and thinks there's something wrong with him which she just has to find out! She goes on about Tomohiro bothering her when I actually think she's bothering him and SHE should leave HIM ALONE! I don't know how else to say it Katie but you are acting an awful lot like a stalker. I got over it once they started to get on better terms but it was really annoying in the first half.
Also Jun...........*SPOILER* he just had to be crazy didn't he? Nevertheless, I really liked that twist. Sure the fact that Jun would randomly pop up conveniantly got extremely predictable but I still liked the kami twist.
Overall I enjoyed Ink in a sort of guilty pleasure type of way. It's the type of book that I wanted to avoid but still ended being extremely entertained by it. Will I pick up the next book? It depends. I'm not dying to read it or anything but if I do come across it and I'm having a slow day at the library, then maybe I will pick it up.