tragiccharacter 's review for:

Ink by Amanda Sun
3.0

I listened to this book from audible and that was both and amazing and sometimes disappointing experience. I don't read unfamiliar (foreign) words well so having a book set in Japan with loads of foreign vocab and phrases interspersed required I use audio. I loved the reader's Japanese voice and she was great at the nuances involved in those. But her narration was otherwise mediocre, with either the editing or her reading failing to pick up some important moments that required inflections she just failed at.

The novel was intriguing, a story vehicle, living ink, I had not seen before. But it was not completely satisfying. Neither am I compelled to read the second in the series. It was... okay. Worth a few hours maybe, but probably not if you have a very long reading list.