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A review by votesforwomen
Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
3.0
*sighs* I wanted to like this so bad, but I don't think I'll be continuing with the series.
The characters were all flat, and the world never felt explained enough. For instance, if books are banned, WHERE DO THEY COME FROM? Where do black market copies of books come from if there are no printing presses and all the books are uploaded to the library? Why would anyone ever need more than one copy of a book?
Also, Morgan. I'm sorry. But I never, not for one second, found any reason to care about her. There was nothing she did worthy of liking. Her existence kind of made me crazy, and I saw no reason to care about her other than "oh, she's Jess's pretty love interest for no reason at all!" They had no chemistry. And all the other characters...dynamics I've seen, stereotypes for the most part. It was rather disappointing.
I could also never tell if Jess's father cared about him or hated him. Like...okay.
3 stars...it did have some good qualities, but overall I just didn't feel connected enough to either the world or the characters to go on with the series.
Content advisory: Quite a bit of light cussing (mostly d-words, and b******d showed up a number of times too. Kissing, and a couple is implied? to be gay. Also a lot of violence, some of which was related to sieges and was fairly disturbing.
The characters were all flat, and the world never felt explained enough. For instance, if books are banned, WHERE DO THEY COME FROM? Where do black market copies of books come from if there are no printing presses and all the books are uploaded to the library? Why would anyone ever need more than one copy of a book?
Also, Morgan. I'm sorry. But I never, not for one second, found any reason to care about her. There was nothing she did worthy of liking. Her existence kind of made me crazy, and I saw no reason to care about her other than "oh, she's Jess's pretty love interest for no reason at all!" They had no chemistry. And all the other characters...dynamics I've seen, stereotypes for the most part. It was rather disappointing.
I could also never tell if Jess's father cared about him or hated him. Like...okay.
3 stars...it did have some good qualities, but overall I just didn't feel connected enough to either the world or the characters to go on with the series.
Content advisory: Quite a bit of light cussing (mostly d-words, and b******d showed up a number of times too. Kissing, and a couple is implied? to be gay. Also a lot of violence, some of which was related to sieges and was fairly disturbing.