A review by elsez326
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish

4.0

This was a dense read for me. I put it down about 200 hundred pages in and then came back to it, and am glad I did. I don't think that I can claim to understand all the religious philosophy, but I really did enjoy the characters and the story. Helen and Esther were such interesting protagonists, and I loved learning about a piece of history I knew nothing about. Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam and London, life during plague times, even document conservation - definitely lots of research by the author and I loved reading about it.