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Ink
by Amanda Sun
3.5 stars
I liked the concept of the book. I liked the environment and the mythology of the Kami Gods. The only problem I had was with the main character. I liked her at times but the majority of the time I found myself rolling my eyes at everything she did. I havent read a book with a main character that was overly sensitive so I guess that why I was annoyed with her all the time. But I liked that she never gave up on anything and she pushed though struggles (her mom dying and moving to another country where she didnt know the language). Shes tough but she cries alot... Shes also overly romantic, that if she and Tomo split up the world will be off balanced!
The romance was also leaning towards insta-love. I think if Tomo wasnt that "bad-ass" "tough" guy that was pushing Katie away and instead fall hard for her too, it would have been super annoying. I liked Tomo though, I wish there was more of him in the book though. Looking back, I dont think there was enough information for me to understand the struggles he was going though. And it didnt help that Katie was gullible and believed everything he said or others said to fully understand the other characters.
Katie is also a stalker, and it gets annoying because she kinda blames others for her stalking. Like she would follow Tomo and she would get caught and then she'll be like, well if you weren't so interesting or hiding something. There was this other time where she yelled at Tomo to tell her the truth about him and then she started to freak out and she was like "i dont know what to do with this unwanted information" when she would stalk him and asked him a million questions to know this information -_- Its a love or hate relationship with Katie for the reader, at least for me.
The Yakuza was also in the book. I didnt know who they were and the book doesnt explain who they are either so I had to google them. They are Japan's Mafia which I thought was a cool thing to put in the book. Its a mix of fantasy with the Kami gods but also real crime in the book, I enjoyed that aspect. I just wished the author explained who the Yakuza are so I wouldnt have to stop reading the book and read TruTv's 6 chapters of Yakuza's history (which was interesting, so I wasnt even mad... sorta).
Theres a lot of illustrations in the book that I though we so pretty, I couldnt stop staring at them or even the cover. Oops.
This book also reminded me of Twilight. But where Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout had many parallels to Twilight and the story was awesome. Ink had the parallels and same concepts, but the execution was a miss.
I liked the concept of the book. I liked the environment and the mythology of the Kami Gods. The only problem I had was with the main character. I liked her at times but the majority of the time I found myself rolling my eyes at everything she did. I havent read a book with a main character that was overly sensitive so I guess that why I was annoyed with her all the time. But I liked that she never gave up on anything and she pushed though struggles (her mom dying and moving to another country where she didnt know the language). Shes tough but she cries alot... Shes also overly romantic, that if she and Tomo split up the world will be off balanced!
The romance was also leaning towards insta-love. I think if Tomo wasnt that "bad-ass" "tough" guy that was pushing Katie away and instead fall hard for her too, it would have been super annoying. I liked Tomo though, I wish there was more of him in the book though. Looking back, I dont think there was enough information for me to understand the struggles he was going though. And it didnt help that Katie was gullible and believed everything he said or others said to fully understand the other characters.
Katie is also a stalker, and it gets annoying because she kinda blames others for her stalking. Like she would follow Tomo and she would get caught and then she'll be like, well if you weren't so interesting or hiding something. There was this other time where she yelled at Tomo to tell her the truth about him and then she started to freak out and she was like "i dont know what to do with this unwanted information" when she would stalk him and asked him a million questions to know this information -_- Its a love or hate relationship with Katie for the reader, at least for me.
The Yakuza was also in the book. I didnt know who they were and the book doesnt explain who they are either so I had to google them. They are Japan's Mafia which I thought was a cool thing to put in the book. Its a mix of fantasy with the Kami gods but also real crime in the book, I enjoyed that aspect. I just wished the author explained who the Yakuza are so I wouldnt have to stop reading the book and read TruTv's 6 chapters of Yakuza's history (which was interesting, so I wasnt even mad... sorta).
Theres a lot of illustrations in the book that I though we so pretty, I couldnt stop staring at them or even the cover. Oops.
This book also reminded me of Twilight. But where Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout had many parallels to Twilight and the story was awesome. Ink had the parallels and same concepts, but the execution was a miss.