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daniella84 's review for:
Ink
by Alice Broadway
First of all, the cover of this is absolutely beautiful - probably one of my favourite.
Right at the beginning I was put off by the idea of the skin books - when I picked this up I thought it would be more about how people got their marks etc. rather than their significance for the afterlife, but it was an interesting concept still. The twists were pretty predictable for the most part, but what annoyed me the most was how so much on this book is based on literally everyone around Leora knowing the truth and refusing to tell her. So much of the conflict in this book is just based around this big secret of her identity, and her reaction was always to run away but then she will return immediately? It seemed like this big reveal could have happened earlier in the book and have the story go from there, because to me it felt like nothing much really happened - like Three Dark Crowns it kind of seems like a prequel rather than the first book in the series.
That being said I did like some aspects of the world - like people being vilified for not wanting to wear their hearts on their sleeves - but I think the building up of the blanks to be enemies wasn't so effective for me. Though Leora certainly believed it, at no point was I convinced that the blanks were these evil people that they were made out to be, so the reveals about the governments plans etc. weren't super shocking. Also Leora is constantly made out to be pretty intelligent - she never really had to study for her exams - and yet she constantly misses very clear hints people give her about her identity (though I do see this could be like disbelief but she didn't even really entertain ideas until someone had completely laid it out for her already). I did still enjoy the book as a bit of fun though.
Right at the beginning I was put off by the idea of the skin books - when I picked this up I thought it would be more about how people got their marks etc. rather than their significance for the afterlife, but it was an interesting concept still. The twists were pretty predictable for the most part, but what annoyed me the most was how so much on this book is based on literally everyone around Leora knowing the truth and refusing to tell her. So much of the conflict in this book is just based around this big secret of her identity, and her reaction was always to run away but then she will return immediately? It seemed like this big reveal could have happened earlier in the book and have the story go from there, because to me it felt like nothing much really happened - like Three Dark Crowns it kind of seems like a prequel rather than the first book in the series.
That being said I did like some aspects of the world - like people being vilified for not wanting to wear their hearts on their sleeves - but I think the building up of the blanks to be enemies wasn't so effective for me. Though Leora certainly believed it, at no point was I convinced that the blanks were these evil people that they were made out to be, so the reveals about the governments plans etc. weren't super shocking. Also Leora is constantly made out to be pretty intelligent - she never really had to study for her exams - and yet she constantly misses very clear hints people give her about her identity (though I do see this could be like disbelief but she didn't even really entertain ideas until someone had completely laid it out for her already). I did still enjoy the book as a bit of fun though.