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A review by sea_su
Rain by Amanda Sun
5.0
I absolutely love this series and I thought this book was as good as the first. I had to reread the first because I couldn’t remember what happened and I'm probably going to have to read both Ink and Rain again because the sequel doesn’t come out till next summer unfortunately.
Katie decides to stay in Japan and Tomo is a bit frustrated at first but he's happy she's there. Throughout the book they try to figure out how to control Tomo’s ink and that honestly goes nowhere except to learn about the Amaterasu and her descendants, which made everything really confusing for me to be honest. Hard to keep up how the story goes with her. (According to wiki if it helps any): Amaterasu is a major deity of the Shinto religion. She is the goddess of the sun but also of the universe. She is the sister of Susanoo, god of storm, the sea, and of Tsukiyomi (who is the god of the moon). There's apparently many different versions of the story so there's no way to tell exactly what went down. At the end of the book we find out Tomo has two kami’s blood in him, Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu. His father from Amaterasu and his mother an heir from Tsukiyomi. The ink in his father never awoke. Tsukiyomi was the lover of Amaterasu and she betrayed him.
But figuring out how Tomo’s going to control it is just part of the entire series. There's Jun whose descended from Susanoo, which makes him evil. Then there's The Yakuza wanting a kami to do their dirty work, Katie trying to keep up with Japanese school and her friends. We also get to see Shiori’s real side which pissed me the fuck off. Chapters 16 & 17 were pure torture with me yelling at the book. But the moments with Katie and Tomo were too cute. I love the authors writing and when this series is over I really hope she continues writing.
Katie decides to stay in Japan and Tomo is a bit frustrated at first but he's happy she's there. Throughout the book they try to figure out how to control Tomo’s ink and that honestly goes nowhere except to learn about the Amaterasu and her descendants, which made everything really confusing for me to be honest. Hard to keep up how the story goes with her. (According to wiki if it helps any): Amaterasu is a major deity of the Shinto religion. She is the goddess of the sun but also of the universe. She is the sister of Susanoo, god of storm, the sea, and of Tsukiyomi (who is the god of the moon). There's apparently many different versions of the story so there's no way to tell exactly what went down. At the end of the book we find out Tomo has two kami’s blood in him, Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu. His father from Amaterasu and his mother an heir from Tsukiyomi. The ink in his father never awoke. Tsukiyomi was the lover of Amaterasu and she betrayed him.
But figuring out how Tomo’s going to control it is just part of the entire series. There's Jun whose descended from Susanoo, which makes him evil. Then there's The Yakuza wanting a kami to do their dirty work, Katie trying to keep up with Japanese school and her friends. We also get to see Shiori’s real side which pissed me the fuck off. Chapters 16 & 17 were pure torture with me yelling at the book. But the moments with Katie and Tomo were too cute. I love the authors writing and when this series is over I really hope she continues writing.