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A review by kblincoln
Invisible by Dawn Metcalf
5.0
I used to do this thing where I'd assign a "snack rating" to books in my reviews....because sometimes reading a book is like eating a bag of potato chips :) If Invisible were a snack, it would be one of my go-to comfort foods: Parmesan Garlic kettle chips.
It's basically Kirsten catnip (only missing some "adult romance" if you know what I mean). Dawn Metcalf does a fabulous job of upping the ante, getting deeper into Joy's world, keeping some of those Ink-and-Joy sensuous scenes where he's learning about being human through touch (conveniently interrupted by brothers and other stuff sadly) and consolidating the fae world of the Twixt.
But besides Joy's troubles now that she's no longer bound to Ink and there's someone sending an unstoppable assassin against her, there's these little moments of real world poignancy and depth that really make this series stand out for me.
Joy is also dealing with a anger against a mother who left their family, and also has a black friend who is in love with a white german guy and uncomfortable with the issues raised by that. There's a moment where Monica sits Joy down and forces her to confront the fact that its easy for Joy to ignore the issues because "you love him and he loves you" because Joy is white.
And there's a moment where Joy, in the midst of her last ditch effort to save her own life in front of the Twixt Council where she has to dress up and notes fleetingly that her feet, spoiled by a summer of flip flops have squished toes in her strappy heels.
It's notes like this that make the fantastic stuff more enjoyable and real-seeming by contrast.
And there's lots of fun fight scenes with Filly the Nordic warrior.
Sometimes I get tangled up (much like Joy and Filly get tangled up in Kestrel's lead line when hunting the assassin) in the battle scenes, but they're mostly well done.
There is a bit of plot-driven ignoring of Joy's brother's revelations about his own TWixt experience, somewhat unbelievable in the face of my own raging curiousity (what about the Carousel DJ?) hopefully we'll get more of that later.
Mostly it's just fun and interesting, a bit of poignant escapist read. Read the first book, first, though.
It's basically Kirsten catnip (only missing some "adult romance" if you know what I mean). Dawn Metcalf does a fabulous job of upping the ante, getting deeper into Joy's world, keeping some of those Ink-and-Joy sensuous scenes where he's learning about being human through touch (conveniently interrupted by brothers and other stuff sadly) and consolidating the fae world of the Twixt.
But besides Joy's troubles now that she's no longer bound to Ink and there's someone sending an unstoppable assassin against her, there's these little moments of real world poignancy and depth that really make this series stand out for me.
Joy is also dealing with a anger against a mother who left their family, and also has a black friend who is in love with a white german guy and uncomfortable with the issues raised by that. There's a moment where Monica sits Joy down and forces her to confront the fact that its easy for Joy to ignore the issues because "you love him and he loves you" because Joy is white.
And there's a moment where Joy, in the midst of her last ditch effort to save her own life in front of the Twixt Council where she has to dress up and notes fleetingly that her feet, spoiled by a summer of flip flops have squished toes in her strappy heels.
It's notes like this that make the fantastic stuff more enjoyable and real-seeming by contrast.
And there's lots of fun fight scenes with Filly the Nordic warrior.
Sometimes I get tangled up (much like Joy and Filly get tangled up in Kestrel's lead line when hunting the assassin) in the battle scenes, but they're mostly well done.
There is a bit of plot-driven ignoring of Joy's brother's revelations about his own TWixt experience, somewhat unbelievable in the face of my own raging curiousity (what about the Carousel DJ?) hopefully we'll get more of that later.
Mostly it's just fun and interesting, a bit of poignant escapist read. Read the first book, first, though.