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bridgetott 's review for:
The Weight of Ink
by Rachel Kadish
I really enjoyed this book overall! The plot was rich and all of the plot twists in part five made me gasp. However, it did not receive a full 5 stars for several reasons:
• It was too long. I normally don’t have an issue with long books, but there were several sections of this book that seemed irrelevant and could have been taken out. This includes the Helen-Dror, Aaron-Marisa, and Aaron-Bridgette romances. I also thought the Mary-Thomas romance was given too much time. Obviously Esther needed to meet “Thomas Farrow” but I did not care about his relationship with Mary.
• It drove me nuts that two of the Jewish surnames were Levy and HaLevy. I kept waiting for the plot twist where we’d learn that they were related but it never happened. There are plenty of Jewish surnames to choose from, so being redundant seemed weird to me.
• Helen and Aaron are historians, yet they didn’t draw the connection that Aaron was SCRIBING for Helen in the same way that Esther was SCRIBING for Rabbi HaCoen Mendes ?!?!?!?!?!
Despite it faults, the depiction of Esther as a learned Jew and a woman in the late 1600s was beautiful. I cherish my own Jewish education and at times I felt a kindred spirit with her. The Weight of Ink is heavy, but it’s worth carrying.
• It was too long. I normally don’t have an issue with long books, but there were several sections of this book that seemed irrelevant and could have been taken out. This includes the Helen-Dror, Aaron-Marisa, and Aaron-Bridgette romances. I also thought the Mary-Thomas romance was given too much time. Obviously Esther needed to meet “Thomas Farrow” but I did not care about his relationship with Mary.
• It drove me nuts that two of the Jewish surnames were Levy and HaLevy. I kept waiting for the plot twist where we’d learn that they were related but it never happened. There are plenty of Jewish surnames to choose from, so being redundant seemed weird to me.
• Helen and Aaron are historians, yet they didn’t draw the connection that Aaron was SCRIBING for Helen in the same way that Esther was SCRIBING for Rabbi HaCoen Mendes ?!?!?!?!?!
Despite it faults, the depiction of Esther as a learned Jew and a woman in the late 1600s was beautiful. I cherish my own Jewish education and at times I felt a kindred spirit with her. The Weight of Ink is heavy, but it’s worth carrying.