Ink of Blood

(I received this book for free as part of Goodreads First Reads giveaways).

(This review may contain spoilers).

I’ve read quite a lot of apocalyptic books by now. Even though I felt like I was missing a lot of the story that occurred previously, I still felt this book was quite easy to read. I wasn’t sure of all of the details, but the characters were easy to empathise with and I felt that the relationships came across really well.

It was interesting to see how different people dealt with society’s collapse, even if I wasn’t completely sure exactly what had caused the society to collapse. I really liked Ben as a character, though I felt that he probably cheated death a few too many times. Actually, so did one of the other characters.

The relationships that formed between the characters were really well-written and I particularly liked Lucy as a character, too. She was a really sweet little girl and I was happy to see the way she was looked after by her whole family.

There were quite a lot of awful scenes in this book as well as the sweeter ones. I found it tense enough to keep reading to find out what would happen next, but there is an awful lot of violence in this book… and a lot of characters who really aren’t very nice and who take advantage of the state the world’s in.

But it was good to see there were still nice people in the world, too. I’d probably look at more books by this author at some point in the future.