(I received a free copy of this book in exchange for a review).
(This review may contain spoilers).
I would ideally give this book 2.5 stars if I could give half stars. I found this book somewhat difficult to get into, even though the blurb and front cover of the book were both really intriguing.
I felt that a lot of the issues I had with this book came from the fact I felt that, although a lot of research had clearly gone into this, there was too much info-dumping. Dialogue’s good, but there was much more of it than the action.
The characters were interesting, though there were a couple of things I noticed, such as the spelling of Abbey’s name changing from Abby. There were also a couple of observations made by the characters that didn’t really sit right with me.
I felt that Abbey’s background was quite an interesting one and although I felt that she came across as a little too much ‘centre of attention’, I would have liked to see a bit more of her as a character.
I felt there was too much of the book focused on the technological aspects of the dig. I felt that the mystery parts didn’t work as well as they could have done, mainly because there seemed to be so much dialogue and explanations of things going on.
I felt that this book might have been better if the dialogue had been condensed further down and some of the characters further expanded. I would have liked to know more of the backgrounds of other characters.
I’m not sure if I would read other books by this author. I would have to judge them on a book-by-book basis.
Ink of Blood 