(I received a free copy of this book in exchange for a review).
(This review may contain spoilers).
I did find this book to be a bit difficult to read. Although it was mostly well-written, I found the different first-person perspectives to be quite distracting and they changed so much, it was hard to fully relate to any of the characters. Although they were interesting, I did find it difficult to empathise with any of them.
The relationships were interesting ones, but the amount of love triangles did make my head spin a bit. I felt the author did a good job of showing the conflicts in the 1212 portion of the story, but it didn’t feel as strong with Alisha’s story.
I wasn’t expecting this book to be as dark as it was. It was interesting to see the parallels between the two different storylines, but I was a bit disappointed as to the explanation of the parallels.
This book was mostly well-written, with only a few errors that I noticed. I did also spot the barefoot thing, but it wasn’t made as big a deal as it was in the other book. It was also good to see a reference to the events of the other book, too.
I think I would have been able to connect better to the characters if there’d been less first-person POVs. I felt some of those weren’t necessary to include and it did make it hard to connect with them. I’m not sure I’d read this book again, but I found it interesting and entertaining to read the first time.
Ink of Blood 