(I received a free copy of this book in exchange for a review).
(This review may contain spoilers).
Having read part one, I was fairly happy to read part two. Whereas part one was, I felt, more character-driven, this book had a bit more action in it… though there was still a lot about the characters in this, too.
In this part, I felt there was much more depth to Molly. I’m not sure I could say she grew as a character, because I think there was still a lot of immaturity to her, but there was a lot of action as well as her just reacting.
One of the things about this part that I felt worked really well was the fact that Victor pushed Molly in the training. Not enough to be cruel to her, but enough because he wanted to make sure she was safe… even if she was angry with him for it.
I really liked seeing more of Neep in this part and I particularly liked the fact that I learned more about Leena. I wavered quite a bit in how I felt about her during the course of the book, but by the end, I liked her more than I thought I would.
I’m not really sure that the people can claim the gene for violence was bred out of them, considering that a lot of them do seem prepared to train for battle and I’m fairly sure a lot of them aren’t Motley.
I felt a bit more sympathy towards the Prophet in this book. I’m not entirely sure about him, but he also had a bit more depth here.
There were some really quite emotional scenes in this book and even though there were times I didn’t agree with Molly, I could at least understand where she was coming from most of the time. I did enjoy reading this book and it’s interesting to see the contrasts between the two different worlds.
Ink of Blood 