I was a bit hesitant about buying this book, since even though my sister sent me the link and said, ‘I think this might be something you’d like,’ it was a bit more expensive for a book that was only 100 pages (more of a novella), and there were quite a few mixed reviews about it. But then I bought several books for my KIndle, and that included this book.
I did think that there was a lot of potential to this book. The cover was very striking, and the blurb sounded really intriguing.
Unfortunately, it was really hard to care about all of the characters except for Cat, who was the narrator. For most of the book, it felt like the events were happening in a dream…like it wasn’t really very real. Apart from Cat, the only character who had any real development was the ghost herself…who I felt sorry for the more I learned about her fate and how long she’d been waiting for, with the only company being of the sacrificed girls who wouldn’t be able to keep her warm for very long.
It did seem a bit much that all it took was Talia going to investigate a strange noise for Lin to start talking about horror movie cliches. Sometimes fourth wall breaks work, but this book wasn’t one of those times. And the random insertion about Cat being bisexual came completely out of left field, because the only time it was even mentioned was Lin saying it was why she’d be one of the first killed. Up until that point, it had just been made clear that she had romantic history with…well, all three of the guys in the group.
This book definitely could have done with being longer, allowing for the characters to be more developed. There was a lot of potential…and I did think that the scenes with Cat and the ghost were suitably creepy. I just wish that the other characters had been developed enough so that I’d actually care about what happened to them.
Ink of Blood 