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A review by tatidengo
Alice Broadway Ink Trilogy Collection 3 Books Set by Alice Broadway
3.0
It's hard to escape tropes in the teen/YA genre (ex: the female protagonist who goes through a rite of passage that ends up signaling her as out as~different~ and ~special~), but I think this book manages to balance its quantity of tropes through its truly unique idea for a story.
The idea of skin books utterly creeped me the hell out at first, but this feeling was followed by an inescapable morbid curiosity, so here we are.
Ink isn't ever gorey or overly graphic. The characters approach the books with a sense of reverence and love for their ancestors. The fact that they're made of skin is just a casual part of life, and it's not too hard to begin to take it in stride as they do.
Leora's struggles raise a lot of moral and philosophical questions, ALL of which we can find equivalent parallels to in real life. So if teachers wanted to use this book in literature classes, there's tons of material to analyze and discuss.
I'm giving it three stars mostly because of the trope thing (it improves about 110 pages in), and because it didn't blow me away. But like I said, the idea is pretty unique and it's worth it if only for that.
The book ends in a semi-cliffhanger and I'm curious enough to maybe pick up the sequel in the future, but unfortunately, I'm seeing a high possibility of even more tropes.
The idea of skin books utterly creeped me the hell out at first, but this feeling was followed by an inescapable morbid curiosity, so here we are.
Ink isn't ever gorey or overly graphic. The characters approach the books with a sense of reverence and love for their ancestors. The fact that they're made of skin is just a casual part of life, and it's not too hard to begin to take it in stride as they do.
Leora's struggles raise a lot of moral and philosophical questions, ALL of which we can find equivalent parallels to in real life. So if teachers wanted to use this book in literature classes, there's tons of material to analyze and discuss.
I'm giving it three stars mostly because of the trope thing (it improves about 110 pages in), and because it didn't blow me away. But like I said, the idea is pretty unique and it's worth it if only for that.
The book ends in a semi-cliffhanger and I'm curious enough to maybe pick up the sequel in the future, but unfortunately, I'm seeing a high possibility of even more tropes.