A review by meliemelo
Ink: The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan
3.0
It's hard to tell when exactly "ambitious" turned to "possibly pretentious", when I went from "this is Complicated but Complicated is Nice" to "mmmmmh yeah maybe that could have been shortened a bit because I'm not even really enjoying myself at that point".
There's still a lot of brilliance in this book, some amazing ideas, and the convoluted writing is nice... until it gets too convoluted. I really wanted to love it, to devour it from beginning to end... but even said end didn't fully satisfy me, and I nearly wish I hadn't gone through my big re-read of the first one to get to this one, so that I'd stayed on my first impressions.
I don't know. I guess it just lost its magic for me.
There's still a lot of brilliance in this book, some amazing ideas, and the convoluted writing is nice... until it gets too convoluted. I really wanted to love it, to devour it from beginning to end... but even said end didn't fully satisfy me, and I nearly wish I hadn't gone through my big re-read of the first one to get to this one, so that I'd stayed on my first impressions.
I don't know. I guess it just lost its magic for me.