St-Ink
Ink
By Amanda Sun
# Pgs: 384
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Overview:
Ink is in their blood.
On the heels of a family tragedy, Katie Greene must move halfway across the world. Stuck with her aunt in Shizuoka, Japan, Katie feels lost. Alone. She doesn't know the language, she can barely hold a pair of chopsticks and she can't seem to get the hang of taking her shoes off whenever she enters a building.
When Katie meets aloof but gorgeous Tomohiro, the star of the school's kendo team, she is intrigued by him…and a little scared. His tough attitude seems meant to keep her at a distance, and when they're near each other, strange things happen. Pens explode. Ink drips from nowhere. And unless Katie is seeing things, drawings come to life.
Somehow Tomo is connected to the kami, powerful ancient beings who once ruled Japan—and as feelings develop between Katie and Tomo, things begin to spiral out of control. The wrong people are starting to ask questions, and if they discover the truth, no one will be safe.
On the heels of a family tragedy, Katie Greene must move halfway across the world. Stuck with her aunt in Shizuoka, Japan, Katie feels lost. Alone. She doesn't know the language, she can barely hold a pair of chopsticks and she can't seem to get the hang of taking her shoes off whenever she enters a building.
When Katie meets aloof but gorgeous Tomohiro, the star of the school's kendo team, she is intrigued by him…and a little scared. His tough attitude seems meant to keep her at a distance, and when they're near each other, strange things happen. Pens explode. Ink drips from nowhere. And unless Katie is seeing things, drawings come to life.
Somehow Tomo is connected to the kami, powerful ancient beings who once ruled Japan—and as feelings develop between Katie and Tomo, things begin to spiral out of control. The wrong people are starting to ask questions, and if they discover the truth, no one will be safe.
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Review:
I'm not going to lie for this one, and I'm going to be blunt.
I had so many problems while reading this, personal or not I'm not quite sure. It's just that this book did not capture anything of my attention. This book was a drag to read, it took me forever to finish it. Everything about this book was so obnoxious it made me noxious. I became seriously concerned at parts that this book would never end.
From the first page of this book I was reminded of a manga or graphic novel, which is not necessarily bad. Except in this case it was. Let me explain; the artwork for mangas are awesome. I don't have a problem with that. It's just that each manga book feels like it's only a chapter of the entire story. You have to keep buying more and more books just so you can see how the "chapter" ends. It kinda bugs me when books are like that. They should just tell me the whole story, and mangas don't. Mangas take forever to go about telling a story. At least, that's what it seems to me. And with this book it just takes forever to get to the point. No one has any idea what's going on. It's confusing, because the author tells this book in a way that's all over the place.
I got about a chapter into this book and it just became such a pain to read. It was a real burdan. To just keep my concentration on this book that'a all over the place, that's majorly confusing, that doesn't get to the point, that has such weak characters... This book is worse than that one book that I couldn't finish reading; Long Lankin. That book was more interesting than this one.
I need to explain to you what I mean by "weak characters", I suppose. Well, it's rather simple. The main character is so pathetic. What's her name... Katie? Katie. The girl is such a stalker! It just pissed (sorry) me off so much! It doesn't make any sense--the other main character, Tomo, goes out of his way to be rude to her and to insult her. Suddenly she's following him around for no reason because she just has to see what he's doing. She just has to know where he's going. She just has to know why she got in a fight with a guy. She just has to know what's up with him, what's up with his pictures, what the other girls mean to him, what he's wearing, why he has scars... She follows him around on a bicycle, at school, joins the same club that he's in, asks everybody questions about his personal life... The entire time he's just sending her signals to get away.
That's not curiosity, that's stalking.
Katie is such a weak character. I don't think I'd have minded the rest of the book if it weren't for the fact that Katie Green was just so disappointing. I understand that her mother just died, but that doesn't explain why she's just so... snobby, conceited, thoughtless, at points just flat rude. And then she doesn't own up to the fact that she actually is being such a snoop, that she is being rude. I get it--she needs to understand just what's going on with their drawings--but it just doesn't make any sense.
The other main character, Tomo, was also disappointing. He was just such this dark, brooding, hot, totally cliche idea of a bad boy. Mysterious, angry, artistically, acedemically, and athletically talented. Tomo was just so cliche, so "perfect" that it wasn't perfect. In fact, it didn't even seem as if the cliche was written right. It was written so poorly that there was nothing particularly memorable about him. I kept forgetting his name or what his importance to the story was. The author had such a round-about way of writing the story that I wasn't even sure exactly what the author was trying to go for. The supposed "romance" between the characters was nonexistant, and then suddenly Katie can't live without Tomo (who by the way, may or may not still love or be attracted to two other women).
The characters and the way the author wrote the story made everything else overwhelmingly flat.
It took me longer to finish reading this book than it took for me to figure out how much I wish I didn't read the book. As my opinion about this book hasn't changed, and I'm still figuring out just how much this book makes me nauseous, then know that I'm still not done reading this book. I just can't read it. I can't get into it. In the end, this book just left me so disappointed. It was a great idea, but it just didn't go anywhere right quickly. There's a difference between a book being boring, uninteresting, and disappointing. Long Lankin was just boring. Ink was all three.
I don't know.
I guess I'm just so hung up over it because it's just so dusappointing to read a book like this. It had such potential... It's sad.
I don't think I'd even rate this. Meaning that (and I know it's not possible, but anything's possible when I'm writing about it) this book is a negative zero divided by the third root of an irrational number. Don't ever make me read this book again.
I don't recommend it.
I had so many problems while reading this, personal or not I'm not quite sure. It's just that this book did not capture anything of my attention. This book was a drag to read, it took me forever to finish it. Everything about this book was so obnoxious it made me noxious. I became seriously concerned at parts that this book would never end.
From the first page of this book I was reminded of a manga or graphic novel, which is not necessarily bad. Except in this case it was. Let me explain; the artwork for mangas are awesome. I don't have a problem with that. It's just that each manga book feels like it's only a chapter of the entire story. You have to keep buying more and more books just so you can see how the "chapter" ends. It kinda bugs me when books are like that. They should just tell me the whole story, and mangas don't. Mangas take forever to go about telling a story. At least, that's what it seems to me. And with this book it just takes forever to get to the point. No one has any idea what's going on. It's confusing, because the author tells this book in a way that's all over the place.
I got about a chapter into this book and it just became such a pain to read. It was a real burdan. To just keep my concentration on this book that'a all over the place, that's majorly confusing, that doesn't get to the point, that has such weak characters... This book is worse than that one book that I couldn't finish reading; Long Lankin. That book was more interesting than this one.
I need to explain to you what I mean by "weak characters", I suppose. Well, it's rather simple. The main character is so pathetic. What's her name... Katie? Katie. The girl is such a stalker! It just pissed (sorry) me off so much! It doesn't make any sense--the other main character, Tomo, goes out of his way to be rude to her and to insult her. Suddenly she's following him around for no reason because she just has to see what he's doing. She just has to know where he's going. She just has to know why she got in a fight with a guy. She just has to know what's up with him, what's up with his pictures, what the other girls mean to him, what he's wearing, why he has scars... She follows him around on a bicycle, at school, joins the same club that he's in, asks everybody questions about his personal life... The entire time he's just sending her signals to get away.
That's not curiosity, that's stalking.
Katie is such a weak character. I don't think I'd have minded the rest of the book if it weren't for the fact that Katie Green was just so disappointing. I understand that her mother just died, but that doesn't explain why she's just so... snobby, conceited, thoughtless, at points just flat rude. And then she doesn't own up to the fact that she actually is being such a snoop, that she is being rude. I get it--she needs to understand just what's going on with their drawings--but it just doesn't make any sense.
The other main character, Tomo, was also disappointing. He was just such this dark, brooding, hot, totally cliche idea of a bad boy. Mysterious, angry, artistically, acedemically, and athletically talented. Tomo was just so cliche, so "perfect" that it wasn't perfect. In fact, it didn't even seem as if the cliche was written right. It was written so poorly that there was nothing particularly memorable about him. I kept forgetting his name or what his importance to the story was. The author had such a round-about way of writing the story that I wasn't even sure exactly what the author was trying to go for. The supposed "romance" between the characters was nonexistant, and then suddenly Katie can't live without Tomo (who by the way, may or may not still love or be attracted to two other women).
The characters and the way the author wrote the story made everything else overwhelmingly flat.
It took me longer to finish reading this book than it took for me to figure out how much I wish I didn't read the book. As my opinion about this book hasn't changed, and I'm still figuring out just how much this book makes me nauseous, then know that I'm still not done reading this book. I just can't read it. I can't get into it. In the end, this book just left me so disappointed. It was a great idea, but it just didn't go anywhere right quickly. There's a difference between a book being boring, uninteresting, and disappointing. Long Lankin was just boring. Ink was all three.
I don't know.
I guess I'm just so hung up over it because it's just so dusappointing to read a book like this. It had such potential... It's sad.
I don't think I'd even rate this. Meaning that (and I know it's not possible, but anything's possible when I'm writing about it) this book is a negative zero divided by the third root of an irrational number. Don't ever make me read this book again.
I don't recommend it.
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