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A review by carmiendo
Ink: The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan
3.0
This book was really similar, style-wise, to Ink. The main difference was that the plot was even less apparent... that's why I gave it only three stars. But even when I was frustrated because I didn't know what was going on or who the characters were (because they changed names and I would sometimes get them confused) or anything, I kept reading it because the prose was all twisty and beautiful.
Here are some random examples that I liked a lot:
"Out in the Hinter, seasons are lands. You live in the yesterdays and tomorrows of desire, the day you lost your virginity or the someday soon you'll win the lottery, the day your team won the cup final or the day before your brother died."
"We are the palimpsest of the past on which you write your present and your future, the substructure of your world revealed by X-rays, microscopes, the focus of photons fired into our depths, the ricochet of bullets of light."
Typing those out, I think maybe I just like run-on sentences? haha
Here are some random examples that I liked a lot:
"Out in the Hinter, seasons are lands. You live in the yesterdays and tomorrows of desire, the day you lost your virginity or the someday soon you'll win the lottery, the day your team won the cup final or the day before your brother died."
"We are the palimpsest of the past on which you write your present and your future, the substructure of your world revealed by X-rays, microscopes, the focus of photons fired into our depths, the ricochet of bullets of light."
Typing those out, I think maybe I just like run-on sentences? haha