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A review by beytwice
Dark Ink by Gary Kemble
1.0
The more the story of Dark Ink unraveled to me, the less I started to like it. The supernatural element it starts off with seems initially promising, with a female villain to the bar as well, so to begin with I was intrigued despite my difficulties with not having read the first book in the series. Dark Ink works as a stand-alone but I would advise reading both (that’s a lie, I wouldn’t recommend this one at all) to get a clearer picture of the characters’ histories.
It is in the details that I was lost on this one: victims of sexual abuse get turned into monsters of their own making multiple times (three out of the four main abuse victims proceed to reciprocate that abuse to others, with the fourth manipulated into committing crimes as well) just painting an awful picture of all involved. Speaking of sexual, this book is EXCEEDINGLY so and very rarely works in its favour. The majority of chapters have a sexual scene of sorts for no real gain. The characters were shallow and unlikeable to me and the ending disappointing, too.
It is in the details that I was lost on this one: victims of sexual abuse get turned into monsters of their own making multiple times (three out of the four main abuse victims proceed to reciprocate that abuse to others, with the fourth manipulated into committing crimes as well) just painting an awful picture of all involved. Speaking of sexual, this book is EXCEEDINGLY so and very rarely works in its favour. The majority of chapters have a sexual scene of sorts for no real gain. The characters were shallow and unlikeable to me and the ending disappointing, too.