Floating Ink: Echo on the Water by James Livingood

           I enjoy alien invasions.  There are so many ways to pull it off and usually they're executed very well.  The author stated the reader range is age 12-18, but I think it should be geared towards younger readers.  This is Floating Ink by James Livingood.

     The world is under attack.  The Xenophan have watched earth for years, waiting for the perfect time to intervene and help us be the best they can be.  Have they?  

      Young Ruth is enticed by the offers of the Xenophan, but she can also see right through them.  A gift from the Xenophan that's backfired...     I have to first say, this book has an amazing cover!  The depiction of the aliens is near exact to what the author described.  It's covers like this draw me in.  It's eye-candy.

     Sadly, this story was all over the place and very hard to understand.  Ruth starts off speaking as though she's a Queen.  I'm thinking the girl (I couldn't quite tell what age she was)  was enjoying dreams of grandeur when the floating ink creatures attacked.  But it was never stated.  Then things take a turn, where I can't quite say I understand what happened.  And why did the Xenophan's have to obtain our planetary money to start up corporate businesses?  Especially when they ran the world anyway- I was just confused.

     I originally purchased the audiobook, but it was so bad I returned it and purchased the ebook, thinking I must have missed something.  I walked away from this book terribly confused.  

     I don't know what to really say about Floating Ink.  It's definitely a different sort of tale, but not one that held my interest.  You may enjoy it though, so check it out from either Audible.com or Amazon.com.
I"m off to the next read!