Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Jul 24, 2015 Colleen rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, dystopia

The alternate reality created here is amazing - Alexandria library never burned and the printing press was never invented - making books a most precious commodity. Enter in political machinations, tyrannical librarians and anarchist rebels and you've got a really good story. It's shelved as YA, and while the protagonist and his friends are young, it doesn't feel too YA to me.

It took me a bit to find my footing with this book - (other distractions most likely) - but once I settled in, it was a re ...more

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Jul 19, 2017 Ashley Searcy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ya-fiction, 2017-reads, series

3.5 Stars rounded up.

What an interesting take on the love of books.

This book takes place in a world where the Library controls everything and books are precious commodity. Jess Brightwell enters schooling to work for the Great Library of Alexandria at first to be a spy for his father, a book smuggler. Jess soon finds out that the Library is much more than he could have ever imagine and his loyalties will be tested time and time again as he finds out that books and the Great Library is much much ...more

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Aug 24, 2015 Justme rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Why do so many authors feel the necessity to immerse the young in ugliness? At first, I was intrigued & entertained. I had planned to pass it on to my older teen. By the time I finished, I had no intention to do so. While the author is skilled & the story is mesmerizing...it has no value. It will only depress & upset. So, the rating is simply for the author's storytelling ability; no reference to my enjoyment. ...more

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