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Inked
In a world where turning eighteen makes you an adult, Wade Croft has a lot to learn and in her mind, not that much else to lose. It's the beginning of her senior year and all she is planning on is getting out of town. Little does she know what this year has in store for her. Little does she know that being popular isn't always gonna save her.
As she startes to ponder what it means to be an adult and receive her "fated" inking, Wade begins to see the world with different eyes. She begins to do something that she hasn't let herself do in years...feel. But as her feelings get stronger, the irony of her situation gets wackier. She begins to wonder who she pissed off to get the Fates so against her like this. Determined that it is some cosmic joke, she decides to go against the Fates, with little success.
In a world where the Fates rule, she is just a girl trying to survive life and high school. Just trying to make it, so she can get out of town and away from the stigma that she has become. But, she's learning that even though the Fates can be a bitch. They'll still help her find her way and her place in the world, even in McDuffy.
As she startes to ponder what it means to be an adult and receive her "fated" inking, Wade begins to see the world with different eyes. She begins to do something that she hasn't let herself do in years...feel. But as her feelings get stronger, the irony of her situation gets wackier. She begins to wonder who she pissed off to get the Fates so against her like this. Determined that it is some cosmic joke, she decides to go against the Fates, with little success.
In a world where the Fates rule, she is just a girl trying to survive life and high school. Just trying to make it, so she can get out of town and away from the stigma that she has become. But, she's learning that even though the Fates can be a bitch. They'll still help her find her way and her place in the world, even in McDuffy.
309 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 13, 2018
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June 11, 2018
Do yourself a favour and read Inked.
I cannot recommend this book any more highly. JET MacLeod has written a masterful lesbian novel. The main characters had just a pinch of uber fanfic to them, without the usual hair or eye colour silliness. The story and writing are beautiful. There are some very minor typos, but such is life. The Fated Saga should be out of this world judging by book one. I loved every minute that I spent reading it.
I cannot recommend this book any more highly. JET MacLeod has written a masterful lesbian novel. The main characters had just a pinch of uber fanfic to them, without the usual hair or eye colour silliness. The story and writing are beautiful. There are some very minor typos, but such is life. The Fated Saga should be out of this world judging by book one. I loved every minute that I spent reading it.
July 1, 2018
Emancipated from her parents after they throw her out when she comes home pregnant, Wade is determined to make it through high school and beyond on her own, even after she loses the baby. In her world, so different from and so similar to our own, the godly Fates bestow the name of each person's Significant or true love on their 18th birthday. The name is given through a tattoo inking, thus the title of the book.
In the fall of her senior year on her 18th birthday, Wade learns that her Significant is Miranda, a classmate who stole her boyfriend, Luke, from her. When the two are paired for a class project, they begin to learn more about one another. Miranda is determined to stick with Wade, despite the many times Wade tries to push her away. And, fearing that Miranda will not feel good about Wade's inking, she refuses to tell Miranda that she's been chosen as her Significant.
This is the author's first book, with a promise that this world will continue into a series. The world building is interesting, although at times silly (using rhymed names for colleges to replace Yale and Dartmouth). The biggest problems with the book have to do with the numerous copyediting issues that crop out throughout (a good copy editor would have done this book a world of good), and a bothersome shifting of POV, even getting us into the heads of minor characters.
I hope this author will spend some resources on a good editor for the books that follow. She's onto something decent, but it needs to get better.
In the fall of her senior year on her 18th birthday, Wade learns that her Significant is Miranda, a classmate who stole her boyfriend, Luke, from her. When the two are paired for a class project, they begin to learn more about one another. Miranda is determined to stick with Wade, despite the many times Wade tries to push her away. And, fearing that Miranda will not feel good about Wade's inking, she refuses to tell Miranda that she's been chosen as her Significant.
This is the author's first book, with a promise that this world will continue into a series. The world building is interesting, although at times silly (using rhymed names for colleges to replace Yale and Dartmouth). The biggest problems with the book have to do with the numerous copyediting issues that crop out throughout (a good copy editor would have done this book a world of good), and a bothersome shifting of POV, even getting us into the heads of minor characters.
I hope this author will spend some resources on a good editor for the books that follow. She's onto something decent, but it needs to get better.
May 14, 2018
I really liked the romance aspects of this novel. The idea of having your true love's name appear on your skin as though it had been tattooed is a great idea for any number of dystopia thrillers (e.g. the jealous lover whose name did not end up on their infatuation's belly goes off to seek revenge on the person who did., etc. etc.) But wait! That is not this book. This is just a romance. And... I liked it well enough.
Negatives: I felt that the author manipulated the characters to make them do things according to the author's timeline and not so much what I imagined the actual character would do (if that makes any sense at all). The world for this story seems as though it is supposed to be totally different than ours, however, it feels like it is just our world except the names have been changed. That would have been OK, I guess, but then there is all this religious stuff that seemed more or less like real life religious stuff and the way the various religions were brought up it began to bring in all the xenophobic(?) baggage of religions, specifically real life religions - which felt like ice water on a fiery romance.
Negatives: I felt that the author manipulated the characters to make them do things according to the author's timeline and not so much what I imagined the actual character would do (if that makes any sense at all). The world for this story seems as though it is supposed to be totally different than ours, however, it feels like it is just our world except the names have been changed. That would have been OK, I guess, but then there is all this religious stuff that seemed more or less like real life religious stuff and the way the various religions were brought up it began to bring in all the xenophobic(?) baggage of religions, specifically real life religions - which felt like ice water on a fiery romance.
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