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3.5 

Ink

By Jonathan Maberry
Ink by Jonathan Maberry digital book - Fable

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From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes a standalone supernatural thriller Ink, about a memory thief who feeds on the most precious of dreams.

Tattoo-artist Patty Cakes has her dead daughter’s face tattooed on the back of her hand. Day by day it begins to fade, taking with it all of Patty’s memories of her daughter. All she’s left with is the certain knowledge she has forgotten her lost child. The awareness of that loss is tearing her apart.

Monk Addison is a private investigator whose skin is covered with the tattooed faces of murder victims. He is a predator who hunts for killers, and the ghosts of all of those dead people haunt his life. Some of those faces have begun to fade, too, destroying the very souls of the dead.

All through the town of Pine Deep people are having their most precious memories stolen. The monster seems to target the lonely, the disenfranchised, the people who need memories to anchor them to this world.

Something is out there. Something cruel and evil is feeding on the memories, erasing them from the hearts and minds of people like Patty and Monk and others.

Ink is the story of a few lonely, damaged people hunting for a memory thief. When all you have are memories, there is no greater horror than forgetting.

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3.5
“That was the problem . . . the hunger was always there now. Always. It no longer faded like it used to. There were none of the gaps of months, or weeks, or even days anymore. The hunger was massive and it followed him and owned him. He had to feed it. There was no option B. He fed it because he must. Our villian is hungry. But he's not hungry for a sandwich or half a pizza or your love. No, our villian is hungry for the memories associated with tattoos. And he's going to use flies (yes, like the little insects that vomit on your picnic food). He's not feeding on the fun memories like the time you were a total badass and got a dime-sized daisy tattooed on your foot during a girls trip to Phoenix. He wants the ones full of pain and heartbreak and degradation and hardship. The very things you had to get through to get to where you are. He's going to take the tattoo, and with it, he's going to take every memory you associated with it, as if those things never happened at all. 'Now, you'd think that having the bad stuff suddenly gone would make her happy, but it didn't.' 'No,' said Crow, 'it wouldn't. Those kinds of memories are a measuring tape for the distance traveled. they remind us about what the world tried to make us and who we built ourselves to be. Oh, and he's going to get sexual gratification from these memories, too. While this sounds like a relatively straightforward storyline - super evil and pervy dude who must be stopped - it was a bit more complicated than that. But I'm not sure it needed to be. The chapters are short, usually only a few pages. They shift so quickly that it's almost jarring until you get used to it. Usually, the characters change in each chapter. There are common threads between the events, but it still feels a little disjointed. It's bouncing all over the place. We have some current day. Some backstories. A whole bunch of characters that take a while to keep straight. And a lot of masturbating. I had a hard time wanting to pick this up, and it took me way longer than necessary to finish it. I can't say why, however. I was interested in the story. I liked the characters. There was nothing wrong with the writing. Both the writing and the story felt very Stephen King or Chuck Wendig-ish. I'm going to chalk it up to partly being a me issue because I'd usually enjoy this more than I did. The story definitely picks up in the last 75 pages or so. Up until that point there wasn't a lot of action and sometimes the details or events seemed unnecessary (for example, Monk and ...like why? Unless they are going to reappear in a future book?). But that last bit was really, really good. The action is exciting and appropriately graphic and gave me a bit of an adrenaline rush because of all these badass characters that I was FINALLY growing to like. And then it ended. Oh, and the actual conclusion of the bad guy felt...rushed and underwhelming. I may pick up the Pine Deep series that tells the story of the heavily alluded to Trouble (I could not stop thinking about "the Troubles" in the show Haven - one of my favs - every time I read this). I'm curious about what went down during that time. And I really liked Crow. And Mike. Trigger Warnings: 3.5 Stars”

About Jonathan Maberry

JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times bestselling and five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author. His V-Wars series has been adapted by Netflix, and his work for Marvel Comics includes The Punisher, Wolverine, DoomWar, Marvel Zombie Return and Black Panther. His Joe Ledger series has been optioned for television.

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