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Title: Not a good sequel
Review: I had read Inkblood and enjoyed it, and of course was interested in Inkspell. However, I was rather disappointed because SPOILER ALERT the plot wound on and became more implausible and impossible, so to "fix" it, or make the plot work (make that to TRY to make the plot work) more and more people can suddenly make things happen by reading and writing. Ie, to resolve conflict and crises, we get someone to read something, or someone to write something...and there was even one point (re the reading of the magic book) where it seemed to me something worked out outside the way the story itself specified as possible (maybe I'm wrong). Also, the way it ends you get the impression its deliberately made to drag on and on...it brings no closure at all and yet there's no feeling of "good, it goes on". If you find it in the library, it would maybe be worth a quick read, but I wouldn't buy it.
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