#Review of Blood, Ink & Fire by Ashley Mansour

Imagine a world without books… In the future, books are a distant memory. The written word has been replaced by an ever-present stream of images known as Verity. In the controlling dominion of the United Vales of Fell, reading is obsolete and forbidden, and readers themselves do not—cannot—exist.
But where others see images in the stream, teenager Noelle Hartley sees words. She’s obsessed with what they mean, where they came from, and why they found her.

Noelle’s been keeping her dangerous fixation with words a secret, but on the night before her seventeenth birthday, a rare interruption in the stream leads her to a mysterious volume linked to an underworld of rebel book lovers known as the Nine of the Rising. With the help of the Risers and the beguiling boy Ledger, Noelle discovers that the words within her are precious clues to the books of the earlier time—and as a child of their bookless age, she might be the world’s last hope of bringing them back.

Blood, Ink & Fire is a gripping, evocative tale that asks, who would we be without books? 

Ashley Mansour is a writer and creator of stories for children and young adults. Before embarking on solo authorship, Ashley spent eight years working in brand management, music, advertising, and entertainment. In that time she traveled the world, working in three different countries with big teams, emerging artists, major brands, and interesting start-ups. In mid-2014, Ashley began a yearlong experiment. She overcame her fear of social media, set up an Instagram profile @ashleymwrites and began sharing her own personal writing journey (pitfalls and all) with readers and writers online. She discovered a community of amazing people who cared deeply about reading and books and about the curious story she was writing that featured a world without both of them. One year later, Ashley s dystopian sci-fi novel for young adults, Blood, Ink & Fire, was complete. Blood, Ink & Fire is a compelling story for anyone who is passionate about literacy and believes in the power of books. A bibliophile at heart, Ashley loves crafting thrilling narratives for young audiences and imagining future worlds where anything is possible. She currently spends her days in Southern California, where she is enjoying being back on home soil and working on her next novel.

This one just didnt work for me. From massive info dumps to inconstant characters this one fell very flat.  It felt more like a draft vs. a polished story. 

The good just didnt out weight the bad.  I really did love all the bookish quotes. 

 Go Into This One Knowing 

almost instal-love romance, inconstant characters, info dumps 

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Posted in: 2 Stars, Jessica P., Netgalley, Review, Young Adult