Ink Blood Sister Scribe: the Sunday Times bestselling edge-of-your-seat fantasy thriller

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The fantastical elements really reminded me why I, as a reader, enjoy books so much in the first place. Ink Blood Sister Scribe was selected as a Good Morning America Book Club pick, and I think that sums it up perfectly: it's a low fantasy for the GMA crowd. He is the only living Scribe his uncle is grateful to use him and allow him to create new spells, which they can sell and profit from.

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Whereas Esther is free to roam the world as she pleases, but never being able to stay in one place for long brings its loneliness too as she eventually has to leave the ones she gets attached to behind. I struggled to connect with Joanna’s POV the most as I found her chapters a bit dull compared to the others. But when all three of these characters discover hidden secrets that redefine their lives, they're thrown together on an unexpected and emotional journey.This is dark academia story, part gothic horror and part fantastical magical adventure, with the almost required secret and sinister organization behind it all and young scholars determined to overturn the evil orthodoxy.

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Because of myself and my audience, I have to mention the biggest surprise of this book: its Jewishness. In the great tradition of Ninth House, The Magicians, and Practical Magic, this is a suspenseful and richly atmospheric novel that draws readers into a vast world filled with mystery and magic, romance, and intrigue—and marks the debut of an extraordinary new voice in speculative fiction. They’d both been hidden in the many layers required to board the plane—wool hat, huge orange parka, gloves, clompy insulated boots, dark-lensed goggles pushed up on their heads—and Esther had gotten only the briefest impression of sparkly eyes and a full-throated laugh before the group was ushered onto the plane and she and Pearl were seated on opposite ends of the cargo hold.

However, where our story begins Joanna and Esther have been separated for several years with hardly any contact with one another. He's been giving his blood, sweat, and tears (quite literally) to the Library since he was a child, creating new magical books. She doesn't seem able to read spells or even able to affect magic, so she wasn't ever involved with maintaining the spell books. Her fiction has been honored with an NEA fellowship in prose, a World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction, and an O. Abe was on his back, eyes half-opened to that gray sky, mouth slack and his tongue drying blue, one of his hands with its quick-bitten nails draped across his stomach.