Review: Necessary AND Nice II
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 11, 2013
This novella takes place beforeInkand reads like a bunch of back-story the author decided she'd rather reveal a little bit at a time.  For this reason even though it chronicles events that take place BEFORE Ink, IMHO it should NOT be read until AFTER reading Ink.But if you are reading The Paper Gods novels, do you absolutely need to read this?In this case, yes.  Though much of this material is gradually revealed in Ink, a couple of very important things are not.  One is the extent of the supernatural compulsion that draws Katie and Tomohiro together, which helps to justify what would otherwise appear to be their astonishing recklessness.The second is the manifestation of Katie's powers long before she ever meets Tomohiro.  She literally shakes the plane she is riding to Japan in (dismissed as turbulence) and appears to trigger a small earth tremor on her first day of school.  Readers will have to wait forRainbefore they can obtain any further information, but this novella establishes at the very least that BOTH main characters possess supernatural powers that can operate independently though close proximity makes them both stronger.