Indelible (Twixt)
Like most girls, Joy thought love would steal her breath away. Little did she suspect that it would try to cut her eye out instead! Indelible Ink and his sister, Invisible Inq, are Scribes, otherworldly beings who mark humans with the Sight for their particular clans. Joy has the dubious honor of being able to see them, while nobody else can. Now she has been marked by Ink, and their connection is much more than skin deep. Joy is being pulled between her world and Ink’s realm of Twixt, and their love may not be powerful enough to overcome the threats that stand in their way. Metcalf’s lush descriptions make the world of Twixt burst with sensory details, and readers will identify with Joy’s head-in-the-clouds reaction to Ink’s intoxicating effects. First in a new series, this will appeal to romance and fantasy readers who prefer their attraction peppered with mysterious lore. Give this one to readers who couldn’t get enough of Karou and Akiva in Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone (2011). Grades 10-12. --Erin Downey Howerton