Amazing

I honestly believe this will become one of the most important works of the genre.

Difficult, but rewarding. Needs to be read a couple of times to get the hang of the narrative and once you do the depth and scale of the story will sweep you away. I wouldn't recommend this for anyone looking for a light read, but if you want something truly original, challenging and wish to venture away from the standard tropes of fantasy/sci-fi, this is the book for you.

First off, yes i struggled through this book and yes i finished it. When i test out authors i usually suffer threw a few of their books before i make a decision - this one i'm good after one. Too much time jumping. The characters are intriguing and barable. But you never get into the book cause almost every other paragraph your taken to some other point in time. Wonderful idea but very badly done. Choppy at best, I would not recommend this book to anyone with out a bottle of advil to go alone with it. To fully understand everything in this book at best you would have to read it two times, and once was too much for me. The only reason i rated this book at all is because i liked his orginal ideas concerning his character.

Very interesting ideas, but quite hard going. You almost have to read it in one sitting (which is tough, because it's quite thick) in order to get the hang of it.

It was an interesting read but very difficult to make sense of. The writing style was different; I didn't mind it but it certainly wouldn't appeal to everyone.

Hal Duncan set his sights high for his first book. Vellum is ambitious, and an intriguing idea... and he missed the mark badly. Halfway through, the book jumps several chapters ahead in the story with no explanation and suddenly, you're reading a whole new novel and wondering just what the hell happened. It's a bad jolt, and by the time you get to the second book in the story "Ink," It's just not worth the confusion anymore.

Truly hard to understand, but fantastic idea.

Vellum and Ink only make sense if you read both of them together. They're a very, uh, challenging read, but oh so worth it in the end.

Not the typical Sci-Fi book... I doubt most would like the flow, but I really did for some reason.

I loved the complexity of this book. The tales of the Gods and the unkin and how everything starts to draw toghether... and is then blown apart again. All the different Jacks and Toms started to get confusing though, and just when did Puck grow horns and wings?? But, in all I really enjoyed this aternative (and, I suppose) somewhat expirmental style of writing. I shall definately read the sequeal 'Ink' at some point.