Sunday, April 7, 2013

Days of Blood and Starlight (Laini Taylor)


Title: Days of Blood and Starlight
Author: Laini Taylor
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Length: 517
Rating: 5/5

In this sequel to Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Karou has finally learned who she really is. But this revelation and the betrayal it exposes shatters her world. To avenge her people, Karou is pulled into a deadly war between angels and demons that has been raging on for centuries.

This book is both stunningly gorgeous and terribly tragic. I had the pleasure of meeting author Laini Taylor at a book signing, where she admitted that it took her a while to realize that this book had a completely different tone from the Daughter of Smoke and Bone, the tone of a war book.



This isn’t the magical, romantic world of Prague any more. Karou teams up with the monsters, but still struggles to find the clear line between good and evil, while the reader roots for it to never exist, because we love characters on both sides of the war. We get the same struggle from Karou’s angel, Akiva, and I loved seeing the world from his point of view.

The book was just so beautiful, and so well-written, and I’m so upset I have to wait for the third book in the trilogy to come out. Until then, all I can do is hope that Karou and Akiva can find some sort of peace, because I’ve come to love them and all their friends so much!

You can find a great interview with Laini Taylor here.  

2 comments:

  1. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Daughter of Smoke and Bone. I got Days of Blood and Starlight the day it came out, but still haven't read it. I'm a little afraid to. You know? Also, I'm digging the pink wig, Emily!

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  2. Thanks Hannah! I put off reading this one too because I just knew it was going to be so tragic!

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