Title: Days of Blood and Starlight
Author: Laini Taylor
Genre: YA fantasy
Review:
Wow, the elegant writing simply swept me away. Laini Taylor has one of the most distinctive writing styles out there, and a very exquisite one at that. Her imagery/ descriptive writing is simply, well, stunning. There are soooo many beautiful quotes/lines in the novel I simply gave up trying to mark them all. I mean, from the first sentence: "Once upon a time an angel and devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two" I was captivated.
The character development was also quite good. Karou, bitter filled she is, must learn to forgive but not forget. She's no longer the innocent child that played with teeth in the devil's lair; she is now the resurrectionist and responsible for raising the dead and ensuring the chimera don't die out. Yet she lives in a world of pain and fear, under the rule of the White Wolf.
I loved Zuzana's levity and she brings a sense of relief to readers after so much depressing (but beautiful) writing. Yes, the chapters told from Karou and Akiva's POV are rather, um, depressing/gloomy/hopeless but damn the writing is still so beautiful (jeez, how many times can I use the word "beautiful" in this review?"
Akiva Akiva Akiva....what a mess you've made! Towards the end of Daughter of Smoke and Bone, I wasn't sure I could forgive Akiva for helping destroy the Chimera race. But now that he's trying to right his wrongs, I'm liking him much more better. He's such a complicated character because he wants to stay loyal to his brothers and sisters, but also to Karou as well. Plus, he has to fight discrimination for being one of the Misbegotten.
The plot! Laini, I hail you as master of creative and fantastical plots! However, I must warn you, although she creates wonderfully intricate plots (she somehow weaves together many "sub plots" into one "major plot"), they are not the most action-packed plots. But her creativity seriously trumps all.
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